First Look: LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship

PLYMOUTH, Mich. – LIV Golf’s 14-tournament 2025 season wraps up with this week’s Michigan Team Championship, the league’s biggest team prize with its unique competitive format of match play and stroke play.

BASIC INFO

When: Aug. 22-24, 2025

Where: The Cardinal at Saint John’s, Plymouth, Michigan

Competition: Team-only competition; head-to-head match play Quarterfinals and Semifinals; stroke-play Finals. Play-in game between last two teams to decide 12th seed

Field: 48 players – 12 teams of four players each for the final three rounds

Defending Team Champion: Ripper GC

Shotgun Start local time
Rd. 1/Quarterfinals, 12:05 p.m.
Rd. 2/Semifinals, 10:05 a.m.
Rd. 3/Finals, 1:05 p.m.

More information: Tickets | Tournament | Broadcast info

KEY STORYLINES

• LIV Golf makes its first visit to the state of Michigan for the season-ending Team Championship
• Twelve teams will vie for the league’s prestigious team title over three days of match play and stroke play action
• A new format this year involves 12 teams/48 players competing in all three rounds, with no byes for the higher-seeded teams
• Another new wrinkle is the league’s first-ever play-in match between the two lowest seeds, with the winner advancing to the Quarterfinals while the losing team is eliminated; Majesticks GC and Iron Heads GC will compete in the play-in match on Wednesday
• Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII earned the top seed in the season-long team points race after winning four tournaments this season
• Rahm, who clinched his second consecutive LIV Golf season-long Individual Championship last week in Indianapolis after shooting a final-round 11-under 60, will make his Team Championship debut after missing last year’s tournament with an illness
• Joaquin Niemann, winner of five individual titles this year, leads his Torque GC team that comes off a record-setting 64-under performance in winning the team title last week
• Torque’s Sebastian Munoz won his first individual tournament in his LIV Golf career in Indianapolis after shooting an historic 12-under 59 with a record 14 birdies, believed to be the most in any professional round
• Muñoz’s 59 is the third sub-60 round in LIV Golf history
• LIV Golf’s previous three Team Championships have been won by three different teams – 4Aces GC in 2022, Crushers GC in 2023 and Ripper GC in 2024
• Five players who finished in the Drop Zone and will be relegated after the season will be in action: Yubin Jang (Iron Heads GC), Frederik Kjettrup (Cleeks Golf Club), Henrik Stenson (Majesticks GC), Andy Ogletree (HyFlyers GC) and Mito Pereira (Torque GC)

LIV GOLF’S 50TH EVENT

The LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship marks the league’s 50th tournament since LIV Golf made its debut in June 2022 in London. A few notes related to the milestone:

• 11 players enter this week have competed in each of the previous 49 tournaments: Richard Bland, Sergio Garcia, Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson , Matt Jones, Kevin Na, Louis Oosthuizen , Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Peter Uihlein and Lee Westwood
• Of those 11 players, four share the record for having played the most holes (2,538): Gooch, Johnson, Jones and Uihlein
• 24 different players have won individual tournaments; the most recent first-time winner came last week in Indianapolis when Sebastian Munoz beat Jon Rahm in a playoff
• No player has lifted more trophies across all competitions than Talor Gooch, who has celebrated 13 trophies: Four individual tournament wins; the 2023 Individual Championship; seven regular-season tournaments with his team (three different teams); and the 2022 Team Championship-winning 4Aces GC
• 96 different players have played at least one LIV Golf round
• 26 players have recorded at least 500 birdies in their LIV Golf careers; with his first birdie this week, Harold Varner III will join that list
• 10 different teams have won tournaments; including their 2023 Team Championship title, the Crushers have raised the most trophies as a team (nine wins)
• With LIV Golf’s first visit to Detroit this week, 16 different metropolitan areas in the United States will have hosted LIV Golf tournaments; Chicago (two different courses) and Miami are the only ones to host event in each of the first four seasons
• LIV Golf has played in 28 different metropolitan areas across 10 different countries; that number will grow next year with the announcement that South Africa will host an event in March, the first time LIV Golf will visit the continent of Africa
• This week’s host course, The Cardinal at Saint John’s, is the 30th different course to host a LIV Golf tournament
• There have been 17 playoffs, 12 aces and 2 albatrosses in the first 49 events

PODIUMS, POINTS AND PRIZE MONEY

LOWEST ROUNDS

Two of the five lowest rounds in LIV Golf history were shot last week in Indianapolis

58 – Bryson DeChambeau (-12), 2023 Greenbrier, Rd. 3
59 – Joaquin Niemann (-12), 2024 Mayakoba, Rd. 1
59 – Sebastián Muñoz (-12), 2025 Indianapolis, Rd. 1
60 – Jon Rahm (-11), 2025 Indianapolis, Rd. 3
60 – Louis Oosthuizen (-10), 2024 Greenbrier, Rd. 3

ABOUT THE COURSE

THE CARDINAL AT SAINT JOHN’S
Plymouth, Michigan

Par: 70
Yardage: 6,980
Meters: 6,382

• The Cardinal, which opened in June 2024, is the crown jewel of Saint John’s Resort and incorporates Golden Age green contours and classic bunkering while preserving the century-old trees
• Michigan-based golf architect Raymond Hearn completely reworked the former site of a 27-hole layout on the west side of Detroit to create an original layout
• Hearn said the land was a “perfect setting for me to draw on my inspiration from previous Donald Ross, Tom Bendelow and Willie Park Jr. projects” and cited one of his favorite courses, Park’s Old Course in Sunningdale, England, as an influence
• Since opening last summer, the Cardinal has been nominated for a USA Today 10 Best Readers’ Choice Award for Best Public Golf Course
• The Cardinal is the first championship course to open to the public in Metro Detroit in more than 20 years
• Saint John’s Resort is owned by The Pulte Family Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit that has supported nearly 300 organizations worldwide with more than $150 million in grants and donations
• Two of the signature holes include the par-3 3rd (a challenging shot over water, with bunkers guarding the sides and behind the green) and the par-4 6th (rolling fairways and strategic bunkering)

2025 DEBUT COURSES

Six courses made their first appearance as a host venue for LIV Golf tournaments in 2025

Riyadh Golf Club (Saudi Arabia)
Club de Golf Chapultepec (Mexico)
Jack Nick Golf Course (South Korea)
Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (USA)
The Club at Chatham Hills (USA)
The Cardinal at Saint John’s (USA)

WEATHER OUTLOOK

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STATISTICS

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SCORING

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