LIV Golf to open 2025 season with unorthodox approach in Saudi Arabia

LIV Golf is going under the lights.

According to LIV Golf’s official website, the season-opening event in Riyadh, scheduled for Feb. 6 to 8, will begin at 6:15 p.m. local time in Saudi Arabia. Given that Riyadh Golf Club is eight hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, LIV Golf officials felt that conducting this event under the lights would help allure American golf fans. American viewers will see LIV Golf’s first tournament of 2025 begin at 10:15 a.m. ET — a much easier wake-up than other tournaments held in the Middle East.

Typically, major events held in Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates begin while most of the

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