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On hiatus since 2019, the PDGA relaunched a new version of the Official Disc Golf World Rankings on February 21, 2024 . The 2024 relaunch utilizes a new calculation system devised by the PDGA team in collaboration with Mark Broadie and Dylan Bierne of SportEdge . Broadie was a developer of the current formula utilized in the Official World Golf Rankings which are used by professional golf tours around the world, including the PGA Tour.

Each Official Disc Golf World Rankings update will be calculated based on event results over the previous 104 weeks, with most recent performances given a higher weighted value. Additionally, higher-tier events will carry more value, with PDGA Majors at the top of the scale. The 2024 edition of the rankings will include only Elite Series and PDGA Major event results. Updates can be expected each Wednesday following an Elite event or PDGA Major.

Watch an interview with Mark Broadie, explaining the development of the Official Disc Golf World Rankings. The interview is also available on the PDGA Radio podcast.

The Disc Golf Pro Tour Announces 2022 Schedule

The Disc Golf Pro Tour is pleased to release its 2022 Schedule, all events sanctioned as PDGA Elite Series. The schedule includes a total of 15 events; 12 regular-season events, 2 playoff events, plus the DGPT Championship and adds to the previously announced PDGA Major schedule to create a 20 event pro tour for 2022. The Silver Series will return in a similar fashion to the DGPT, with events on the series offering reduced DGPT points and gaining enhanced media coverage. That schedule is planned to be announced on November 1.

The 2022 schedule is similar to the 2021 version. “This process is always challenging, and we prioritized sustainability and simplicity for 2022 as much of our focus went to securing our partnership and merging the tours successfully with the PDGA,” said Jeff Spring, DGPT CEO & Director. “One focus was working backward to Emporia to allow ease of travel to the PDGA Pro Worlds, which has been scheduled on that date for over 10 months. We wanted to make it easy for players to get there.” 

Former National Tour Events, The Master’s Cup, and the Beaver State Fling are set to be on the Silver Series schedule while discussions continue to include the Music City Open. The Delaware Disc Golf Challenge will not be a DGPT event in 2022 as they look to take a year off from elite competition. The DGPT also plans to head to Europe in 2022, after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the planned debut at the 2021 PCS Sula Open in Norway. Information regarding the European inclusion on the DGPT schedule will be shared when the Silver Series is announced. 

A new addition to the DGPT schedule is a playoff format for the final two events, the Green Mountain Championship, and the MVP Open at Maple Hill. While final details will be announced, these events will stay normal stroke play events but see the field sizes reduced as the Tour blazes a path to the DGPT Championship. “I expect the men’s field to be cut down to around 100 for the GMC and 80 when we get to Maple Hill, and the women’s field to go from 50 to 40.” Said Spring. “This will set the stage for a dramatic weekend in Leicester, MA to determine not only DGPT Points Champions, but the players who will qualify for the Tour Championship.” 

Final details of the new Playoff format changes to the Points Series and updated Tour Standards will be released in the coming months. One change to the Point Series will be the inclusion of the PDGA Majors as points events. “We’re thrilled to include the PDGA majors as heavyweights in the Points Series,” said Spring. “The DGPT standings influence everything on tour, and we are working hard to reformat how all events are weighted to bring a cohesive effort with the PDGA to this new era in disc golf.”

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• Las Vegas Challenge – February 24-27  
• Waco Annual Charity Open – March 11-13
• Texas State Disc Golf Championships – March 25-27
• PDGA Champions Cup  (PDGA Major) – April 13-17
• Jonesboro Open – April 22-24
• Dynamic Discs Open – April 28-May 1
• OTB Open  – May 20-22
• Portland Open – June 3-5
• The Preserve Championship – June 24-26
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• Idlewild Open – July 8-10 
• European Open (PDGA Major) – July 21-24
• Great Lakes Open – July 29-31
• Ledgestone Insurance Open – August 11-14
• Des Moines Challenge – August 19-21 
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• Green Mountain Championship* – September 15-18
• MVP Open at Maple Hill* – September 23-25
• United States Disc Golf Championship (PDGA Major) – October 5-8
• Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship – October 13-16

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PEORIA, Illinois — The 2021 Ledgestone Insurance Open is bigger and better.

Historic big, in fact.

“We have 2,000 participants registered this year, the most ever here for this tournament, and a record as the largest field in the history of the disc golf sport,” said Ledgestone founder and longtime director Nate Heinold. “It’s just massive on a scale hard to imagine. We’re so excited to see the sport thrive like this.”

The Disc Golf Pro Tour’s Ledgestone is bigger than ever in other ways, too. The prize money for the Men’s and Women’s Pro divisions is $130,000 — the biggest purse in the history of the sport.

And the tournament, which has always worked as a fundraiser for local charities, expects to generate a record donation this year.

“We’re looking at raising $150,000 for charities,” Heinold said. “That will be the largest we’ve ever been able to donate.”

Who’s playing in the Ledgestone Insurance Open?

The Pro Men’s and Pro Women’s field is stacked with elite world-ranked players. It includes Ledgestone veteran Paul McBeth, who has $555,000 in career winnings and just finished runnerup in the World Championships at Utah in late June.

James Conrad, who emerged from that tournament as World Champion, is in the Ledgestone field, too.

So is elite world-ranked player Ricky Wysocki ($462,000 in career winnings). And on the women’s side, Catrina Allen and Paige Pierce line up just days after Allen beat Pierce on the final hole for the World Championship.

Wysocki and Allen won the 2020 Ledgestone.

A look back from the basket down a fairway cut into the woods on the Northwood Park Black course in Morton, where pros in the 2021 Ledgestone Insurance Open will be tested.

Where is the Ledgestone Insurance Open played?

The 2021 edition of the event takes part on 12 courses around the Peoria area, but the pros will play on Lake Eureka and Northwood Park in Morton. The Ledgestone has grown to 74 staff members, countless volunteers and 12 courses.

Play will happen at Bradley Park (Peoria), Camp Kearney (Canton), Kennel Lake (Morton), Lake Eureka (Eureka), McNaughton Park (Pekin), Megiddo at Westwood Park (Morton), Northwood Park (Morton), Sunset Hills Disc Golf Course (Pekin), Washington Park (Washington), Wildlife Prairie Park (Hanna City), Illinois Central College (East Peoria).

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New this year is the Northwood Park Black course in Morton. It’s a 10,500-foot course cut into the woods at Morton and designed with U.S. Open style angles and hazards.

“It is, officially, the hardest disc golf course in the world,” Heinold said. “It will challenge the world’s best players.”

Can fans attend the Ledgestone Insurance Open?

The 2020 Ledgestone operated under pandemic conditions, with roped off areas to achieve distancing, masks required and reduced spectators capacity.

But 2021 has no capacity limits or mask requirements for spectators.

“It’s back to a more normal feeling,” Heinold said.

There are various attendance options.

VIP Badge: $95 for the week includes parking, event admission, VIP tent access (food on hand), and a spectator pack that includes GRIPeq G Series bag, a limited edition disc, tournament T-shirt, tournament badge.

Weekly parking pass: $35 allows one person parks free and gets event admission, plus a Ledgestone disc and T-shirt.

Daily parking pass: $10 includes admission on days pro open men or women play at Eureka or Sunset Hills. Not available at Northwood Park

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After career-threatening injury, Pensacola disc golf champ makes triumphant return

Pensacola's Paige Pierce won the Portland Open on Sunday, her first Disc Golf Pro Tour win since suffering a career-threatening ankle injury in Norway in July 2023.

Pierce, the five-time Professional Disc Golf Association World Champion , finished the four-round event with a two-stroke lead over second place finisher Holyn Handley. It was Pierce's first victory since capturing the European Open championship in 2022.

Her next PDGA tournament is June 21-23 at the Preserve Championship in Clearwater, Minnesota. Pierce had previously won the Portland Open, a Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite+ event, in 2019 and 2021.

Afterward, an emotional Paige reflected on her once uncertain future after breaking her left ankle in three places while practicing before the European Open championship last year. Some had questioned if she would ever be able to play again.

Pierce told the Disc Golf Network following Sunday's final round that winning "is definitely icing on the cake for sure. Just being back and feeling confident again and stepping up to a tee pad and knowing where my disc is going to go, that's the more exciting part. It's more about the confidence that this is going to give me moving forward. It's so much bigger than a tournament."

In October, Pierce still had her left ankle wrapped and had only recently had a cast removed when she appeared as a guest at the Pensacola Urban Disc Golf Tournament in downtown Pensacola. Friends and Pensacola disc golfers have followed and supported Pierce throughout her recovery.

On Monday morning, during a layover at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on route home to Pensacola, Pierce recalled the ominous warnings her surgeon revealed to her following her injury.

"I was told there was a tiny chance that I might not walk again,'' Pierce said. "Hearing that was like a ton of bricks, but my doctor was optimistic. Still, that was one of the possible outcomes."

Pierce, a Texas native, had recently moved to Pensacola with now-wife Allyssa Van Lanen when the injury to her left ankle occurred. Her surgery was performed at the renowned Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze. She underwent lengthy rehabilitation at PT Solutions in Pensacola.

"I was fortunate that we had moved to Pensacola and had such a great place like (the Andrews Institute). There were so many emotions during the healing process. I was finally able to walk again and put weight on it. But I had to wonder if my body was going to reject the new metal in my body." (She has two metal plates and 12 screws in her ankle). I was wondering how quickly I would be able to play disc golf. My surgeon told me that full recovery would take up to a year."

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Less than a year later, she's a champion again.

"It's such a relief,'' she said. "I don't even know how to explain it."

The cold gets to her though and she tends to get stiff when the temperature drops.

Some mornings, she said she feels she needs WD‒40 for her metal pieces.

Her Pensacola fans were excited to see her at top form again.

"We could see how hard she worked," said Mike Osley, retail manager at the Flight Factory disc golf store in Pensacola. "She was going through physical therapy and playing a lot, really working on her game. That's what champions do. She doesn't have that gene where she gives up. She's a fighter and it was apparent this weekend."

This article originally appeared on Pensacola News Journal: Pensacola's Paige Pierce wins Portland Open disc golf championship

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October 25, 2023: The Disc Golf Pro Tour (DGPT), the official Pro Tour of the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA), is thrilled to announce a new agreement with the European Pro Tour (EPT) to create a singular unified European tour called DGPT Europe. PDGA Europe, which has operated the PDGA Euro Tour, is in support of this new partnership.

Under the new agreement, the European Pro Tour has merged with the DGPT, and their leadership team will continue in leadership roles with DGPT Europe. Juha Kytö (former EPT CEO) has been named the DGPT Europe Media Director, and Mikko Wikman (former Tour Director for the EPT) will serve as a DGPT Europe Operations Manager. Additionally, Leiv Aspén (TD of the Krokhol Open), will also join DGPT Europe in a part-time capacity in operations management.

Central to this partnership is the merger of the European Pro Tour's live streaming service, Disc Golf Stream, with the DGPT's Disc Golf Network. Disc Golf Stream will undergo a subscriber migration with the Disc Golf Network this off-season, and DGN will host all 2024 live broadcasts.

The PDGA Euro Tour , which is the professional competition arm of PDGA Europe , will pause its independent PDGA Euro Tour Open Divisions series, opting instead to support DGPT Europe. This collaboration is intended to develop support similar to that provided by the Global and U.S. PDGA Operations and Logistics team for DGPT events in the United States. DGPT Europe looks forward to exploring how PDGA Europe could extend similar support to DGPT Europe events in their respective countries. 

“We believe that this agreement is the right direction, and we will support it with our expertise for the integral growth of our beloved game in Europe,” said Antti Taronen, PDGA Europe Board of Directors President. 

“We’re excited to continue to work with PDGA Europe in 2024 by expanding and supporting the great effort they have made to take professional disc golf to the next phase in Europe,” said Jeff Spring, DGPT CEO. 

"This collaboration marks the beginning of a new era for professional disc golf in Europe,” continued Spring. “By pooling resources and expertise from several major players in the disc golf community, we aim to deliver an unmatched experience for fans and players alike as the European disc golf market continues to grow and develop. We’re thrilled to bring in the entrepreneurial passion and expertise of Juha, Mikko and Leiv to this new effort. They have helped launch the growth of professional disc golf across the continent and will help lead the continued evolution.”

“The DGPT and the European Pro Tour both originated with a singular vision: elevating professional disc golf. This unification signifies a shared dedication to that foundational goal,” said Juha Kytö, formerly the CEO of EPT and now transitioning to Director of Media for DGPT Europe. “As we unite under this shared goal, we're also merging the vast array of talents and expertise that have been a part of the European Pro Tour, PDGA Euro Tour, and PDGA Majors in Europe. With Mikko Wikman concentrating solely on Operations, I'm thrilled to spearhead our media efforts. Collaborating closely with the seasoned team at Disc Golf Network, I'm eager to pool together European stakeholders to enhance and amplify our media offerings. Fans can anticipate not only a broader range of coverage but also a heightened quality.

The European Pro Tour was funded in part by Prodigy Europe, and their team contributed immensely to the development of the EPT since its inception. Prodigy and the DGPT have also struck a deal as part of this new agreement, and their leadership will continue to advise the DGPT in an effort to see the European market flourish. “ It has been a pleasure to work and plan with Lasse Paju, and we’re excited to have the leadership of him and his team to help guide this new venture, ” said Spring. 

  “I want to thank everyone involved over the last two seasons,” said Lasse Paju, CEO of Prodigy Disc Europe. “Working with such a committed team and outstanding partner network has been rewarding. We're excited about this new collaboration. Together, I'm confident we’ll develop disc golf even faster in Europe.” 

DGPT Europe Starts in 2024 - Everything You Need to Know

In a significant development for professional disc golf, the Disc Golf Pro Tour (DGPT) has joined hands with the European Pro Tour (EPT) to unveil a united European tour for 2024, named DGPT Europe . This unification aims to further enhance professional disc golf in Europe and promises an elevated experience for enthusiasts and players. Read the full announcement here ! 

Q: What does this mean for the European Pro Tour?

A: The European Pro Tour (EPT), a lead competition organizer in Europe, has merged with the DGPT. Leadership from EPT, including Juha Kytö (former CEO) and Mikko Wikman (former Tour Director), will continue in key roles with DGPT Europe as the Media Director and Operations Manager, respectively. 

Q: What’s the role of PDGA Europe in DGPT Europe?

A: The PDGA Euro Tour , which PDGA Europe managed, will pause its independent PDGA Euro Tour Open Divisions series, which was covered by the Disc Golf Network in 2023. Beginning in 2024, they will instead opt to fill a supporting role for DGPT Europe, offering assistance similar to the Global and U.S. PDGA Operations and Logistics teams in the U.S. The DGPT is grateful for PDGA Europe’s continued support and looks forward to a fruitful 2024 season. 

Q: How are the DGPT Europe events classified? 

A: DGPT Europe events will have two standard classifications for the 2024 season. 

• DGPT Europe Standard Events (simply referred to as a “DGPT Europe Events). These are worth 100 points for a win and are sanctioned as PDGA Elite Series.
• DGPT Europe Silver . These are worth 50 points for a win and are sanctioned as PDGA A-tiers. 

Q: How will the points work for DGPT Europe Events? 

A: Here’s how the points standings will work for the DGPT in 2024:

• DGPT will have two point standings next season: DGPT World Standings (which determines spots for the 2024 DGPT Championship) and a separate DGPT Europe points standings.
• There won’t be an independent Tour Championship for DGPT Europe in 2024. Instead, the European points will be used to give bonus payouts and 2025 Tour Cards to top players at the end of the season.
• The five Standard DGPT Europe events (with 100% points weight) will count points for both the DGPT World and European standings and will be broadcast live on the Disc Golf Network.
• The DGPT Europe Silver Events (with 50% points weight) will only add points to the European standings and won't be shown live on the Disc Golf Network.

Q: What’s up with Silver Events in Europe? Didn’t DGPT get rid of the Silver Event designation?

A: DGPT did recently announce the retirement of the Silver Event event class in the U.S., but Europe's a different playground. DGPT Europe is keeping Silver Events on the 2024 calendar to help boost the sport and create a well-rounded tour schedule. Here’s some more info on why and how Silver Events are still being sanctioned in Europe. 

"Having determined that it’s time to set aside Silver Events and shift our focus to developing a qualifying series in the U.S., we recognize that the European market still requires Silver Events to help grow and sustain a balanced Tour. While we expect the European market also to reach a similar point in the future, Silver Events will continue to be a part of DGPT’s growth strategy as they provide additional competition opportunities between standard Tour stops and will allow DGPT Europe to develop more relationships with top-level courses and organizers.” 

• Jeff Spring, DGPT CEO

Q: What about media coverage and streaming?

A: The European Pro Tour owns and operates Disc Golf Stream, which is a live-streaming subscription service similar to the Disc Golf Network. As a part of this unification, Disc Golf Stream will merge with the Disc Golf Network. All current annual Disc Golf Stream subscribers will be transferred to the Disc Golf Network this off-season. Monthly DGS subscribers are recommended to subscribe to DGN and cancel any ongoing DGS subscription.

2024 DGPT events, including the Standard DGPT Events (PDGA Elite Series) in Europe, will be shown LIVE on the Disc Golf Network. DGPT Europe Silver Events won’t receive live coverage. In addition to LIVE coverage, DGPT Europe plans to work with local media entities to provide next-day post-production coverage on YouTube. 

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LIV Golf comes to Houston. What's different about the tour beyond the big names?

RangeGoats, Crushers, Ripper, Fireballs, HyFlyers, Iron Heads. What do these names have to do with professional golf?

Throw in Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson and it becomes clearer.

These are a sampling of the team names and individuals in LIV Golf, which debuted in June 2022. Backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund with at least $2 billion, LIV is coming to the Golf Club of Houston in Humble this week.

This season, 54 players and 13 teams are competing in 14 regular-season events with two titles (individual, team) at stake with a total $405 million to be awarded. The individual winner receives $4 million of the $20 million at each venue and the winning team gets $3 million of the $5 million.

In addition to larger purses, LIV Golf separates itself from traditional golf tours. The format of the livelier LIV is 54 holes, no cuts, and shotgun start.

“A cool thing about LIV, your name is up there if you’re (walking) by a scoreboard and it will say what position you are in individually, but at the bottom it will (read team score),” said Reed, a resident of The Woodlands. “The missing link that you’ve had playing on another tour, some guys would kind of pack it in, focusing on the following week. Out here you are always playing for something. There’s no quit and guys are always grinding.”

The tour is in its second full season. LIV Houston is the series’ eighth tournament this year and first appearance in Texas. A global tour, this year’s international schedule includes stops in Mayakoba (Mexico), Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Andalucia (Spain) and United Kingdom.

Music is a component of LIV Golf events, welcomed by players as well as fans in an effort of attracting a younger fanbase than many other golf circuits. “Golf, but louder” is a slogan the tour embraces.

In Houston, the interactive Fan Village and Birdie Shack off the 16th green will be places fans can gravitate for entertainment and family-friendly experience. The Birdie Shack is the party hole, featuring a disc jockey

“There’s more activities out there, you got music going so you can bring your kids,” Reed said. “It’s not just hey, sit down, be quiet. You can still hold normal conversations and see the fun side (of golf).

“You can hear the music. Fans are going to show up and they’re going to be like, this is completely different and new. Once they come out and see the whole event and experience the whole week, they’re going to love it and I hope they do. We love it the way it is.”

Big-name golfers dot LIV Golf rosters. Names that even casual golf fans are familiar with. Fourteen-major champions are competing. Rahm is in his first season on tour, captaining expansion Legion XIII. Among those joining Rahm, Koepka (Smash), the first player to win four LIV Golf tournaments, DeChambeau (Crushers), Reed (4Aces), Johnson (4Aces) and Mickelson (HyFlyers) are Sergio Garcia (Fireballs), Bubba Watson (RangeGoats), Louis Oosthuizen (Stinger) and Cameron Smith (Ripper).

Talor Gooch (Smash) won the 2023 individual championship. Last year’s team champion Crushers are captained by DeChambeau. Anthony Kim is returning to the city of his last triumph. Kim won the 2010 Houston Open in a one-hole playoff over Vaughn Taylor at Golf Club of Houston. Kim is competing season long as a wild card in pursuit of full-time status after more than a decade-long hiatus in professional golf. He joins Hudson Swafford as the two wild-card players competing against LIV’s 13 four-player teams.

Each of the league’s teams have an identity. All four Rippers are comprised of South Africans. The all-Australian Ripper squad has won the past two tournaments, including their hometown event in Adelaide, where close to 100,000 people attended the three-day event.

“Having that camaraderie, that team aspect is amazing,” Reed said. “The Europeans, they play a lot of team golf growing up. For us, it was high school golf team, college, and then when you got on PGA Tour, there was Presidents Cup, Ryder Cup.

“You didn’t have all this team golf. And those were the events you looked forward to throughout the years and now having that every week is awesome. Having that team aspect is amazing.”

LIV derives its name from the Roman numeral for 54, the total number of holes played in each of its events. The unique tour has not been operating long, but rivalries are already forming.

“You look at Torque, Ripper, and the Crushers. Those are the guys you’re always trying to get after,” said Reed, part of the 4Aces that won the inaugural 2022 team championship. “The South Africans, the Stinger (Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Branden Grace, Dean Burmester), you don’t want to lose to the Stinger because they let you hear it every time. They’re an amazing group of guys and fun to be around, but if you lose to them you hear about it. You try to clip the Stingers as many times as you can.”

There is no shortage of banter among players and fans. It is a good, healthy, friendly exchange. Especially in golf-crazed Australia.

“Go to Australia. Now you’re going into territories, you’re playing against different territories and the crowds get behind those guys,” Reed said. “It’s absolutely insane. When you go to London you have the Majestics (Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Sam Horsfield) and how much the fans are getting behind them. Then you have the crowd. They will heckle each team that comes through or each player that comes through that’s not at home.

“That is something that has been missing in golf, something you see in all the other sports. You have the home teams and away teams. It brings a different dynamic, try to get it a more fun, exciting sport, than just sit there and watch guys hit golf balls.”

Entering Houston, the Crushers (105.50) lead in points, followed by Legion XIII (94) and Ripper (90), which has won each of the past two events. Joaquin Niemann (Torque) leads individually in points (134.40), ahead of Rahm (98.17), the only player who has collected a top-10 finish in all seven events, and third-place Burmester (92.24).  Niemann has finished first twice this year (Mayakoba and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) and Burmester was victorious in Miami. The other tournaments were won by Koepka (Singapore), the Fireballs’ Abraham Ancer (Hong Kong), Johnson (Las Vegas) and the HyFlyers’ Brendan Steele (Adelaide).

Another aspect of LIV is the three-day 54-hole format. When a poor start or bad round could derail golfers of a solid finish.

“If you have nine holes that you are stagnant on, or don’t play that great, basically it shoots you out of the golf tournament,” said Reed, still seeking his first individual title in LIV after winning nine times on the PGA Tour. “So, it’s more of a sprint. You have to be on top of it right out of the gate and get going.”

Reed shared 53rd at 5 under in last month’s PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Through seven events on LIV this year, Reed is 30th in points with one top-10 finish (ninth in Miami).

“My game’s been close, it’s a lot better than it’s showing,” Reed said. “The biggest thing is, if you take care of yourself and play well and get on the podium, that helps the team. With having that team leaderboard, even if you’re not having a good week, you’re always staying in it because you don’t know what can happen toward the end to help the team. Especially now on Sundays counting all four scores. We’re all leaning on each other.”

LIV Houston is a hometown event for Reed, the 2018 Masters champion who has also resided in Spring and Clear Lake, as well as spending a good portion of time in Dallas and San Antonio. As a member of the PGA Tour, Reed played at Golf Club of Houston, site of a PGA Tour event from 2003-2019.

“I’m really looking forward to seeing that golf course how it’s supposed to be played,” Reed said.

On many occasions, the Houston stop came one week before the Masters. The course was set up to resemble conditions at Augusta National, an attempt to luring more of the big-name golfers who would be playing the following week in the PGA Tour’s first major of the season.

“In previous years when the PGA Tour would come here, they would always shave it (making greens fast) and try to change the dynamics of the golf course for Augusta prep,” Reed said. “Now, to show the beauty of that golf course and play it how it normally is with the Bermuda rough and more penalizing if you get into it compared to how it is now.

“The crowds are going to be insane. I’ve been talking to so many people in The Woodlands and they’re all pumped and excited for it. Hopefully, it’s a huge turnout and get that Texas crowd behind us and turn some heads and make some noise.”

In addition to Johnson, Reed’s 4Aces includes Pat Perez and Harold Varner III.

A shotgun start is unique in professional golf. Many recreational golfers are familiar with the concept playing in outings where all players tee off the same time on different holes. LIV Golf sets a faster pace golf tournament. Friday and Saturday’s start at the Golf Club of Houston is 12:15 p.m. Sunday’s final round starts at 12:05 p.m.

“With a shotgun start, there is no such thing as a draw,” Reed said. “Everyone is (playing) on the golf course at the exact same time. You’re not going to have guys who all of a sudden are dealing with weather in the morning and not in the afternoon, and vice versa.

“So, everyone being on the golf course at the exact same time, the guy who wins that week is the guy who is playing the best golf that week, hands down, because everyone is playing at the same time.”