The red-hot Chilean reached that mark two weeks ago when chalking up a record seventh win on the breakaway league at LIV Golf UK.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He should see things out and win a deserved first Individual Championship, but it’s not a certainty as he heads into LIV Golf Chicago at Bolingbrook Golf Club.<\/p>\n
That’s because despite winning zero times this season, the league’s most expensive signing Jon Rahm<\/a> still has a chance to pip Niemann to the post and defend season honours.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rahm, who is also defending the title at LIV Golf Chicago this week, lies second in the season standings with 169.16 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> is in third place, and while still mathematically possible for him to have a say, it’s effectively a two-man shootout for the Individual Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2025 LIV Golf Standings<\/p>\n Player<\/p>\n Points<\/p>\n Wins<\/p>\n Joaquin Niemann<\/p>\n 206.80<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n Jon Rahm<\/p>\n 169.16<\/p>\n 0<\/p>\n Bryson DeChambeau<\/p>\n 136.24<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n With 40 points on offer for individual victories on LIV Golf, it means there is still a chance Rahm could surge late and deny Niemann.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here’s a look at the breakdown of points:<\/p>\n LIV Golf League Points Distribution Per Event<\/p>\n Position<\/p>\n Points<\/p>\n 1st Place<\/p>\n 40<\/p>\n 2nd Place<\/p>\n 30<\/p>\n 3rd Place<\/p>\n 24<\/p>\n 4th Place<\/p>\n 18<\/p>\n 5th Place<\/p>\n 16<\/p>\n 6th Place<\/p>\n 14<\/p>\n 7th Place<\/p>\n 12<\/p>\n 8th Place<\/p>\n 10<\/p>\n 9th Place<\/p>\n 8<\/p>\n 10th Place<\/p>\n 6<\/p>\n 11th Place<\/p>\n 5<\/p>\n 12th Place<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n 13th Place<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n 14th Place<\/p>\n 4<\/p>\n 15th Place<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 16th Place<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 17th Place<\/p>\n 3<\/p>\n 18th Place<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n 19th Place<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n 20th Place<\/p>\n 2<\/p>\n 21st Place<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 22nd Place<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 23rd Place<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n 24th Place<\/p>\n 1<\/p>\n On current form, it’s unlikely Niemann will finish too far down the board over the next two events, but there is still that possibility.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rahm said during his press conference that’s it’s “essential” he defends in Chicago to pile the pressure on the leader.<\/p>\n Jon Rahm<\/p>\n While that would certainly spice things up for LIV Golf fans heading into next week’s regular season finale in Indianapolis, it’s somewhat of a shock to Niemann that the door hasn’t already been shut.\u00a0<\/p>\n “You’ve won five times this year and he [Rahm] hasn’t won at all, are you surprised that you even have to hold him off,” a reporter put to Niemann during his own press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Yeah, I mean, a little bit, yes,” he replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n Niemann then conceded Rahm’s consistency has kept in the hunt despite not winning.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Obviously Jon has been playing — he’s probably the most consistent player in the world,” continued Niemann.<\/p>\n “He’s been in the top 10, I think, every week that he’s been playing on LIV [Rahm finished T11 in Dallas].\u00a0<\/p>\n “Obviously he has the consistency. Every week that he plays he has a chance to win on Sunday, which is really impressive.”<\/p>\n Niemann then concluded the distribution of points for a victory on LIV Golf should probably be amended moving forwards.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I feel like it’s just the way the point system is right now,” added the Torque GC captain.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I feel like they probably should have more points into winning. That would be awesome in my way.\u00a0<\/p>\n “But it could be the other way next year, which I’m probably not going to win, I don’t know, and I can still have a chance to win on the last two tournaments, I will take that.<\/p>\n “It all depends. In the situation that I am right now, obviously I would love to see more points for winning, but it’s just the way it’s set up.”<\/p>\n Niemann has won five times in 2025<\/p>\n LIV Golf Chicago marks the penultimate event of the regular LIV Golf League season.\u00a0<\/p>\n The final regular season event then takes place next week at LIV Golf Indianpolis.<\/p>\n LIV Golf’s Team Championship then tees off in Michigan the following week to bring the curtain down on the circuit’s fourth season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joaquin Niemann may have dominated the LIV Golf League this season with five wins to his name, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-52710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unnamed-7.jpg\")
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