First Look at LIV Golf players in the U.S. Open

OAKMONT, Pa. – The third major of the 2025 golf season, the U.S. Open, starts Thursday at famed Oakmont. An overview of the LIV Golf players in the field.

WHO'S PLAYING

14 full-time LIV Golf players will compete in the 2025 U.S. Open

NOTEWORTHY

Defending U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau (Crushers GC), a two-time winner, leads the list of 14 LIV Golf players competing at Oakmont. Also included are two other current USGA titleholders – 2024 U.S. Senior Open champion Richard Bland (Cleeks Golf Club) and 2024 U.S. Amateur champion Josele Ballester (Fireballs GC) – as well as 2016 U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson (4Aces GC) who won the last time the tournament was played at Oakmont. …

DeChambeau will attempt to become the first U.S. Open champion since Brooks Koepka (Smash GC) in 2018 to successfully defend his title. …

DeChambeau has finished inside the top five in the first two majors this season – T5 at the Masters and T2 at the PGA Championship. …

DeChambeau and Koepka each have a chance to become just the seventh golfer to win three or more U.S. Opens. …

Joaquin Niemann (Torque GC) earned the first LIV Golf exemption for the U.S. Open by leading the season-long points race; Niemann has won four of LIV Golf’s first eight tournaments in 2025, including the most recent one in Virginia. …

2021 U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm (Legion XIII) can become the 18th player to win two U.S. Opens. …

Rahm was the low amateur at the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont, finishing T23. …

Six-time major winner Phil Mickelson (HyFlyers GC) can complete the career grand slam with a U.S. Open win; Mickelson has won three Masters, two PGAs and one Open. …

Ballester, who joined LIV Golf prior to last week’s tournament in Virginia, is making his U.S. Open debut. …

Nine of the 14 LIV Golf players competed in the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont. …

The 14 full-time players represent 26% of the total 54-man field starting at each LIV Golf tournament

STEAMROLLING INTO OAKMONT

Several players hope to carry the momentum from last week’s LIV Golf Virginia presented by Maaden into Oakmont:

• Joaquin Niemann shot a final-round 8-under 63 to win his fourth LIV Golf title of 2025 (and league-record sixth overall)
• Bryson DeChambeau shot a final-round 65 to finish T4, his sixth consecutive worldwide top-5 finish (including the first two majors)
• Phil Mickelson shot a final-round 65, including an incredible side-angle chip-in late in his round, to finish T4
• Jon Rahm shot a final-round 68 to finish T8 and maintain his streak of finishing top 10 in each LIV Golf event that he’s completed
• Dustin Johnson shot a final-round 66 to finish T10, his third top-10 in his last five LIV Golf starts
• Marc Leishman shot a final-round 66 to finish T10; he posted his first LIV Golf win earlier this season in Miami
• Carlos Ortiz shot a final-round 68 to finish T10, his fourth top-10 finish this season
• Tyrrell Hatton shot a final-round 65 – his lowest round this season – to finish T15
• Jinichiro Kozuma shot a final-round 64 – the Iron Heads’ lowest round this season – to finish T23
• Richard Bland shot a final-round 65 and produced the field’s longest drive on the two measured holes in the final round at 351.7 yards

HOW THEY FARED IN 2016

Nine LIV Golf players in this week’s field competed in the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont.

MAJOR BESTS

Since joining LIV Golf, several players have produced or tied their career best results in various majors

JOAQUIN NIEMANN

• Best result in major (T8 in 2025 PGA Championship)
• Best result in PGA Championship (T8 in 2025)
• Best result in Masters (T16 in 2023)

BRYSON DeCHAMBEAU

• Best result in PGA Championship (2nd in 2024; T2 in 2025)
• Best result in Open Championship (T8 in 2022)
• Ties best result in major (1st in 2024 U.S. Open)
• Ties best result in U.S. Open (1st in 2024)

BROOKS KOEPKA

• Ties best result in major (1st in 2023 PGA Championship)
• Ties best result in PGA Championship (1st in 2023)
• Ties best result in Masters (T2 in 2023)

CAMERON SMITH

• Best result in PGA Championship (T9 in 2023)
• Ties best result in U.S. Open (4 in 2023)

TYRRELL HATTON

• Best result in Masters (T9 in 2024)

2025 MAJOR RESULTS

How the 14 LIV Golf players at Oakmont have fared in the first two majors of 2025