The schedule is set, the rosters are set, and the wildcards are in, welcome to the 2025 LIV Golf season!
We take a look at the pre-season power rankings for all thirteen teams as well as every single member of the field featured in 2025.
Last season Jon Rahm entered and won the league after a late-season push that reminded the world why he is one of the very best.
Cam Smith’s all-Australian Ripper team didn’t finish the regular season as number one, but battled through an intense three rounds of playoffs in Dallas to claim their first team championship.
Bryson DeChambeau made waves at The Masters and PGA Championship before eventually winning his second U.S. Open at Pinehurst.
2025 features new names and new looks for the returning thirteen teams. LIV has made a commitment to bringing in fresh young talent for the new year and the rosters reflect that decision.
The field boasts several recent amateurs among the ranks who will look to make a name for themselves and push their team towards victory.
Team Rankings
(13) Iron Heads
The perennial cellar-dwellers, Iron Heads’ one podium finish over the course of three seasons puts the team at the bottom of the rankings once again.
New addition Yubin Jang will push The Iron Heads to be better than last year, but there’s little data on the young golfer outside The Korean Tour where he managed three wins.
The Iron Heads’ surprising push in the Team Championship in Dallas was either a sign of good things to come or a total fluke. We should know the truth by the first three tournaments this season.
(12) Majesticks
The Majesticks finished in 13th place five times last season, whereas the HyFlyers and Iron Heads came in dead last only once.
When The Majesticks are bad, they are really bad. The only other team than The Iron Heads to finish 2024 without a podium finish, The Majesticks did nothing to improve the roster and will continue to field the oldest team in the league.
With the trend of injecting more youth into LIV, this team is headed the wrong way.
(11) RangeGoats
International Series star Ben Campbell is a fine golfer, but we’re not convinced he’s necessarily an upgrade over Thomas Pieters who was traded to The 4 Aces.
Captain Bubba Watson, who was supposedly relegated out of the league after finishing in 53rd place is back as a business decision.
The RangeGoats finished in tenth place or worse six times but did finish on the podium twice.
2025 is likely to continue the downward trend for a team that had an amazing 2023 season, winning once and in contention several times over that season.
Matt Wolff and Peter Uihlein will need to carry this team on their shoulders in order to achieve any kind of success.
(10) HyFlyers
We’re picking Phil Mickelson to be LIV’s most-improved golfer of 2025. After finishing in 46th place overall and securing only one Top 10 finish, Mickelson announced that he will reexamine his game and strive to improve.
Right now, we’re not sure what that looks like, but willing to take him at his word.
Brendan Steele’s surprise win at Adelaide helped The HyFlyers grab their sole podium finish of the year while Cameron Tringale and Andy Ogletree’s form was good enough for finishing in 28th and 34th place, respectively.
(9) Cleeks
Perhaps the most surprising team of 2024, The Cleeks went on a short-lived hot streak that earned them their first team win (Houston) and runner-up in Singapore.
The Cleeks are one of the older teams in LIV but have embraced the youth movement and signed next-gen Danish star Frederik Kjettrup.
Could Cleeks surprise everyone again? With the reliable play of Richard Bland and Adrian Meronk, it is within the realm of possibility they win again in 2025. However, asking for two wins may be a stretch.
(8) 4 Aces
After finishing in 10th place last season, The 4 Aces are all about potential and recapturing their previous form.
Pat Perez was replaced Thomas Pieters who has finished 30th and 33rd the past two seasons. Harold Varner III who had an amazing 2023 season faltered last year, but should trend upwards in 2024.
Patrick Reed and Dustin Johnson are both fully capable of winning individual trophies, as the later did win in Las Vegas but had a rough end to 2024.
The most potential of this once-great squad lies in Patrick Reed, one of the several LIV golfers who will commit significant playing time outside LIV to compete for Ryder Cup and OWGR points.
There’s no reason Reed and DJ can’t be up there with Koepka/Gooch and Rahm/Hatton as the best duo in the league.
(7) Smash
Brooks Koepka and Talor Gooch are the best one-two punch in the league after Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton.
The cause for the drop in the rankings is simply because the two tournaments that Smash won last season (Las Vegas and Greenbrier) have been removed from the 2025 schedule.
One of their other two podium finishes, T2 at Houston, has also been removed as LIV will only visit the great state of Texas once this year at Dallas.
Several of the courses that Smash had difficulty on in 2024 remain on this season’s schedule.
If there was such a concept of strength of schedule in golf, Smash might have the most difficult pathway to the championship of those teams considered contenders.
(6) Torque
Torque receded last season after winning four tournaments in 2023. Still, they return one of the league’s best players in Joaquin Niemann and Carlos Ortiz who pulled off an unlikely individual victory in Houston.
Torque elected to return all four starters which makes them a mid-tier team despite the individual trophies earned last season.
(5) Fireballs
Fireballs is the only team in LIV that has won a tournament every season since the league’s inception in 2022. We expect this reliability and success to continue into 2025.
Sergio Garcia, who won the individual trophy at Andalucia and came in second place an astonishing three times, has committed himself to playing more golf outside LIV in hopes of rejoining Team Europe for The Ryder Cup.
(4) Stinger
The South Africans came so close to winning several times last season, securing four podium finishes and coming in runner-up twice.
The trio of Oosthuizen, Schwartzel, and Burmester were incredible throughout the season, each finishing in The Lock Zone.
The fall of Brandan Grace during 2024 spelled doom for Stingers’ chances of winning anything.
Despite this, Stinger decided to make no changes to their roster, resigning the previously relegated Grace in hopes that he could recover his 2023/2022 form.
It’s difficult to see how Grace could be as bad as he was last season, just coming in the middle of the pack in the standings individually will mean Stinger has a shot at winning multiple tournaments in 2025.
(3) Ripper
The 2024 Team Champions return with the same roster to defend their title. Ripper’s back-to-back wins (Adelaide and Singapore) were sandwiched between three additional podium finishes.
Cam Smith finished the season winless but came in second place three times.
We’re banking on Smith to return to his 2023/2022 form and make a run at several tournaments in every league he’s involved in and well as the major championships.
Marc Leishman served as an incredible number two, securing four Top 10 finishes in 2024.
(2) Crushers
Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers remain untouched, returning all starters for a third season in a row.
The Crushers finished first in the standings during the regular season, securing three wins (Jeddah, Hong Kong, Chicago) and an additional four podium finishes, the most of any team in the league.
(1) Legion XIII
Winners of four tournaments in 2024 (Mayakoba, Miami, Nashville, and the UK) Legion XIII was led by LIV superstar Jon Rahm and the incredibly impressive Tyrrell Hatton who won three individual tournaments between the two.
Rahm’s late-season charge in 2024 gives us confidence that he will dominate LIV once again and will be a force on The DP World Tour and major championships.
We predicted in early January that Tyrrell Hatton would win The Open at Royal Portrush. If he is true to form again, Hatton will likely add at least one or two individual titles to his resume in 2025.
Caleb Surratt is expected to take it to the next level in his sophomore season being a pro. He and Kieran Vincent were often a detriment to Legion XIII in 2024, but there is little reason to believe his career will go anywhere but up in the next few years.
The addition of Tom McKibbin is a shrewd move by Rahm. Banking on two players who are still of college age is risky but will prove to be an upgrade over last year.
Player Rankings
(57) Ollie Schniederjans
(56) Luis Masaveu – The youth movement in LIV is going ahead full steam. Until recently, Masaveu has been playing in the amateur ranks but has proven he can hold his own in professional tournaments.
Because Masaveu is almost a complete unknown at this point, he currently sits at the bottom spot in these rankings.
Masaveu replaces Eugenio Chacarra who was only able to manage one Top 10 finish last season.
(55) Ben Campbell
(54) Max Lee – Won the 2024 LIV Golf Promotions tournament to earn his golden ticket to LIV.
Time has not treated the previous winners of the Promotions tournament kindly as last year’s winners Kalle Samooja and Kieran Vincent were both relegated out of the league.
(53) Frederik Kjettrup
(52) Yubin Jang
One of LIV’s newest golfers and a member of The Iron Heads, Jang has won in Korea, so his adjustment to LIV should be a relatively smooth transition.
(51) Anthony Kim
Kim seemed to get better and better as the season went on. Being away from professional golf for so long showed Kim’s rust which he slowly but surely shook off by the end of the season.
Kim has quickly become a fan favourite and will no doubt be cheered on in 2025.
(50) Bubba Watson
Hopeful that we’re wrong about this one and that Bubba can have a renaissance season.
He did commit to playing a tournament on The International Series in Indonesia, but there’s plenty more work to be done to reinvigorate the two-time Masters champion.
(49) Jinichiro Kozuma
(48) Mito Pereira
(47) Matt Jones
(46) Branden Grace
A complete wildcard as we have no idea what version of Brenden Grace is going to show up in 2025.
If his injury is fully healed Grace would return quickly to The Lock Zone and help Stinger win multiple tournaments.
If the disappointing results continue, it will be a bad look for the league which has disregarded their own policies regarding The Drop Zone.
(45) Martin Kaymer
The Cleeks captain showed flashes of the golfer he used to be but finished the season in poor form.
Despite this, 2024 should be considered a success as he was the most improved golfer from the 2023 season.
(43) Danny Lee
(42) Tom McKibbin
An intriguing prospect, McKibbin has won the European open in 2023, a tournament won by LIV alumni Laurie Canter, Kalle Samooja, and Paul Casey.
The twenty-two-year-old also made the cut for The US Open and The Open last year, meaning he can hold his own against the world’s best even at such a young age.
(41) Andy Ogletree
(40) Lee Westwood
(39) Ian Poulter
(38) Henrik Stenson
(37) Harold Varner III
(36) Sam Horsfield
An intriguing member of Majesticks, Horsfield managed a second-place podium finish in Nashville and only had one poor outing during the season.
At a young twenty-eight-year-old Horsfield has additional potential, he could be a surprise winner in 2025 like Brendan Steele was last season.
(35) Caleb Surratt
Anticipating a big move in the end-of-season standings for LIV’s youngest golfer.
(34) Graeme McDowell
(33) Phil Mickelson
Moving up thirteen spots will be difficult, but it’s been done before.
If anyone can make a jump that significant it’s Mickelson. I like 2025 to be his breakout year.
(32) Cameron Tringale
(31) Kevin Na
(30) Thomas Pieters
(29) Brendan Steele
(28) David Puig
(27) John Catlin
It was a shocker that the super-sub was not picked up by a team. Catlin finished in 44th place last season despite not playing in eight tournaments.
Catlin will likely be everyone’s top choice for a sub should someone go down with an injury, expect to see him on several teams.
(26) Jason Kokrak
(25) Lucas Herbert
Herbert surged at the end of 2024 and helped Ripper pull off the Team Championship, can his form continue into next season?
(24) Charles Howell III
(23) Peter Uihlein
Will success on The International Series translate into success in LIV?
The RangeGoats’ long-driver was a force in 2022, can he return to that form?
(22) Sebastian Munoz
(21) Matt Wolff
(20) Richard Bland
Can LIV’s second-oldest golfer keep the magic going for one more season? Bland won multiple championships outside LIV which seemed to keep his game on point throughout the season.
Fun Fact: Bland was the best golfer of the field among those without a podium finish.
(19) Adrian Meronk
Was instrumental in pushing Cleeks into relevancy and earning their first team win in Houston.
(18) Carlos Ortiz
(17) Charl Schwartzel
The first-ever individual champion on LIV, Schwartzel had a rough 2023 but bounced back in 2024 with two podium finishes.
His inconsistency is alarming, but he’s a great team player and is a real threat to win when he’s on his game.
(16) Anirban Lahiri
(15) Patrick Reed – It feels like Reed is on the cusp of an individual trophy after capturing victory on The International Series 2024, a victory which included a round of 59 in Hong Kong.
(14) Dustin Johnson
(13) Marc Leishman
(12) Paul Casey
As reliable as they come, Casey threatened to win once at Hong Kong, could 2025 be a more successful individual campaign?
(11) Abraham Ancer
(10) Dean Burmester
A win and two podium finishes last year, paired with some inspiring play at multiple major championships makes me think Burmester is a rising star despite his age.
(9) Sergio Garcia
(8) Talor Gooch
One of the best and most consistent golfers in LIV’s history, Gooch wasn’t able to defend his individual championship but is always a threat to win.
He has been surpassed by Hatton as the best non-captain in the league, but remains a Top 10 talent.
(7) Louis Oosthuizen
2025 is the time for Oosthuizen to earn his first win on LIV after coming in second place twice last season.
(6) Cam Smith
(5) Tyrrell Hatton
Hatton finished one point behind Sergio Garcia for 3rd place overall in the individual standings for 2024.
Hatton is the best non-captain in the league. At 33 years old I believe he is still in his prime for another season or two and is fully capable of winning a major championship.
(4) Bryson DeChambeau
Winning the US Open and coming in second place at the PGA Championship will earn DeChambeau plenty of leeway despite not winning on LIV in 2024.
While he did not look locked in at ‘The Showdown’ last December, he is an undeniable talent who can shake off a lacklustre ending to the season.
(3) Brooks Koepka
Always a threat to win, Koepka’s issue has always been focus and consistency, for which he has been criticised for over the years.
Koepka is locked in when he wants to be as evidenced by being the only multiple-tournament winner other than Niemann and Rahm in 2024.
Eligible for all four major championships this year, his sustained success in LIV may bank on entering some four-day tournaments to prepare for winning another major.
(2) Joaquin Niemann
Two wins and four podium finished were good for second place in the season-long standings.
Niemann also swooped in and won The International Series as a result of his win in Riyadh.
Niemann has an ultra-high ceiling and it’s arguable that he has not entered his prime yet.
(1) Jon Rahm
Last season’s individual champion finished the year red hot. Rahm, who is now the face of the league will look to defend his title.
The only real competition for the number one spot came from runner-up Joaquin Niemann.
The two figure to be in the conversation for multiple wins on tour once again in 2025.
