LIV Golf Chicago
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bolingbrook, Illinois |
| Established | 2022 |
| Course | Bolingbrook Golf Club |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,408 yards (6,774 m) |
| Tour(s) | LIV Golf MENA Tour |
| Format | Individual and team stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$5,000,000 (individual) US$20,000,000 (team) |
| Month played | September |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 199 Jon Rahm (2024) |
| To par | −13 Cameron Smith (2022) −13 Bryson DeChambeau (2023) |
| Current champion | |
| South Africa Dean Burmester | |
| Location map | |
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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.
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event.[a]
- Abraham Ancer
- Richard Bland
- Laurie Canter
- Paul Casey
- Eugenio Chacarra
- Bryson DeChambeau (c)
- Sergio García (c)
- Talor Gooch
- Branden Grace
- Sam Horsfield
- Charles Howell III
- Dustin Johnson (c)
- Matt Jones
- Sadom Kaewkanjana
- Martin Kaymer (c)
- Phachara Khongwatmai
- Sihwan Kim
- Brooks Koepka (c)
- Chase Koepka
- Jason Kokrak
- Anirban Lahiri
- Marc Leishman
- Graeme McDowell
- Phil Mickelson (c)
- Jediah Morgan
- Kevin Na (c)
- Joaquín Niemann
- Shaun Norris
- Louis Oosthuizen (c)
- Wade Ormsby (c)
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pat Perez
- Turk Pettit
- James Piot
- David Puig
- Ian Poulter
- Patrick Reed
- Charl Schwartzel
- Cameron Smith
- Henrik Stenson
- Hudson Swafford (c)
- Cameron Tringale
- Peter Uihlein
- Harold Varner III
- Scott Vincent
- Lee Westwood
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Matthew Wolff
Teams
[edit | edit source]- 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
- Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
- Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
- Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
- HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
- Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
- Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Stenson, Poulter, Horsfield
- Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
- Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
- Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
- Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
- Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Puig, Morgan
Winners
[edit | edit source]Individual
[edit | edit source]| Year | Tour(s)[b] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Chicago | ||||||
| 2025 | LIV | South Africa Dean Burmester | 204 | −9 | Playoff | Spain Joséle Ballester Spain Jon Rahm |
| 2024 | LIV | Spain Jon Rahm | 199 | −11 | 3 strokes | Spain Sergio García Chile Joaquín Niemann |
| 2023 | LIV, MENA | United States Bryson DeChambeau | 200 | −13 | 1 stroke | India Anirban Lahiri Australia Marc Leishman |
| LIV Golf Invitational Chicago | ||||||
| 2022 | LIV | Australia Cameron Smith | 203 | −13 | 3 strokes | United States Dustin Johnson United States Peter Uihlein |
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Team
[edit | edit source]| Year | Winners[a] | Score (to par) |
Margin of victory |
Runners-up[a] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Chicago | ||||||
| 2025 | Stinger GC[c] | −17 | Playoff | Torque GC[d] | ||
| 2024 | Crushers GC[e] | −14 | 1 stroke | Legion XIII[f] | ||
| 2023 | Crushers GC[e] | −33 | 3 strokes | Fireballs GC[g] | ||
| LIV Golf Invitational Chicago | ||||||
| 2022 | 4Aces GC[h] | −24 | 1 stroke | Smash GC[i] | ||
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c (c) – Team captain
- ^ LIV − LIV Golf League; MENA − MENA Tour.
- ^ Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen (c) and Charl Schwartzel
- ^ Joaquín Niemann (c), Sebastián Muñoz, Carlos Ortiz and Mito Pereira
- ^ a b Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri
- ^ Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm (c), Caleb Surratt and Kieran Vincent
- ^ Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García (c) and Carlos Ortiz
- ^ Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
- ^ Brooks Koepka (c), Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein
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