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PGA Tour and LPGA get together for mixed team as European tour stays in South Africa
The mixed-team event pairs PGA and LPGA players using varied formats, while the European Tour's Alfred Dunhill Championship offers $1.75 million in prize money.
- Friday, the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour stage a mixed-team tournament pairing players with women playing from a different set of tees and using scramble, foursomes, and modified fourballs formats, with defending champions Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit returning.
- Field composition shows strong world-ranked presence from both tours as seven of the 16 PGA Tour players are in the top 50 and the LPGA Tour includes 12 top-50 women, with teams featuring Florida State alum Lottie Woad and Luke Clanton this year.
- Television windows run Friday through Sunday on Golf Channel and NBC, and the mixed-team event offers a $500,000 winner's share per player.
- The Alfred Dunhill Championship at the Royal Johannesburg Club returns to the European Tour schedule with 1.5 million euros prize money and a 250,000 euros winner's share.
- This event is the second of three Sunshine Tour tournaments co-sanctioned by the European Tour, featuring LIV players Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, and Aldrich Potgieter.
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PGA Tour and LPGA get together for mixed team as European tour stays in South Africa
The golf season is winding down after a week of top players competing across three continents. The Grant Thornton Invitational is the mixed team event with PGA and LPGA players.
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