{"id":74872,"date":"2025-08-18T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74872\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:45:06","slug":"top-3-lock-zone-and-relegated-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74872\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 3, Lock Zone and Relegated Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

WESTFIELD, Ind. \u2013 Sebastian Munoz<\/a> and Torque GC<\/a> swept the individual and team titles at LIV Golf Indianapolis, but there were plenty of other news, notes and stats from the final round at Chatham Hills.<\/p>\n

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\nLIV GOLF INDIANAPOLIS ROUND 3 NOTES
\nTOP 3<\/p>\n

Legion XIII<\/a> Captain Jon Rahm<\/a>, Torque GC<\/a> Captain Joaquin Niemann<\/a> and Crushers GC<\/a> Captain Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> finished 1-2-3, respectively, in the final season-long standings. Each will earn a bonus for finishing in the top three. It\u2019s the second consecutive year for Rahm and Niemann to finish 1-2, while DeChambeau finishes in the top 3 for the first time in his LIV Golf career.<\/p>\n

LOCK ZONE<\/p>\n

HyFlyers GC<\/a> Captain Phil Mickelson<\/a>, an original LIV Golf member, finished in the Lock Zone (top 24 in points) for the first time in his LIV Golf career. Mickelson finished 24th in points; the top 24 are guaranteed spots for next season.<\/p>\n

Another LIV Golf captain, RangeGoats GC<\/a>\u2019s Bubba Watson<\/a>, also finished in the Lock Zone for the first time at 11th. Watson tied for 8th in Indianapolis, his fourth top-10 finish in his last eight starts.<\/p>\n

Other first-time Lock Zone finishers include: young Fireballs GC<\/a> star David Puig<\/a> (10th), 4Aces GC<\/a>\u2019s Thomas Pieters<\/a> (19th) and first-year-LIV Golf player Tom McKibbin<\/a> (20th) of Legion XIII.<\/p>\n

RELEGATED PLAYERS<\/p>\n

Majesticks Co-Captain Henrik Stenson<\/a> (49th in points) was one of five team players relegated after finishing in the Drop Zone (49th and below) in the season-long points standings. The other relegated players are HyFlyers GC<\/a>\u2019s Andy Ogletree<\/a> (50), Torque GC<\/a>\u2019s Mito Pereira<\/a> (51), Iron Heads GC<\/a>\u2019s Yubin Jang<\/a> (53) and Cleeks Golf Club<\/a>\u2019s Frederik Kjettrup<\/a> (T55). Jang and Kjettrup were in their first year in the league.<\/p>\n

In addition, wild-card player Anthony Kim<\/a> (T55) also was relegated.<\/p>\n

Stenson and his fellow co-captain Ian Poulter battled for most of the day to avoid relegation, with each player moving in and out of the projected Drop Zone. Poulter closed with a flourish, with four consecutive birdies late in his round to shoot 67 and finish T17, his second top-20 this season. Stenson bogeyed three of his first six holes en route to a 1-over 72 to tie for 22nd.<\/p>\n

In the end, the difference between Poulter and Stenson in points was 0.38 \u2013 essentially a one-shot difference.<\/p>\n

PEREIRA AFTER RELEGATION<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointment of relegation, Torque GC\u2019s Mito Pereira was happy to end the regular season with a team title, and he\u2019ll get another chance to win the LIV Golf Team Championship next week in Michigan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy to get this win,\u201d he said after shooting 8 under to finish T36. \u201cEverybody was working for it, and to do it in the last tournament is just a really good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEEDS SET FOR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP<\/p>\n

Jon Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII enter next week\u2019s Michigan Team Championship as the top seed on the strength of their four tournament wins and four other podium finishes. Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers GC are the No. 2 seed and Sergio Garcia\u2019s Fireballs GC are No. 3. The top seeds entering Friday\u2019s Quarterfinals will get to select their opponent.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the seeds are as follows: 4) Torque GC; 5) 4Aces GC; 6) Ripper GC; 7) Stinger GC; 8) Smash GC; 9) RangeGoats GC; 10) HyFlyers GC; 11) Cleeks GC; 12) Majesticks GC; and 13) Iron Heads GC.<\/p>\n

PLAY-IN OPPONENTS SET<\/p>\n

The last two seeds in the standings \u2013 Majesticks and Iron Heads \u2013 will participate in a play-in match on Wednesday, with all players on both teams participating. Two singles and one foursomes (alternate-shot) match will take place, with the team winning at least two of those matches advancing to Friday\u2019s Quarterfinals. The losing team will see its season end.<\/p>\n

17TH TROPHY SWEEP<\/p>\n

The sweep of both the tournament individual and team trophies by Torque GC on Sunday is the 17th time in LIV Golf history that a team has swept both trophies at a single tournament. It\u2019s the fifth time this season, and the second consecutive week, with Stinger GC and Dean Burmester sweeping the trophies in Chicago.<\/p>\n

RECORD LOW<\/p>\n

Torque GC\u2019s winning score of 64 under shatters the previous low score for a winning LIV Golf team, which was 53 under initially set by Ripper GC at 2024 Adelaide (Stinger GC also shot that score but lost in a playoff) and Smash GC later in the season at Greenbrier.<\/p>\n

REGULAR-SEASON STAT LEADERS<\/p>\n

With the regular season now complete, here are the leaders in key statistical categories for the entire season:<\/p>\n

Driving accuracy \u2013 Henrik Stenson 72.34%
\nDriving distance \u2013 Joaquin Niemann, 330.7 yards average
\nGreens in regulation \u2013 Jon Rahm, 74.50%
\nScrambling \u2013 Bryson DeChambeau, 66.97%
\nPutting average \u2013 Caleb Surratt, Charl Schwartzel, Cameron Smith, 1.54
\nMost birdies \u2013 Jon Rahm, 194
\nMost eagles \u2013 Bubba Watson, 12<\/p>\n

RECORD-SCORING ROUND<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s field average of 66.537 was 4.463 strokes under par, making it the lowest-scoring round in LIV Golf history. Each of the previous two rounds had set the same record \u2013 68.519 in Friday\u2019s first round, then 68.204 in Saturday\u2019s second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WESTFIELD, Ind. \u2013 Sebastian Munoz and Torque GC swept the individual and team titles at LIV Golf Indianapolis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}