Last time out in Greenbrier, Brooks Koepka pipped Jon Rahm in a play-off for his fifth Individual title. But despite coming up short, Rahm overtook Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann in the season-long points race by less than three points, 195.17 to 192.20.
It’s the first time any player other than Niemann, who won two of the first three tournaments, has topped the individual standings this season. Those two will battle it out for the 2024 Individual Championship at this month’s LIV Golf Chicago, while Koepka still has an outside shot at the bonus-paying third place.
Host for LIV Golf Chicago is Bolingbrook Golf Club, designed by architect Arthur Hills and partner Steve Forrest, the course is located just 30 miles from downtown Chicago, and features a 156-yard island green on its signature 15th hole.
The 7,104-yard layout offers plenty of rolling fairways and elevated greens, as the course winds it’s way around seven different lakes. It has played host previously on the PGA Tour’s Forme Tour in 2021 during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now takes a leap up to this year’s LIV Golf Chicago event, where it will be the stage for where we crown the individual champion.
We then can also confirm which players are finalised in the Lock Zone, Open Zone and Drop Zone…
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How does the Team Championships work?
Once we wrap up the Individual title in Chicago it’s onto Dallas for the Team Championships where we will have a better look at which team is leading
the standings.
All 13 LIV teams will compete in the 2024 LIV Golf League Team Championship at Maridoe Golf Club, with the top three receiving first-round byes and automatically qualifying for Saturday’s semifinals (that is already confirmed with the Crushers and Legion XIII who mathematically have already make it through prior to Chicago).
The remaining 10 teams will play in five quarterfinal matches on Friday, with matchup determined during a live drawing of team captains during tournament week. The five winners advance to the semifinals, with the semifinal winners competing for the team title on Sunday. The winning team taking home $14 million.
Maridoe Golf Club is situated north of Dallas and having only opened in 2017, it has gained a strong reputation for it’s strong layout of length, well placed bunkers and undulating greens.
A different venue from last year, but still Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri took the Crushers to the team title, as they look to do the double again this year…. Which if you didn’t know, is in Bryson’s home town.
