Charley Hull and Justin Rose are to team up in a new mixed team event being staged jointly by the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour in Florida in December.
Staged over three rounds at Tiburón Golf Club in Naples, and with a prize fund of $4m, the Grant Thornton Invitational will involve 16 pairs and will be the first mixed pro event since the JC Penney Classic in 1999.
England’s Melissa Reid and Ireland’s Leona Maguire will also play, as will 2023’s five women’s major champions. Reid will team up with Russell Henley, while his fellow American Lucas Glover will partner Maguire.
The 32-strong field includes 11 major champions and, like Hull and Rose, Swedish pair Madelene Sagstrom and Ludvig Aberg were each on the winning European teams at the Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup this autumn. Other pairings include Rickie Fowler & Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang & Sahith Theegala, and Joel Dahmen & Lilia Vu.
The format will be different for each of the three rounds, with the first round being a Texas Scramble, the second round being foursomes (alternate shot with one ball), and the final round being a modified fourball format where both players tee off, and then they switch balls for their second shots and play that same ball until it is holed.
For the full list of pairings, click here.