{"id":861380,"date":"2026-08-17T13:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:54:26","slug":"2026-liv-golf-indianapolis-preview-all-the-info-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/861380\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 LIV Golf Indianapolis preview: All the info you need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tEverything you need to know about LIV Golf Indianapolis, which will almost certainly be the final event of the 2026 LIV Golf season.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf heads to Indianapolis this week for what is now expected to be the final event of its 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s planned season-ending Team Championship in Michigan has not been formally cancelled, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-michigan-event-cancelled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports suggest it will not go ahead<\/a>, with a number of LIV players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-players-enter-british-masters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already committing to alternative tournaments<\/a> that week. The official LIV Golf schedule still lists the Michigan event for August 27-30, but Indianapolis now looks increasingly likely to be the last time we see the league in action this year.<\/p>\n<p>That makes this a particularly significant week for a league already facing plenty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-major-changes-2027\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uncertainty about its future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis returns to The Club at Chatham Hills for the second successive year, with players set to compete over four rounds for the individual and team titles.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis details<\/p>\n<p>Dates: August 20-23, 2026<br \/>Venue: The Club at Chatham Hills, Westfield, Indiana<br \/>Course: Par 70 \u2013 7,273 yards<br \/>Format: 72-hole stroke play with no cut<br \/>Individual purse: $20 million ($4m winner\u2019s share)<br \/>Team purse: $10 million ($3m winner\u2019s share)<br \/>Favorites: Joaquin Niemann (7\/1), Bryson DeChambeau (7\/1), Jon Rahm (15\/2), Tyrrell Hatton (9\/1), Lucas Herbert (12\/1)<br \/>2025 champion: Sebastian Munoz<br \/>2025 team champion: Torque GC<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 event will be the second LIV tournament staged at Chatham Hills after Sebastian Munoz beat Jon Rahm in a playoff to win last year\u2019s inaugural LIV Golf Indianapolis event. Munoz\u2019s Torque GC also won the team competition.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s tournament will be played over 72 holes, with LIV having moved from its traditional 54-hole format to four-round tournaments in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis field<\/p>\n<p>The full LIV Golf Indianapolis field is still to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis tee times<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s when each round will get underway at Chatham Hills, with times shown in the US Eastern Time Zone and UK time.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Friday<\/p>\n<p>12.15pm (ET)<\/p>\n<p>5.15pm (BST)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<\/p>\n<p>11.15am (ET)<\/p>\n<p>4.15pm (BST)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday<\/p>\n<p>LIV uses a shotgun start, meaning all 18 groups will begin simultaneously from different holes on the course.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis TV coverage<\/p>\n<p>In the US, LIV Golf Indianapolis will be shown on Fox Sports, with the first round available via the Fox Sports App before the second, third, and fourth rounds are shown on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, the 2026 LIV Golf season is being broadcast live by TNT Sports, with coverage also available through its streaming platform. All 14 events were included in the broadcaster\u2019s deal.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis prize money<\/p>\n<p>The individual winner in Indianapolis will collect $4 million from the $20 million individual purse.<\/p>\n<p>LIV\u2019s 2026 format changes have also increased the team prize fund to $10 million per event, double the $5 million available in previous seasons. An additional $2.3 million per event is available to players from the three highest-finishing teams through LIV\u2019s new individual performance pool.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the individual prize-money breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>POSITIONEARNINGS1$4,000,0002$2,250,0003$1,500,0004$1,000,0005$800,0006$700,0007$600,0008$525,0009$450,00010$415,00011$380,00012$360,00013$340,00014$320,00015$300,00016$285,00017$270,00018$260,00019$250,00020$240,00021$230,00022$220,00023$210,00024$200,00025$195,00026$190,00027$185,00028$180,00029$175,00030$170,00031$165,00032$160,00033$155,00034$150,00035$147,50036$145,00037$142,50038$140,00039$137,50040$135,00041$132,50042$130,00043$129,00044$128,00045$127,00046$126,00047$50,00048$50,00049$50,00050$50,00051$50,00052$50,00053$50,00054$50,000<\/p>\n<p>And here is the team prize-money breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>POSITIONEARNINGS1$3,000,0002$1,500,0003$900,0004$700,0005$650,0006$600,0007$550,0008$500,0009$450,00010$400,00011$300,00012$250,00013$200,000What is at stake in Indianapolis?<\/p>\n<p>This is no longer the winner-takes-all Individual Championship finale that LIV Golf had originally planned.<\/p>\n<p>Rahm has already secured the 2026 Individual Championship, meaning the biggest individual season-long prize has been decided before the field arrives in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>There is still plenty to play for, however.<\/p>\n<p>The $4 million tournament winner\u2019s prize remains up for grabs, while players will also be competing for team prize money and points.<\/p>\n<p>And with the future of LIV Golf itself under the microscope, Indianapolis could prove to be a rather more important tournament than anyone expected when the 2026 schedule was first announced.<\/p>\n<p>The league has already announced plans for a significantly reworked 2027 product, while the loss of Saudi backing and uncertainty surrounding several high-profile players has raised fresh questions about what comes next.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, all eyes turn to Chatham Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything you need to know about LIV Golf Indianapolis, which will almost certainly be the final event of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-861380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}