2022–23 MENA Tour

2022–23 MENA Tour season

Duration	7 October 2022 (2022-10-07) – 15 October 2023 (2023-10-15)
Number of official events	22
Most wins	Talor Gooch (3) Brooks Koepka (3)
Order of Merit	Brooks Koepka
← 2020–22

The 2022–23 MENA Tour was the 10th and final season of the MENA Tour.

LIV Golf strategic alliance

Following an announcement made in October 2022, the MENA Tour announced that they had entered into a strategic alliance with LIV Golf.[1] This was mainly due to LIV Golf attempting to gain Official World Golf Ranking points for their events by co-sanctioning them with the MENA Tour.[2] The proposals were initially rejected by the OWGR.[3] The first tournament added to the 2022–23 schedule was an event held in Thailand, co-sanctioned by the LIV Golf Invitational Series.[4]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2022–23 season.[5]

Date	Tournament	Host country	Purse (US$)	Winner[a]	OWGR points	Other tours[b]
9 Oct	LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok	Thailand	20,000,000	Eugenio Chacarra (1)	n/a	LIV
16 Oct	LIV Golf Invitational Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	20,000,000	Brooks Koepka (1)	n/a	LIV
30 Nov	Tournament 3	Saudi Arabia	75,000	Bailey Gill (2)	0.44
5 Dec	Tournament 4	Saudi Arabia	75,000	Aron Zemmer (1)	0.44
2 Feb	Egyptian Swing 1	Egypt	75,000	Ben Jones (1)	0.66
7 Feb	Egyptian Swing 2	Egypt	75,000	Brandon Robinson-Thompson (1)	0.64
26 Feb	LIV Golf Mayakoba	Mexico	20,000,000	Charles Howell III (1)	n/a	LIV
19 Mar	LIV Golf Tucson	United States	20,000,000	Danny Lee (1)	n/a	LIV
2 Apr	LIV Golf Orlando	United States	20,000,000	Brooks Koepka (2)	n/a	LIV
13 Apr	Malaysian Swing I	Malaysia	75,000	Joe Heraty (2)	0.52
20 Apr	Malaysian Swing II	Malaysia	75,000	William Harrold (2)	0.55
23 Apr	LIV Golf Adelaide	Australia	20,000,000	Talor Gooch (1)	n/a	LIV
27 Apr	Royal Hua Hin Thailand Championship	Thailand	75,000	Matthew Cheung (1)	1.07
30 Apr	LIV Golf Singapore	Singapore	20,000,000	Talor Gooch (2)	n/a	LIV
14 May	LIV Golf Tulsa	United States	20,000,000	Dustin Johnson (1)	n/a	LIV
28 May	LIV Golf Washington, D.C.	United States	20,000,000	Harold Varner III (1)	n/a	LIV
2 Jul	LIV Golf Andalucía	Spain	20,000,000	Talor Gooch (3)	n/a	LIV
9 Jul	LIV Golf London	England	20,000,000	Cameron Smith (1)	n/a	LIV
6 Aug	LIV Golf Greenbrier	United States	20,000,000	Bryson DeChambeau (1)	n/a	LIV
13 Aug	LIV Golf Bedminster	United States	20,000,000	Cameron Smith (2)	n/a	LIV
24 Sep	LIV Golf Chicago	United States	20,000,000	Bryson DeChambeau (2)	n/a	LIV
15 Oct 5 Nov[c]	LIV Golf Jeddah	Saudi Arabia	20,000,000	Brooks Koepka (3)	n/a	LIV

Order of Merit

The Order of Merit was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[7]

Position	Player	Points
1	Brooks Koepka	18,098,333
2	Talor Gooch	17,784,012
3	Cameron Smith	14,258,917
4	Bryson DeChambeau	13,777,500
5	Patrick Reed	10,223,547

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of MENA Tour events they had won up to and including that tournament.
2. LIV − LIV Golf League.
3. In July 2023, LIV Golf announced that Miami would host the team championship to end the season, and Jeddah would move to the week prior to Miami.[6]

References

1. "MENA Tour Announces Strategic Alliance with LIV Golf". MENA Tour. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
2. Woodard, Adam (5 October 2022). "LIV Golf makes 'strategic alliance' with developmental MENA Tour in effort to gain Official World Golf Ranking points". Golfweek. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
3. Colgan, James (6 October 2022). "OWGR halts LIV Golf's sudden effort to earn world ranking points". Golf.com. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
4. "LIV Golf Invitational Bangkok". MENA Tour. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
5. "Tournaments". MENA Tour. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
6. Harig, Bob (10 July 2023). "LIV Golf Makes Change to Fall Schedule, Will End Season in Miami". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
7. "2022–23 Order of Merit". MENA Tour. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

External links

• Official website