LIV Golf adds The Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain to 2023 schedule

LIV Golf is taking over a Tucson-area golf course the PGA Tour used to call home for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championships.

LIV said it would play at The Gallery at Dove Mountain. The three-day, 54-hole (LIV is 54 in roman numerals), shotgun start-style event will be held March 17-19.

Henrik Stenson, now part of the LIV roster, won the inaugural Match Play event in 2007. Tiger Woods won in 2008 before the tournament left for a Jack Nicklaus design.

Also on the schedule is the Old White course at The Greenbrier in West Virginia, which held a PGA Tour event from 2010 to 2019 until it was moved to the fall and shortly thereafter ended its contract. It will be played Aug. 4-6.

Phil Mickelson, a chief recruiter for LIV Golf, and Bubba Watson have had property at The Greenbrier. The last two winners at The Greenbrier, Joaquin Niemann in 2019 and Kevin Na in 2018, are now part of LIV Golf.

Cedar Ridge in the suburbs of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will host a LIV Golf event on May 12-14, the same week the PGA Tour is about five hours away in the Dallas area for the AT&T Byron Nelson.

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That will give Tulsa three tournaments in three years — the Senior PGA Championship in 2021 and the PGA Championship this year, both at Southern Hills. Cedar Ridge, highly regarded in the state, had the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open won by Jan Stephenson, and an LPGA Tour event from 2004 to 2009.

LIV Golf previously announced tournaments at Mayakoba (Feb. 24-26), which for more than a decade was an increasingly popular PGA Tour stop; The Grange in Adelaide, Australia (April 21-23); Singapore (April 28-30); and Valderrama in Spain (June 30-July 2), long a European tour stop.

The PGA Tour has revamped its schedule to offer $20 million purses at “elevated events,” and LIV Golf has stayed away from those in choosing its dates.

Mayakoba will be opposite the Honda Classic, while the Arizona event will be opposite the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida. The Greenbrier will be the same week as the Wyndham Championship, the final regular-season event on the PGA Tour.

LIV Golf said its 48-man league (12 teams with four players) will be announced in 2023, when the total prize fund will be $405 million.

LIV Golf will be the second high-level professional golf tournament in the Old Pueblo in March, along with the PGA Champions Tour’s Cologuard Classic from March 3-5.