Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy are to deal with Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV 18-hole shootout in Las Vegas later on this year that is being billed as PGA Tour v LIV Golf League compare.

The fourball, two-team match will air on TNT, which relayed the previous 9 editions of ‘The Match’, an exhibit series that began in 2018 with a match in between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and most just recently saw McIlroy handle Max Homa, Rose Zhang and Lexi Thompson in February.

“I’m thrilled to partner with Scottie in what promises to be an exciting duel against Bryson and Brooks in Vegas this December,” McIlroy stated. “This isn’t just a contest between some of golf’s major champions; it’s an event designed to energize the fans. We’re all here to put on a great show and contribute to a goodwill event that brings the best together again.”

McIlroy has actually played in 2 editions of The Match and a variety of other made-for-TV exhibits. Scheffler is making his launching into exhibit golf and is coming off a season in which he won the Olympic gold medal and 7 PGA Tour occasions, consisting of the Masters and the Tour Championship, where he took home the $25m first-place reward for winning the FedEx Cup.

The match comes as the PGA Tour deals with increasing pressure to settle a structure contract of a merger with LIV Golf’s monetary backers, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, which was at first struck in June in 2015, however needs to date revealed no indications of uniting the 2 celebrations.