{"id":19704,"date":"2025-08-08T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/liv-golf-eliminates-goodbye-and-adds-a-play-in-match-for-the-team-finale\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T21:16:50","slug":"liv-golf-eliminates-goodbye-and-adds-a-play-in-match-for-the-team-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/liv-golf-eliminates-goodbye-and-adds-a-play-in-match-for-the-team-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Liv Golf eliminates goodbye and adds a play-in match for the team finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The LIV Golf League will change the format of the season-ending team championship, eliminating the first round by top seed, and adding two lowest seed play-in matches.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will take place at the team championships this season, scheduled for August 22-24 at St. John&#8217;s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ll see some teams being knocked out that you might not expect,&#8221; said Ripper GC captain Cameron Smith, who won last year&#8217;s team title.<\/p>\n<p>After the LIV Golf Tournament held in Westfield, Indiana, August 15-17, the teams 12th and 13th in points rank will face off in play-in matches.<\/p>\n<p>The team that scores two points wins the match and advances to the quarterfinals. The lost team will be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>All golfers from the remaining 12 teams will compete in the game play on Friday and Saturday and in the stroke play finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More pressure,&#8221; said Crushers GC captain Bryson Deccanbeau. &#8220;Everyday is even more important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LIV Golf League will change the format of the season-ending team championship, eliminating the first round by top seed, and adding two lowest seed play-in matches. The changes will take place at the team championships this season, scheduled for August 22-24 at St. John&#8217;s Resort in Plymouth, Michigan. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ll see some teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-19704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}