Inaugural LIV golf champion Dustin Johnson hits jackpot, receives whopping $18m as prize money

Inaugural LIV golf champion Dustin Johnson hits jackpot, receives whopping $18m as prize money

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The 38-year-old American professional golfer Dustin Johnson has hit the jackpot for sure. Two-time major Champion Johnson has received a windfall worth $18 million after he was announced as the winner of the inaugural LIV Golf Championship.

Johnson has been in the top 10 in five of the six events of the series to date, including the LIV Golf Invitational in Boston in September. The US golfer has 121 points going into the LIV Golf Invitational-Jeddah event this week in Saudi Arabia. He encompasses a 42-point lead over Branden Grace, who had to withdraw from the Jeddah event as a result of injury.

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The winner of the competition gets 40 points so toppling Dustin Johnson from his pole position is just not possible. The individual event of the LIV Golf series will conclude in Jeddah on October 14-16.

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Dustin Johnson
Dustin Johnson

After being crowned as champion, the 38-year-old said: “Locking up the individual competition is big. It’s an honour to be LIV’s first individual season champion.”

Johnson was the foremost vital player LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman signed for the controversial league. He commanded the No.1 world ranking longer than any other player since Tiger Woods and had previously stated that he will not be leaving PGA Tour before backtracking from his statement in June.

“The first chapter of LIV Golf’s history could not be written without Dustin Johnson’s name,” Norman said after Johnson’s win.

“By any measure, Dustin Johnson is among the elite players in the world. From the start, he’s been a LIV Golf cornerstone. He has more than lived up to his billing and he deserves immense credit for clinching LIV’s first individual season title.”

Twenty-five million dollars are allocated to the individual competition at the LIV Golf events, while the winner receives $4 million. Currently, no world ranking points are offered to those who choose to participate in the Saudi-backed league, and LIV golfers are not allowed to take part in PGA Tour.

Following the ultimate individual competition in Jeddah, a season-ending team championship event is going to take place in Miami later in October.

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