LIV Golf LIVE leaderboard: Latest scores and updates from opening event in Mayakoba
Follow live scores and updates as the controversial breakaway competition returns for its second season
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Your support makes all the difference.LIV Golf returns for its second season as the action gets underway at the El Camaleon Golf Course in Mayakoba, Mexico.
The rebel tour caused a stir last year when it controversially broke away from the PGA in golf’s civil war, with the likes of Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Phil Mickelson, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood returning to LIV for the 2023 season.
The likes of Thomas Pieters, Mito Pereira and Sebastian Munoz were added ahead of the second campaign of the Saudi-backed series, after former world No 1 Johnson took home more than $35 million in his debut season, triumphing in the individual and team championships.
There are new teams and new names this time around as LIV Golf returns, but the series is set to be just as controversial as last time out. Follow live scores and updates from the opening event in Mayakoba, below.
LIV Golf - Eight holes to go
Casey sinks a monster putt from maybe 50 feet to take an outright lead at -5.
Smith then makes his move from a much shorter distance, as his birdie putt drops in.
LIV Golf - Eight holes to go
Patrick Reed drops three shots off the pace after a double-bogey seven at the par-5 13th.
LIV Golf - Nine holes to go
Mickelson quickly makes up for a dropped shot with a fourth birdie of the day. DeChambeau also makes the step to -3 with a 15-foot putt at the 8th.
LIV Golf - Nine holes to go
Dustin Johnson rolls in a beauty to move to -3.
Last year’s champion is finding some form.
LIV Golf - Hole Nine
Bryson DeChambeau rattles in a birdie putt to get to -2, where he is joined by Dustin Johnson. Cameron Smith sees a birdie putt slip by, as does Mickelson - who stays ahead in the leading pack on -3.
LIV Golf - Hole Eight
Jason Kokrak rolls in a birdie from the fringes to move to -3, where he is joined by Patrick Reed after a short birdie putt.
LIV Golf - Hole Seven
Well, well. Phil Mickelson rolls in another birdie to move to -3, his third in a row.
Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith - who are playing together - are both now at -1.
LIV Golf - Hole Six
But now Ortiz does roll in a birdie putt - he’s joined for company by Paul Casey.
LIV Golf - Hole Six
Ortiz misses the chance to take the outright lead while Cameron Smith gets back to level par with a birdie at the fifth.
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