First Look: LIV Golf Indianapolis

WESTFIELD, Ind. – LIV Golf’s 2025 regular season wraps up with its first visit to Indianapolis, the 13th tournament of the 14-event season, with next week’s Team Championship set for Michigan.

BASIC INFO

When: Aug. 15-17, 2025

Where: The Club at Chatham Hills, Westfield, Indiana

Competition: Three rounds/54 holes of stroke play

Field: 54 players – 13 teams of four players each, and two wild cards

Shotgun Start local time
Rd. 1, 12:05 p.m.
Rd. 2, 11:05 a.m.
Rd. 3, 10:05 a.m.

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KEY STORYLINES

LIV Golf makes its first visit to the state of Indiana and its first appearance on a Pete Dye-designed course at The Club at Chatham Hills

LIV Golf Indianapolis marks the final regular-season tournament of the 2025 league season and will crown the season-long Individual Champion

Points leader Joaquin Niemann (Torque GC captain) and his closest pursuer Jon Rahm (Legion XIII captain) are the only players still in the running for the Individual Championship title

Rahm outbattled Niemann last year to win the title, but Niemann has the points advantage entering this week’s tournament

Lock Zone, Open Zone and Drop Zone positions will be finalized this week, as well as the final team seedings for next week’s Michigan Team Championship

Dean Burmester enters Indianapolis fresh off his win in a three-man playoff against Rahm and young Fireballs GC star Josele Ballester in Chicago

Burmester became the ninth different LIV Golf player to win multiple individual tournaments

Burmester’s all-South African Stinger GC team also won a playoff against Niemann’s Torque team to end a drought of 31 regular-season tournaments without a win

The Stinger sweep is the 16th time in league history that a team and one of its players have swept both trophies in the same event; the Stingers first achieved that feat in the inaugural LIV Golf London event in 2022

Ballester’s T2 finish in Chicago is the second consecutive LIV Golf event in which a 21-year-old has finished on the podium; the league’s youngest player, Legion XIII’s Caleb Surratt, finished third at LIV Golf UK by JCB

REGULAR-SEASON FINALE

LIV Golf Indianapolis will decide the league’s season-long races and determine the fate of individual players in the final points standings.

INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann will take a 12.27 point lead over Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm in a battle for the league’s top individual honor. Rahm is the defending champion but must finish 7th or better to have any mathematical chance to overtake Niemann, who controls his own fate and has a 58.7% chance of winning, according to LIV Golf data analysts. The players are guaranteed to finish top 2 in the final standings. (Click here for scenarios)

THIRD PLACE

The final bonus-paying position in the Individual Championship remains up for grabs among four players. Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau has a substantial lead on his three pursuers – Stinger GC’s Dean Burmester, Smash GC’s Talor Gooch and 4Aces GC’s Patrick Reed – and has a 96.2% chance of remaining in third place. If that happens, it would be DeChambeau’s best season-long finish in LIV Golf.

LOCK ZONE

The top 24 in season-long points are guaranteed full-time spots for the 2026 LIV Golf season. According to the data analysts, 17 players are already secured of spots, with another four with a better than 86% chance of retaining their top 24 positions. The most vulnerable players currently inside the top 24 are HyFlyers GC Captain Phil Mickelson (22) and the Crushers GC duo of Anirban Lahiri (23) and Richard Bland (24). Howell enters this week with 54.03 points. Among those hoping to play their way inside the Top 24 are Cleeks Golf Club's Richard Bland, who has finished in the Lock Zone in his first three seasons; HyFlyers GC’s Cameron Tringale; and Iron Heads GC’s Jinichiro Kozuma, who missed the first five tournaments this season with an injury. Bland and Tringale each have just under a 30% chance of moving up, while Kozuma is at 8.6%.

RELEGATION

This is the last chance for players to avoid finishing in the Drop Zone (49th or worse in points) that will result in being relegated from the league. All three Majesticks GC co-captains are at risk. Lee Westwood and Henrik Stenson rank 47th and 48th in points, respectively, while Ian Poulter ranks 52nd. According to the data analysts, Poulter has a 6.4% chance of avoiding relegation. Torque’s Mito Pereira is 49th in points while HyFlyers’ Andy Ogletree is 50th. Other full-time players in trouble are Iron Heads’ Yubin Jang (53rd), Cleeks GC’s Frederik Kjettrup (T55) and wild card player Anthony Kim (T55).

TEAM SEEDS

Seedings for next week’s Michigan Team Championship will be finalized. Legion XIII already has the top seed wrapped up. Crushers GC and Fireballs GC are in a tight battle for second. Torque GC is hoping to hang onto fourth place against a strong bid from 4Aces, with Ripper GC and Stinger GC still mathematically alive to finish fourth. Teams with the highest seeds after Indianapolis will be able to select their opponent for next week’s quarterfinals.

TROPHY SWEEPS

Stinger GC swept the individual and team trophies at LIV Golf Chicago, the 16th time that’s been done in league history, and the fourth time this season.

2025
Hong Kong – Fireball GC (team), Sergio Garcia (individual)
Miami – Ripper GC (team), Marc Leishman (individual)
Korea – Crushers GC (team), Bryson DeChambeau (individual)
Chicago – Stinger GC (team), Dean Burmester (individual)

2024
Nashville – Legion III (team), Tyrrell Hatton (individual)
Andalucia – Fireballs GC (team), Sergio Garcia (individual)
UK by JCB – Legion XIII (team), Jon Rahm (individual)
Greenbrier – Smash GC (team), Brooks Koepka (individual)

2023
Mayakoba – Crushers GC (team), Charles Howell III (individual)
Singapore – RangeGoats (team), Talor Gooch (individual)
Bedminster – Ripper GC (team), Cameron Smith (individual)
Chicago – Crushers GC (team), Bryson DeChambeau (individual)

2022
London – Stinger GC (team), Charl Schwartzel (individual). Note: Stinger GC took all three spots on the individual podium, the only that’s been done
Boston – 4Aces GC (team), Dustin Johnson (individual)
Thailand – Fireballs GC (team), Eugenio Chacarra (individual)
Jeddah – Smash GC (team), Brooks Koepka (individual)

MULTIPLE WINNERS

Dean Burmester became the ninth individual player to win multiple tournaments on LIV Golf.

7 – Joaquin Niemann
5 – Brooks Koepka
4 – Talor Gooch
3 – Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau
2 – Dean Burmester, Sergio Garcia, Jon Rahm

ABOUT THE COURSE

THE CLUB AT CHATHAM HILLS
Westfield, Indiana

Par: 71
Yardage: 7,143
Meters: 6,533

• Legendary golf architect Pete Dye, a lifelong Indiana resident who lived just 10 minutes away from the property, designed and built the course, the final one of his World Golf Hall of Fame career

• Dye made more than 40 site visits during the construction process

• Dye and his wife Alice celebrated the course’s opening in 2014 with inaugural tee shots on the 10th hole; both split the fairway

• This will be the first visit that LIV Golf has made to a Pete Dye course

• The course blends challenging golf with the beauty of the surrounding landscape, including rolling hills, wooded areas, and water features

• Chatham Hills is the only private club in Indiana to have hosted two back-to-back Division I collegiate golf events, the NCAA DI Women's Regional in 2023 and the Mid-American Conference (MAC) DI Men's Golf Conference Championship in 2024

• Golf Digest has ranked the course in its top 15 in the state of Indiana since 2021

• New tees have been built on seven different holes, including the stretch between 16-17-18

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