LIV Golf schedule: When is next event of controversial tour?

Golf’s newest - and most controversial - tour, the LIV Golf Series, is up and running.

South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel won the first event of the LIV Golf Invitational series, banking a cheque for £3.8million at the Centurion Club, Hertfordshire (Kieran Cleeves/PA)

The Saudi-backed venture has lured the likes of Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to play, with further names confirmed for future competitions including Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Reed.

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman claimed that “free agency has finally come to golf,” but the PGA Tour reacted by sending out a notification that all players taking part in LIV Golf events are being suspended.

In any case, amid rule changes, a team event and a three-day fight to win instead of across four and a weekend cut, the LIV Golf era is up and running and the big prizes on offer will be dealt out soon.

Charl Schwartzel of South Africa took home the first winner’s cheque for £3.85m after triumphing at the first event at the Centurion Club outside of London.

Here’s everything you need to know about golf’s newest tour.

Reports of a new breakaway league first emerged in 2019 but gathered pace last year as two-time Open champion Greg Norman became the face of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series as its chief executive.

With Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund financing the series, there is a clear link to the Saudi Arabia government, whose record on human rights has been criticised by groups such as Amnesty International.

But what for a long time was considered to be a bargaining threat to the traditional PGA and DP World Tours and nothing more took shape as the LIV Golf Series, which also features new competition rules and what tournament organisers say is an “exciting” new