FULL LIST: The 42 players confirmed for LIV Golf Invitational Series includes EIGHT from Mzansi!

The field for the first LIV Golf Invitational Series event has finally been released – and there are some major surprises.

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Dustin Johnson is in. Sergio Garcia is in. And for now, 40 others.

A list of 42 players was announced on Tuesday – notably six shy of the promised 48 players for the event – just eight days before the first round of the event, which will take place at Centurion Club outside of London.

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It is the first of eight LIV events scheduled for 2022, five in the United States and three international, which will compete both directly and indirectly with the PGA Tour. 

The event will move forward starting Tuesday next week, with 12 captains selecting players in a snake-style draft.

Wednesday will feature a pro-am, with the first of three rounds beginning with a shotgun start on Thursday afternoon, the first day open to spectators.

The event will conclude on Saturday 11 June.

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The event will offer a purse of $25 million (R390 million), $20 million of which will be awarded for individual performances ($4 million for the winner), and the remaining being dished out among the top three teams. The last-place finisher will earn $120 000 (R1.88 million). 

The 42 names included no fewer than EIGHT South Africans, most notably Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel.

The other six are Oliver Bekker, Hennie du Plessis, Branden Grace, Justin Harding, Shaun Norris and JC Ritchie.

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LIV GOLF INVITATIONAL SERIES FIELD