2024 Season in Review: HyFlyers GC
For the first time in LIV Golf history, a HyFlyers player enjoyed a champagne celebration, with Brendan Steele winning the individual title in Adelaide
Fifth in a series of stories reviewing the 2024 season for each of the 13 LIV Golf League teams.
Previous reviews: 4Aces | Cleeks | Crushers | Fireballs
HYFLYERS QUICK REVIEW
TEAM
For the first time in LIV Golf history, a HyFlyers player enjoyed a champagne celebration, with Brendan Steele winning the individual title in Adelaide. That fueled the team’s only podium result in an otherwise disappointing season in which the HyFlyers struggled for results, finishing outside the points in eight of 13 regular-season tournaments. An upset of the higher-seeded Torque GC in the Team Championship quarterfinals provided a reason to smile entering the offseason.
PLAYERS (final points ranking)
Brendan Steele (24): Shot an impressive 18 under in Adelaide to win by one stroke, his first victory of any kind in 6-1/2 years. That was his only top 10 of the season, but it was good enough to keep him in the Lock Zone.
Cameron Tringale (28): The team’s most consistent performer, he fashioned a couple of competitive stretches during the season, including a tie for sixth in the UK. He remains one of LIV Golf’s top match-play performers, winning both his singles matches in Dallas to move his career record to 5-0.
Andy Ogletree (34): Big things were expected of the 2023 International Series champion, but he was slowed by injuries for much of the season and never really found his footing until LIV Golf UK, when he led after two rounds and showed the promise of future stardom.
Phil Mickelson (46): The team captain and six-time major winner was able to avoid the Drop Zone, but the results were not up to his high standards, as he posted just one top 10 and finished with top-24 points just three times.
TEAM OVERVIEW
Wins: 0 Podiums: 1 Points Finishes: 5 Seed: 12th Team Championship: T-7th
COUNTING SCORES (league ranking)
Round 1: 43 under (12th) Round 2: 83 under (9th) Round 3: 25 under (12th) Total: 151 under (11th)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Steele won team’s first trophy of any kind with individual title in Adelaide
- Team’s 3rd place in Adelaide is first podium result since Chicago in 2022
- Upset 5th-seeded Torque 2-1 in the Team Championship quarterfinals
- Mickelson’s T6 in Jeddah is his best LIV Golf individual result
- Tringale produced a team-leading 8 points finishes
- Ogletree entered final round in UK with 36-hole lead, eventually finishing T6
- Steele recorded first albatross in LIV Golf history at Greenbrier
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
Quarterfinals: Defeated Torque 2-1. Ogletree lost to Niemann, 4 and 3. Tringale def. Munoz, 3 and 2. Mickelson-Steele defeated Pereira-Ortiz, 2 and 1.
Semifinals: Lost to Legion XIII, 2-1. Tringale defeated Catlin, 20 holes. Ogletree lost to Hatton, 5 and 4. Mickelson-Steele lost to Surratt-Vincent, 4 and 3.
Finals (Tier 2): T-7th at 2 under. Steele 68, Ogletree 70, Tringale 72, Mickelson 76.
REGULAR-SEASON RESULTS
EVENT
TEAM
Mickelson
Steele
Tringale
Ogletree
Mayakoba
T10
T51
T21
T17
50
Las Vegas
13
T30
T53
T34
T45
Jeddah
T6
T6
T22
T22
T41
Hong Kong
12
T52
T34
T34
T29
Miami
T12
47
T18
T21
50
Adelaide
3
T38
1
21
T3
Singapore
T8
T22
T40
T14
T45
Houston
T8
T37
T37
T9
T42
Nashville
10
T40
T14
T35
48
Andalucía
11
T27
T27
T27
T42
UK
T7
T34
T46
T6
T6
Greenbrier
T10
50
T25
T11
T33
Chicago
11
T23
T30
T34
T40
LEAGUE RANKINGS
STATISTIC
TEAM
Mickelson
Steele
Tringale
Ogletree
Fwy Hit
11
T45
17
18
48
Drive Dist.
7
41
T15
T24
T24
GIR
10
42
29
T15
50
Scrambling
13
52
44
34
45
Putting Avg.
10
39
T40
18
28
Birdies Avg.
8
T32
29
T10
35
