2024 Season in Review: Crushers GC
After winning the Team Championship in 2023, the Crushers followed with an impressive regular season in 2024 and won three times
Third in a series of stories reviewing the 2024 season for each of the 13 LIV Golf League teams.
Previous reviews: 4Aces | Cleeks
CRUSHERS QUICK REVIEW
TEAM
After winning the Team Championship in 2023, the Crushers followed with an impressive regular season in 2024, winning three tournament titles, including the last regular-seaon event in Chicago to clinch the No. 1 seeding. But their title defense the following week in Dallas fizzled with an upset loss to 13th-seeded Iron Heads GC in the semifinals.
PLAYERS (final points ranking)
Bryson DeChambeau (8): Consistent but not spectacular, as his best LIV Golf result was a T3 in Nashville, his only podium finish. Made up for his lack of individual trophies on LIV Golf with his second career major title at the U.S. Open.
Paul Casey (11): Returned to form after a frustrating 2023 regular season, and nearly broke through with his first LIV Golf win, making the playoff in Hong Kong.
Anirban Lahiri (16): His runner-up finish in Andalucía was his fourth career second-place showing in LIV Golf. A mostly rollercoaster season of results but still highly productive.
Charles Howell III (32): Missed four tournaments due to a stress fracture in his left tibia; otherwise, he likely would’ve finished in the Lock Zone.
TEAM OVERVIEW
Wins: 3 Podiums: 7 Points Finishes: 12 Seed: 1st Team Championship: T7
COUNTING SCORES (league ranking)
Round 1: 100 under (2nd) Round 2: 114 under (2nd) Round 3: 96 under (1st) Total: 310 under (1st)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Secured No. 1 seed for first time by winning regular-season finale in Chicago
- Won back-to-back team titles in Jeddah and Houston
- Team finished with points in all but one tournament
- Runner-up finishes by Lahiri (playoff in Andalucía) and Casey (playoff in Hong Kong) were team’s best individual results
- Only team with three players finishing inside top 20 in points – DeChambeau 8th, Casey 11th, Lahiri 16th
- Team led league in fairways hit and scrambling while DeChambeau led league in driving distance
- Beyond LIV Golf, DeChambeau won the second major title of his career at U.S. Open
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
Semifinals: Lost to Iron Heads, 3-0. DeChambeau lost to Lee 2 up. Casey lost to S. Vincent 1 up. Lahiri-Howell lost to Na-Kozuma, 3 and 1.
Finals (Tier 2): T7 at 2 under. Casey 69, Lahiri 71, DeChambeau 73, Howell III 73.
REGULAR-SEASON RESULTS
EVENT
TEAM
DeChambeau
Casey
Lahiri
Howell III
Mayakoba
2
T25
T11
T21
T5
Las Vegas
4
T9
T5
T39
T34
Jeddah
1
4
T29
T6
T6
Hong Kong
1
T6
T2
T34
T8
Miami
6
T7
T14
36
T43
Adelaide
T7
T26
T31
T14
T26
Singapore
11
T27
T32
T30
T40
Houston
T4
T18
T9
T6
WD
Nashville
2
T3
T9
T18
WD
Andalucía
2
9
T17
2
WD
UK
T3
T11
5
T39
WD
Greenbrier
8
T15
T28
T42
T37
Chicago
1
T6
T13
T6
T42
LEAGUE RANKINGS
STATISTIC
TEAM
DeChambeau
Casey
Lahiri
Howell III
Fwy Hit
1
T35
5
T6
34
Drive Dist.
5
1
23
T39
31
GIR
2
8
4
25
20
Scrambling
1
12
6
9
26
Putting Avg.
8
10
38
33
T36
Birdies Avg.
5
T8
T10
T39
53
