The first seven events this year make up what LIV Golf is calling its regular season. How many events are there?Д®ight this year, but plans to expand to 10 next year and even more in subsequent seasons are being drawn up. And while the LIV Golf format might feel unusual for players and viewers, the ultimate goal - circle the 18-hole course in as few shots as possible - is the same. With rare exceptions, PGA Tour events generally consist of four-rounds of stroke play, in which players compete against one another to post the lowest score.

This weekвЂ™s leaderboard, for example, lists individual scores and team affiliations. The team event will see the players drafted by captains into four-man squads (teams with odd names, letвЂ™s be honest, like Fireballs and Majesticks) that will contest a separate competition, and for a separate prize pot, each week. The LIV Golf individual competition will feel, in many ways, like a traditional golf event: three rounds, lowest score wins. With the small field, there is no cut midway through the event to lop off the stragglers, and every round starts with a shotgun start, meaning players tee off from each hole on the course simultaneously and then proceed around the courseвЂ™s layout from there. LIV Golf has set up what are essentially shorter tournaments with smaller fields - three rounds instead of four, and with only 48 players competing instead of the rosters on the PGA Tour, which can be three times as large some weeks - and featuring concurrent individual and team play events. No, IвЂ™m not banned because IвЂ™m not a member of it. That led to the following exchange with a reporter:

вЂњI resigned a week and a half ago,вЂќ he said, вЂњso whatever the PGA Tour says doesnвЂ™t - doesnвЂ™t go with me because IвЂ™m not a member.вЂќ Sergio GarcГa, the Spanish player who had renounced his tour membership when he joined the LIV Golf Series, essentially said he didnвЂ™t care what the PGA Tour did. вЂњIt makes no sense how IвЂ™ve played the game of golf for all this time, IвЂ™ve had two tour cards and the ability to play all over the world,вЂќ Poulter told reporters. Ian Poulter insisted that he and the others in the field had not done anything wrong, and said he would appeal.

Open champion Graeme McDowell said he had expected the punishment, and had already been in contact with lawyers. Phil Mickelson, whose participation has aroused the most interest, refused to comment, and the former U.S.

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