Madrid opts to incorporate itself into LIV Golf

The city of Madrid is opting to enter the LIV Golf calendar for next season, encouraged by the popularity of golf in the Spanish capital and the possibility of alternating with Valderrama, which signed five tournaments with the Saudi Arabian Public Fund (PIF) with the clause that they could skip two years until 2029.

Liv, future

The tournament would be held in the spring and responds to LIV Golf’s desire to look for large cities so that the public comes as it already does, for example, in Adelaide, which is the paradigm of what the circuit that Jon Rahm joined last November is looking for.

To this end, the CEO of the Circuit, Greg Norman, has travelled to Madrid to meet with the city’s officials and see if it is possible to immediately incorporate it into the calendar. In fact, this is not the only option he is considering in Europe, as he arrived in Madrid from Paris where he had lunch with the president of the French Golf Federation, Pascal Grizot.

France and Spain host the two oldest tournaments on the European continent. Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain; it is the second most populous municipality in the European Union, after Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the sixth most populous in Europe after Moscow, Istanbul, London, the Ruhr and Paris: the municipal area extends over a total of 604.3 km² while the population of the municipality is 3,280,782 inhabitants[9], but the population of the metropolitan area (urban agglomeration and metropolitan suburban) is in fact calculated at 7.5 million.

In addition to being the capital of the country, it is also the seat of government and residence of the Spanish monarch, and is the political center of Spain; the Madrid conurbation is the fourth largest in the European Union in terms of GDP, and its influence in politics, education, science and the arts contributes to its status as one of the world’s leading global cities; due to its economic performance, high standard of living and the size of…