2025 LIV Golf League

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2025 LIV Golf League season
Duration6 February 2025 (2025-02-06) – TBA
Number of official events14
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The 2025 LIV Golf League will be the fourth season of LIV Golf. The season consists of 54-hole tournaments, featuring 54 players and no cut, with a team championship event at the season end.

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Player movements

From the end of the 2024 season until the beginning of the 2025 season saw numerous changes to team rosters.

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 will become free agents and can negotiate with any team. Free agents are not guaranteed to be signed and may lose their playing privileges in 2025 if they are not signed. The following table lists players who became free agents.

Player2024 Team2024
Finish		2025 TeamRef.
Flag of Spain.svg Eugenio Chacarra Fireballs GC39th [1]

Relegated players

Players who finished in places 49 and below and are not team captains are relegated out of LIV Golf and may not be signed by another team unless they earn their way back into the 2025 season through the LIV Golf Promotions event. If a team captain is relegated, then he must make a business case to LIV Golf in order to return. [2]

The following table lists players who were relegated after the 2024 season.

Player2024 Team2024
Finish		2025 Status
Flag of Finland.svg Kalle Samooja Cleeks GC49th
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Scott Vincent Iron Heads GC50th
Flag of South Africa.svg Branden Grace Stingers GC51st
Flag of the United States.svg Bubba Watson RangeGoats GC53rd
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg Kieran Vincent Legion XIII GC54th

Departures

The following players (full-time/wildcard only) are no longer with LIV Golf after the conclusion of the 2024 season:

Rosters

TeamMembers
Captain(s)Player 2Player 3Player 4Substitute players
4Aces GC Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Reed Flag of the United States.svg Harold Varner III Flag of the United States.svg Pat Perez
Cleeks GC Flag of Germany.svg Martin Kaymer Flag of England.svg Richard Bland Flag of Poland.svg Adrian Meronk
Crushers GC [3] Flag of the United States.svg Bryson DeChambeau Flag of England.svg Paul Casey Flag of the United States.svg Charles Howell III Flag of India.svg Anirban Lahiri
Fireballs GC Flag of Spain.svg Sergio García Flag of Mexico.svg Abraham Ancer Flag of Spain.svg David Puig
HyFlyers GC Flag of the United States.svg Phil Mickelson Flag of the United States.svg Cameron Tringale Flag of the United States.svg Brendan Steele Flag of the United States.svg Andy Ogletree
Iron Heads GC Flag of the United States.svg Kevin Na Flag of New Zealand.svg Danny Lee Flag of Japan.svg Jinichiro Kozuma
Legion XIII Flag of Spain.svg Jon Rahm Flag of England.svg Tyrrell Hatton Flag of the United States.svg Caleb Surratt
Majesticks GC [a] Flag of England.svg Ian Poulter, Flag of England.svg Lee Westwood, Flag of Sweden.svg Henrik Stenson Flag of England.svg Sam Horsfield
RangeGoats GC Flag of the United States.svg Matthew Wolff Flag of the United States.svg Peter Uihlein Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Thomas Pieters
Ripper GC [5] Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cameron Smith Flag of Australia (converted).svg Marc Leishman Flag of Australia (converted).svg Matt Jones Flag of Australia (converted).svg Lucas Herbert
Smash GC Flag of the United States.svg Brooks Koepka Flag of the United States.svg Jason Kokrak Flag of the United States.svg Talor Gooch Ulster Banner.svg Graeme McDowell
Stinger GC Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Oosthuizen Flag of South Africa.svg Charl Schwartzel Flag of South Africa.svg Dean Burmester
Torque GC [6] Flag of Chile.svg Joaquín Niemann Flag of Chile.svg Mito Pereira Flag of Colombia.svg Sebastián Muñoz Flag of Mexico.svg Carlos Ortiz

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 2025 season. [7] [8] [9]

DateTournamentHost countryPurse (US$)Individual winner [b] Winning teamNotes
IndividualTeam
8 FebLIV Golf RiyadhSaudi Arabia
16 Feb LIV Golf Adelaide Australia
9 MarLIV Golf Hong KongHong Kong
16 MarLIV Golf SingaporeSingapore
4 MayLIV Golf KoreaSouth Korea
29 JunLIV Golf DallasUnited States
13 JulLIV Golf AndalucíaSpain
27 Jul LIV Golf UK United Kingdom
10 Aug LIV Golf Chicago United States
17 AugLIV Golf IndianapolisUnited States
TBALIV Team ChampionshipUnited States

Notes

  1. ↑ Stenson, Poulter, and Westwood are co-captains of Majesticks GC. [4]
  2. ↑ 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.

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