LIV, 2025 Opening Night Game

LIV, 2025 Opening Night Game

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LIV Golf is taking on another challenge of the night game.

LIV announced on its official website that it will play the opening game of the 2025 season, the Riyadh Games in Saudi Arabia, which will open on March 6, as a night game. As a result, the opening game of the 2025 season, which was scheduled to start on the afternoon of the 6th, has been changed to early morning on the 7th.

U.S. media outlets such as Golf Week and Sports Illustrated analyzed that the game time has been changed as Fox Sports broadcasted LIV to the U.S. starting this year. The fact that it is not easy for U.S. golf fans to watch the game in real time as the game held during the day in Riyadh local time is held at dawn in the U.S. greatly affected the change of game time.

The game starts at 6:15 p.m. in Riyadh and starts at 10:15 a.m. in the U.S. Eastern Time. Viewers in the U.S. can now watch the games more comfortably, but Korea has turned the other way. The fact that the broadcast time does not overlap with the WM Phoenix Open of the PGA Tour, which will take place during the same period, is analyzed as the reason why LIV chose the game at night.

The European Ladies Professional Golf Tour (LET) will host the Omega Dubai Moonlight Classic in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2020, making night golf matches that avoid hot days no stranger to the Middle East. Golf Week said, "Night golf has become common in the past 10 years in the Middle East," adding, "LIV has started its third season and is about to make a new attempt to play under the lights." 안전놀이터