{"id":78422,"date":"2025-08-18T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78422\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:04:09","slug":"2025-liv-golf-team-championship-michigan-finale-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78422\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 LIV Golf Team Championship: Michigan finale preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Everything you need to know about the 2025 LIV Golf Team Championship season finale.\" height=\"584\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/liv-golf-team-championship-preview-main.jpg\"  width=\"876\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tAfter Jon Rahm\u2019s stunning performance to win a second straight Individual Championship in Indianapolis, all eyes turn to Michigan for the LIV Golf Team Championship finale.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not lifting silverware all season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-indy-prize-money-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm defended his Individual Championship<\/a> at The Club at Chatham Hills, with a runner-up finish to edge past Joaquin Niemann atop the season-long standings with a career-best 11-under 60 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who has now surely rupper-stamped his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/ryder-cup\/standings-and-how-to-qualify\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Captain\u2019s Pick for Bethpage Black<\/a>, next eyes the double in Michigan, as the breakaway tour brings down the curtain on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/news-and-events\/tour-news\/liv-golf-2025-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 season<\/a> at the LIV Golf Team Championship.<\/p>\n<p>This year sees a revamp to the format, adopting a more ruthless approach whereby only the winners advance through to the next round. <\/p>\n<p>As top seeds, Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII will have first dibs on selecting their quarter-final opponents, after Majesticks GC and Iron Heads GC first go head-to-head on Wednesday to complete the 12-team line-up. From then on, it\u2019s three days of elimination golf, leading into Sunday\u2019s singles strokeplay showdown where every shot counts.<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Team Championship key details<\/p>\n<p>Dates: August 22-24, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Venue:\u00a0The Cardinal at Saint John\u2019s, Michigan (Par 70 \u2013 6,980 yards)<\/p>\n<p>Format:\u00a0Combination of matchplay (foursomes), and strokeplay<\/p>\n<p>Purse:\u00a0$50 million, with winners receiving a $14 million share<\/p>\n<p>Favorites:\u00a0TBC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ripper-gc-liv-team-champions-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Cameron Smith lifts the 2024 Team Championship trophy for Ripper GC.\" class=\"wp-image-201490\"  \/>Team Championship seedings<\/p>\n<p>Here are the seedings for the LIV Golf Team Championship in Michigan following the action at LIV Golf Indianapolis. Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers pip the Sergio Garcia-led Fireballs to second seeds, with Cleeks doing just enough at the wrong end of the leadboard to avoid Wednesday\u2019s playoff match that finalises the top-12.<\/p>\n<p>SeedingTeamPoints1Legion XIII248.662Crushers GC186.663Fireballs GC185.004Torque GC160.0054Aces GC138.666Ripper GC104.667Stinger GC104.168Smash GC59.509RangeGoats GC45.0010HyFlyers GC34.6611Cleeks Golf Club10.5012Majesticks GC9.1613Iron Heads GC1.00How to watch the LIV Golf Team Championship<\/p>\n<p>In the US, you can see the entire 2025 LIV Golf TV schedule on Fox Sports, while in the UK, all events will be broadcast live on ITVX, with selected tournaments on ITV1 and ITV4.<\/p>\n<p>Who is playing on LIV Golf in 2025?<\/p>\n<p>4Aces GC:\u00a0Dustin Johnson (captain) | Thomas Pieters | Patrick Reed | Harold Varner III<\/p>\n<p>Cleeks GC:\u00a0Martin Kaymer (captain) | Richard Bland | Adrian Meronk | Frederik Kjettrup<\/p>\n<p>Crushers GC:\u00a0Bryson DeChambeau (captain) | Paul Casey | Charles Howell IIII | Anirdban Lahiri<\/p>\n<p>Fireballs GC:\u00a0Sergio Garcia (captain) | Abraham Ancer | Luis Masaveu | David Puig<\/p>\n<p>Hyflers GC:\u00a0Phil Mickelson (captain) | Brendan Steele | Cameron Tringale | Andy Ogletree<\/p>\n<p>Iron Heads GC:\u00a0Kevin Na (captain) | Danny Lee | Yubin Jang | Jinichiro Kozuma<\/p>\n<p>Legion XIII GC:\u00a0Jon Rahm (captain) | Tyrrell Hatton | Caleb Surratt | Tom McKibbin<\/p>\n<p>Majesticks GC:\u00a0Ian Poulter (co-captain) | Lee Westwood (co-capt.) | Henrik Stenson (co-capt.) | Sam Horsfield<\/p>\n<p>RangeGoats GC:\u00a0Bubba Watson (captain) | Peter Uhlein | Matthew Wolff | Ben Campbell<\/p>\n<p>Ripper GC:\u00a0Cameron Smith (captain) | Marc Leishman | Matt Jones | Lucas Herbert<\/p>\n<p>Smash GC:\u00a0Brooks Koepka (captain) | Talor Gooch | Jason Kokrak | Graeme McDowell<\/p>\n<p>Stinger GC:\u00a0Louis Oosthuizen (captain) | Dean Burmester | Branden Grace | Charl Schwartzel<\/p>\n<p>\t\tAbout the author<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.todays-golfer.com\/author\/tg-staff\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"about-author__image-link\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TG staff\" class=\"about-author__author-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tg-logo-grey.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This content is updated regularly by members of the Today&#8217;s Golfer editorial team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"about-author__byline\">Some of our content is designed purely to inform and is kept up to date by a number of different members of the Today&#8217;s Golfer editorial staff, including our team of tour enthusiasts: Alex Perry, Rob Jerram, Sarah Pyett, Ross Tugwood and Rob McGarr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Jon Rahm\u2019s stunning performance to win a second straight Individual Championship in Indianapolis, all eyes turn to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-78422","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\/78422","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=78422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}