LIV Golf's 2024 season started Friday, and the upstart golf league includes several prominent new faces, most notably two-time major champion Jon Rahm. The league will also be more widely available for bettors this season compared to when its first event occurred in the summer of 2022.'
In that year, ESPN reported that Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington were the first batch of states to allow sports betting operators to offer odds on LIV events. A BetMGM spokesperson told Friday that it is permitted to offer LIV Golf odds in 16 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico, Ontario, and Washington, D.C.
All told, the states that now allow betting apps to offer LIV Golf odds are:
- Arizona
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Illinois'
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Nevada
- New Mexico'
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wyoming
A BetMGM spokesperson told that requests to offer LIV betting in Pennsylvania and Indiana are pending. DraftKings and FanDuel are among the other operators that offered pre-tournament LIV Golf odds on this week’s season-opening event.'