Twice main winner Dustin Johnson received US$18 million after clinching the person title within the LIV Collection with a Sixteenth-place end on the newest occasion in Bangkok, Thailand, the Saudi-backed circuit mentioned on Monday.
The American, 38, shot a five-under-par 67 on Sunday to complete on nine-under par, leaving him with an insurmountable 42-point lead over Branden Grace of South Africa.
Johnson completed within the high 5 in 4 of the earlier 5 occasions, taking dwelling US$4 million for his solely win of the sequence in Boston in September.
“Locking up the person competitors is large. It is an honour to be LIV’s first particular person season champion,” Johnson mentioned.
Patrick Reed, the 2018 Masters winner, sits in third within the general standings whereas British Open champion Cameron Smith is in fourth spot. The runner-up will probably be awarded US$8 million whereas the third-placed participant earns US$4 million.
The person competitors concludes in Jeddah from Oct 14-16 earlier than a remaining crew championship at former US president Donald Trump’s Doral course in Miami.
“The primary chapter of LIV Golf’s historical past couldn’t be written with out Dustin Johnson’s identify,” LIV chief govt Greg Norman mentioned.
“By any measure, DJ is among the many elite gamers on the planet. From the beginning he is been an LIV Golf cornerstone. He has greater than lived as much as his billing and deserves immense credit score.”
LIV Golf has lured away a few of the US-based PGA Tour’s high members with big sums of cash, resulting in a simmering feud between the game’s high gamers and organisers.
LIV tournaments don’t depend in the direction of the world rankings, and gamers who compete within the breakaway sequence have been suspended from the PGA Tour.
The sequence is s bankrolled by the Saudi Arabia Public Funding Fund and critics have accused it of being a car for the nation to try to enhance its popularity within the face of criticism of its human rights file.
