How Did LIV Players Do At The Dubai Desert Classic?

With limited opportunities for players on the European and PGA Tours to go head to head with LIV’s players, the Dubai Desert Classic might tell us something about the relative strength of those tours.

Of the fifteen LIV players teeing it up, Patrick Reed had the best finish, with a solo second behind Rory McIlroy. Reed was, however, embroiled in yet another controversy, this time involving identification of a ball in a tree. LIV’s partisan tweet bots went full-on “whatabout” in return, complaining about a McIlroy drop.

Ian Poulter, Richard Bland and Henrik Stenson finished inside the top ten.

Four LIV players in the top ten, versus eight non-LIV players.

After that, performance drops off quite a bit. Three of the fifteen missed the cut.

The average finish of LIV players was 45. The median was 51. I will leave it to you, gentle reader, to make an assessment of whether that is good, bad or indifferent.

There were 132 players in the Dubai Desert Classic field.

A chart showing LIV player results in the Dubai Desert Classic field are below

Player	Finish
Patrick Reed	2
Ian Poulter	t6
Richard Bland	t8
Henrik Stenson	t8
Pablo Larrazabal	t28
Adrian Otaegui	t28
Hennie Du Plessis	38
Oliver Bekker	t51
Lee Westwood	t51
Justin Harding	t59
Sam Horsfield	t59
Shaun Norris	65
Ross Fisher	MC (88)
Abraham Ancer	MC (88)
JC Ritchie	MC (104)

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