LIV Golf announced its 12 rosters of four-players teams for the upstart league's second season Monday night, making official the reported signings of Thomas Pieters, Danny Lee, Dean Burmester and Brendan Steele.
Lee, from New Zealand, will be on Iron Heads, captained by Kevin Na. Burmester filled out the all-South African team, Stinger, led by Louis Oosthuizen.
One team will feature three co-captains. Majesticks has Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood of England and Henrik Stenson of Sweden working together, with the roster rounded out by Englishman Sam Horsfield. Players who finished in the top 24 of the 2022 Invitational Series were guaranteed spots for the 2023 LIV Golf League, according to a press release. American Sihwan Kim earned a spot for winning the Asian Tour Order of Merit, and Zimbabwe's Scott Vincent did the same by winning the Asian Tour International Series Order of Merit.
The league continues to be a source of controversy in the game of golf, both for its upheaval of the ecosystem of the PGA Tour and international circuits, and for its use of Saudi Arabia's sovereign fund money, which critics have called an attempt to "sportswash" the kingdom's poor human rights record.
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