LIV Golf Chicago

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LIV Golf Chicago
Tournament information
Location Bolingbrook, Illinois
Established2022
Course(s)Bolingbrook Golf Club (2024)
Par71
Length7,408 yards (6,774 m)
Tour(s) LIV Golf
MENA Tour
FormatIndividual and team stroke play
Prize fund US$5,000,000 (individual)
US$20,000,000 (team)
Month playedSeptember
Tournament record score
Aggregate199 Jon Rahm (2024)
To par−13 Cameron Smith (2022)
−13 Bryson DeChambeau (2023)
Current champion
Flag of Spain.svg Jon Rahm
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Rich Harvest Farms
Location in the United States
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Rich Harvest Farms
Location in Illinois

The LIV Golf Chicago is a professional golf tournament held at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Bolingbrook, Illinois, outside of Chicago. It was held at Rich Harvest Farms in 2022 and 2023.

Contents

The inaugural event was held in September 2022 at Rich Harvest Farms as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 48-player field featured several former major championship including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Charl Schwartzel, Patrick Reed and Sergio García, [1] and was won by 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith. [2]

Format

The tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four-man teams were announced on the Monday before the tournament, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth. [3]

Inaugural field

48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event. [lower-alpha 1]

Teams

Winners

Individual

YearTour(s) [lower-alpha 2] WinnerScoreTo parMargin of
victory
Runners-up
LIV Golf Chicago
2024 LIV Flag of Spain.svg Jon Rahm 199−113 strokes Flag of Spain.svg Sergio García
Flag of Chile.svg Joaquín Niemann
2023 LIV, MENA Flag of the United States.svg Bryson DeChambeau 200−131 stroke Flag of India.svg Anirban Lahiri
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Marc Leishman
LIV Golf Invitational Chicago
2022 LIV Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cameron Smith 203−133 strokes Flag of the United States.svg Dustin Johnson
Flag of the United States.svg Peter Uihlein

Team

YearWinners [lower-alpha 1] Score
(to par)
Margin of
victory
Runners-up [lower-alpha 1]
LIV Golf Chicago
2024 Crushers GC [lower-alpha 3] −141 strokeLegion XIII [lower-alpha 4]
2023 Crushers GC [lower-alpha 3] −333 strokesFireballs GC [lower-alpha 5]
LIV Golf Invitational Chicago
2022 4Aces GC [lower-alpha 6] −241 strokeSmash GC [lower-alpha 7]

Notes

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References

  1. "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
  2. Priest, Evin (September 18, 2022). "Cam Smith wins LIV Golf's Chicago event, proves he's not 'a worse player' just because he switched tours". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  3. Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.