2025 LIV Golf League
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The 2025 LIV Golf League was the fourth season of LIV Golf. The season consisted of 54-hole tournaments, featuring 54 players and no cut, with a team championship event at the season end.
Joaquín Niemann (5)
Jon Rahm| Duration | 6 February 2025 – 24 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Number of official events | 14 |
| Most wins | Joaquín Niemann (5) |
| Individual points list | Jon Rahm |
| Team champions | Legion XIII |
| Money list | Jon Rahm |
| Most Valuable Player | Joaquín Niemann |
| Breakout Star of the Year | David Puig |
← 2024 2026 → | |
Player movements
From the end of the 2024 season until the beginning of the 2025 season saw numerous changes to team rosters.[citation needed]
Free agents
Players who declined their contract extensions, along with those who finished in places 25–48 of the individual standings, also called the Open Zone, whose contracts expired after the season became free agents and could negotiate with any team. Free agents were not guaranteed to be signed and may have lost their playing privileges in 2025 if they were not signed. The following table lists players who became free agents.
Relegated players
Players who finished in places 49th and below and were not team captains, were relegated from the LIV Golf League and could not be signed by another team unless they earned their way back into the 2025 season through the LIV Golf Promotions event. If a team captain was relegated, then he needed to make a business case to LIV Golf in order to return.[5]
The following table lists players who were relegated after the 2024 season.
| Player | 2024 Team | 2024 Finish |
2025 Status |
|---|---|---|---|
 Kalle Samooja |
Cleeks GC | 49th | None |
 Scott Vincent |
Iron Heads GC | 50th | None |
 Branden Grace |
Stingers GC | 51st | Signed[a] |
 Laurie Canter |
Wild card | 52nd[b] | None |
 Bubba Watson |
RangeGoats GC | 53rd | Signed |
| Kieran Vincent |
Legion XIII GC | 54th | None |
| Hudson Swafford |
Wild card | 55th | None |
| Anthony Kim |
Wild card | 56th | Signed |
Promoted players
| Player | 2024 Tour | Qualification method | 2025 Team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Lee Chieh-po |
Asian Tour | LIV Golf Promotions | None[c] | [8] |
Newly signed players
In addition to qualifying for the 2025 season through the International Series or via the LIV Golf Promotions event, players who have not played for LIV Golf could join the 2025 season by signing with the league or with a team.
| Player | 2024 Tour | 2025 Team | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
 Ben Campbell | Asian Tour | Range Goats GC | [9] |
 Jang Yu-bin | Korean Tour | Iron Heads GC | [10] |
 Frederik Kjettrup | PGA Tour Americas | Cleeks GC | [11] |
| Luis Masaveu | N/A (amateur) | Fireballs GC | [12] |
 Tom McKibbin | European Tour | Legion XIII | [13] |
Departures
The following players (full-time/wildcard only) were no longer with LIV Golf after the conclusion of the 2024 season:
- Hudson Swafford departed from LIV Golf as a wildcard after his contract was not renewed.[14]
- Laurie Canter departed LIV Golf after his two-event wildcard contract ended in 2024 and returned to the European Tour full time.[15]
Mid-season transfers
| Player | From | To | Details | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luis Masaveu | Fireballs GC | n/a | End of contract | [16] |
| José Luis Ballester | n/a (amateur) | Fireballs GC | New signing | [16] |
Rosters
Wild cards
In addition to the teams, in order to make tournament fields up to 54 players, there were two wild card spots available. Anthony Kim, who played as a wild card in 2024, was retained for 2025 and joined by LIV Golf Promotions winner Lee Chieh-po.[7]
Reserve players
In January 2025, 2024 Asian Tour Order of Merit winner John Catlin confirmed that he would continue to serve as a reserve in the case of withdrawals and other absences.[29] Former amateur world number one Ollie Schniederjans, who finished fourth in the promotions event, also announced that he would act as a reserve.[30] Also retained as reserves were Wade Ormsby; continuing his role from the previous season, Kalle Samooja, who was relegated at the end of 2024, and Saudi Arabian Khalid Attieh.[31]
Schniederjans substituted for Hy Flyers captain Phil Mickelson in the opening event of the season in Riyadh. Also out injured at the start of the season was the Iron Heads' Jinichiro Kozuma; Ormsby substituted for him in Riyadh and his home event in Adelaide, with Schniederjans standing in in Hong Kong; before the fourth event in Singapore, a shootout was held between the four main reserves, with Catlin winning the spot.[22] Korean Song Young-han was added to the roster to substitute for Kozuma in Miami.[23]
The Range Goats Ben Campbell withdrew after the first round in Mexico with a wrist injury, and was replaced by Catlin for the remainder of the tournament. The following week in South Korea, Kim Min-kyu was added to the roster to substitute for him.[32] Having been replaced in the Fireballs lineup by José Luis Ballester before the Virginia event, Luis Masaveu ended up continuing with the team as a substitute for teammate David Puig; during the event, the Range Goats Matthew Wolff withdrew, with Schniederjans substituting for him. At the following event in Dallas, Schniederjans again substituted for Wolff, Max Rottluff substituted for Frederik Kjettrup on the Cleeks, and midway through the first round Brooks Koepka withdrew with an illness and was replaced by Luis Carrera.[17] Wolff remained sidelined in Andalucía, where Masaveu substituted. There were no substitutes required at the final three events of the season.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2025 season.[33][34][35]
| Date | Tournament | Host country | Purse (US$) | Individual winner[r] | Winning team | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Team | ||||||
| 8 Feb | LIV Golf Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 |  Adrian Meronk (1) | Legion XIII | |
| 16 Feb | LIV Golf Adelaide | Australia | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Joaquín Niemann (3) | Fireballs GC | |
| 9 Mar | LIV Golf Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Sergio García (2) | Fireballs GC | |
| 16 Mar | LIV Golf Singapore | Singapore | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Joaquín Niemann (4) | Fireballs GC | |
| 6 Apr | LIV Golf Miami | United States | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 |  Marc Leishman (1) | Ripper GC | |
| 27 Apr | LIV Golf Mexico City | Mexico | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Joaquín Niemann (5) | Legion XIII | New tournament |
| 4 May | LIV Golf Korea | South Korea | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Bryson DeChambeau (3) | Crushers GC | New tournament |
| 8 Jun | LIV Golf Virginia | United States | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Joaquín Niemann (6) | Crushers GC | |
| 29 Jun | LIV Golf Dallas | United States | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Patrick Reed (1) | Crushers GC | |
| 13 Jul | LIV Golf Andalucía | Spain | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Talor Gooch (4) | Legion XIII | |
| 27 Jul | LIV Golf UK | United Kingdom | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Joaquín Niemann (7) | Legion XIII | |
| 10 Aug | LIV Golf Chicago | United States | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 | Dean Burmester (2) | Stinger GC | |
| 17 Aug | LIV Golf Indianapolis | United States | 20,000,000 | 5,000,000 |  Sebastián Muñoz (1) | Torque GC | New tournament |
| 24 Aug | LIV Team Championship Michigan | United States | n/a | 50,000,000 | n/a | Legion XIII | Team Championship |
Points list
Individual points list
The individual points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[36][37]
| Position | Player | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jon Rahm | Legion XIII | 226.16 |
| 2 | Joaquín Niemann | Torque GC | 223.68 |
| 3 | Bryson DeChambeau | Crushers GC | 144.74 |
| 4 | Sebastián Muñoz | Torque GC | 133.06 |
| 5 | Dean Burmester | Stinger GC | 117.25 |
Team points list
The team points list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated using a points-based system.[36][38]
| Position | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legion XIII | −20 |
| 2 | Crushers GC | −20 |
| 3 | Stinger GC | −12 |
| 4 | Smash GC | −18 |
| 5 | HyFlyers GC | −14 |
Money list
The money list was based on prize money won during the season, calculated in U.S. dollars.[39]
| Position | Player | Prize money ($) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Bonus | Total | ||
| 1 | Jon Rahm |
13,608,791 | 18,000,000 | 31,608,791 |
| 2 | Joaquín Niemann |
22,222,762 | 8,000,000 | 30,222,762 |
| 3 | Bryson DeChambeau |
10,334,560 | 4,000,000 | 14,334,560 |
| 4 | Dean Burmester |
9,828,958 | 9,828,958 | |
| 5 | Sebastián Muñoz |
9,727,953 | 9,727,953 | |
Awards
Notes
- Canter only played the opening two events as a wild card in 2024 before being replaced by Anthony Kim.
- Masaveu sustituted for Puig in Virginia.
- The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of LIV Golf League events they had won up to and including that tournament.