August 23rd, 2025
By Australian Golf Digest
LIV Golf continues to lean all in on making team golf a thing, highlighted this week with the league’s season finale at the Cardinal at St. John’s in Plymouth, Mich. There’s no individual titles on the line, just team bragging rights as all 13 squads compete for an impressive $50 million purse. The winning foursome on Sunday gets to take home a prize money payout of $14 million.
And just how is a team champions crowned? The format for this year’s competition is a little different than year’s past. After Majesticks GC defeated Ironheads GC in Wednesday’s play-in match, six quarterfinal matches will be played on Friday with the winning teams facing off in the semifinal round on Saturday. Those two rounds are contested in match play, with one foursomes alternate-shot match and two singles matches deciding the winning sides. Losing teams also continue to play as they attempt to earn points and help with their overall finish as well.
Come Sunday, the competition returns to stroke play with the three winning semifinals teams vying for the championship title. All four scores count, with the team with the lowest aggregate score being crowned the winner.
Here’s the prize money payout for each team at this week’s event.
Win: $14,000,000 ($8,400,000 team share, $1,400,000 million per player)
2: $8,000,000
3: $6,000,000
4: $4,000,000
5: $3,250,000
6: $3,000,000
7: $2,750,000
8: $2,500,000
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Previous Next Pause Play Save for later Public The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort Plymouth, MI 4.1 10 Panelists The Cardinal is the first public course to open in the Detroit area in over 20 years. Designed by architect Ray Hearn, it replaces Saint John’s early 1980s 27-hole resort course with more spacious and strategically engaging holes that are either brand new or significantly redesigned. The excess holes were removed and transformed, giving Hearn room to add a fun 7-hole short course and large, Himalayas-style putting green. Part of a $50 million-plus renovation of the entire campus, The Cardinal is a much-needed reclamation of a scenic and moving piece of land that tended to get lost under the old design, with a less formal style of bunker and the latitude to explore different avenues into the greens. Though just 20 miles from downtown, the revamped feel of the wooded property whisks players to a place much farther away. View Course
9: $2,000,000
10: $1,650,000
11: $1,300,000
12: $950,000
13: $600,000
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