LIV Golf to tee off 2025 season in Saudi Arabia

The third full season of LIV Golf will kick off in February 2025 with a series of global events starting in Saudi Arabia. (LIV Golf)
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Updated 04 September 2024
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LIV Golf to tee off 2025 season in Saudi Arabia

  • Riyadh, Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore to host first 4 events of the league’s third full season

RIYADH: LIV Golf has announced that the league will launch its third full season in February 2025, teeing off in marquee global markets across Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

Fans can sign up to LIV X for free to receive exclusive access to tickets, including pre-sale information on hospitality and grounds passes for events featuring team and individual competitions, live music and activities for all ages.

“As we set our sights on 2025, LIV Golf is gearing up for our most ambitious season start, to date,” said LIV Golf Commissioner and CEO Greg Norman.

He said that since the tournament’s debut in 2022, LIV Golf has played 34 tournaments in nine different countries across four continents.

“We are a global league with a global footprint, and we’re excited to kick off next season with four truly international events that will deliver our unique blend of elite golf, entertainment and culture to fans around the world.”

The league will begin the 2025 season Feb. 6 to 8 with LIV Golf Riyadh, marking its debut in Saudi Arabia’s capital city.

The Riyadh Golf Club venue will host events including the Aramco Team Series, the Saudi Open presented by the PIF, and the PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers in December.

From Feb. 14 to 16, the league will return to The Grange Golf Club for LIV Golf Adelaide, reigning winner of the World’s Best Golf Event at the World Golf Awards.

This past April, the tournament welcomed more than 94,000 fans to the South Australia venue which reset the bar for LIV Golf fandom across the three days.

The event saw the return of the popular Watering Hole on the par-3 No. 12, had a standout performance by individual champion Brendan Steele, and played host to the league’s first team playoff, won by the all-Australian Ripper GC and captain Cam Smith.

Two weeks after Adelaide, the league will have its second consecutive year of competition at Hong Kong Golf Club from March 7 to 9.

Annual host to some of the region’s most prestigious golf events for the last 60 years, Hong Kong Golf Club will be a challenging test for the sport’s biggest stars, including defending individual champion Abraham Ancer as well as team champions Crushers GC and captain Bryson DeChambeau.

The following week, from March 14 to 16, LIV Golf will return to Sentosa Golf Club for the third consecutive year of LIV Golf Singapore. The event will have reigning individual champion Brooks Koepka and team champion Ripper GC attempt to defend their titles on the club’s Serapong course, recently voted the World’s Best Golf Course.

LIV Golf’s 2024 regular season concludes next week in Illinois at LIV Golf Chicago, from Sept. 13 to 15 at Bolingbrook Golf Club.

The following week, the 13 teams travel to Texas for the season-ending LIV Golf Dallas Team Championship, from Sept. 20 to 22 at Maridoe Golf Club.


Medvedev to face Griekspoor in bid for second Dubai title

Updated 28 February 2026
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Medvedev to face Griekspoor in bid for second Dubai title

  • Former world No. 1 Medvedev demolished top seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada in the semifinal
  • Despite an injury, unseeded Dutchman Griekspoor beat 5th-seed Andrey Rublev in the ‌other semifinal

DUBAI: Daniil Medvedev reached the Dubai ‌Tennis Championships final on Friday and will face unseeded Dutchman Tallon Griekspoor as the Russian attempts to achieve something that has eluded him throughout his ​stellar career — winning the same tournament twice.
Former world number one Medvedev demolished top seed Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4 6-2 in an 83-minute semifinal, setting up a title clash that could see him claim a second Dubai crown to go with his 2023 triumph.
Medvedev, who has won 22 titles at 22 different tournaments, arrived in Dubai with a point to prove after ‌early exits in ‌Rotterdam and Doha.
However, the third seed ​has ‌been ⁠in scintillating ​form ⁠in Dubai, dispatching Shang Juncheng, Stan Wawrinka, Jenson Brooksby and Auger-Aliassime — all in straight sets.
“It has been an amazing four matches, probably playing better and better each match, today being the best performance,” said Medvedev.
“If I can put in an even better performance tomorrow, I will have my chances to win and that ⁠is what I am going to try to ‌do.”

Griekspoor battles injury to beat Rublev
Standing ‌in his way will be Griekspoor, ​who continued his giant-killing run ‌by beating fifth seed Andrey Rublev 7-5 7-6(6) in the ‌other semifinal.
The Dutchman denied the 2022 champion, who also finished runner-up the following year, another shot at the Dubai trophy, saving two set points in the second-set tiebreak.
“No idea how I pulled off this one, ‌I could barely walk at the end of the first set,” said Griekspoor, who took ⁠a medical timeout ⁠for treatment in the opening set.
“He served extremely well. I got very lucky in the tiebreak to win it in two sets ... I landed with a serve and felt something in my hamstring.
“If he had won the tiebreak, I don’t know if I would have continued.”
It marked three consecutive top-20 wins for Griekspoor for the first time in his career after he beat second seed Alexander Bublik and Jakub Mensik en route to the final.
Griekspoor, who has won three ATP 250 ​titles in his career, will ​be looking to add a first ATP 500 trophy to his collection when he faces Medvedev.