The LIV Golf Chicago is a professional golf tournament held at Bolingbrook Golf Club in Bolingbrook, Illinois, outside of Chicago. It was held at Rich Harvest Farms in 2022 and 2023.
| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Bolingbrook, Illinois |
| Established | 2022 |
| Course(s) | Bolingbrook Golf Club (2024) |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,408 yards (6,774 m) |
| Tour(s) | LIV Golf MENA Tour |
| Format | Individual and team stroke play |
| Prize fund | US$5,000,000 (individual) US$20,000,000 (team) |
| Month played | September |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 199 Jon Rahm (2024) |
| To par | −13 Cameron Smith (2022) −13 Bryson DeChambeau (2023) |
| Current champion | |
 Jon Rahm | |
| Location map | |
  Rich Harvest Farms Location in the United States  Rich Harvest Farms Location in Illinois | |
The inaugural event was held in September 2022 at Rich Harvest Farms as part of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, a golf series led by Greg Norman and funded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The 48-player field featured several former major championship including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Charl Schwartzel, Patrick Reed and Sergio García,[1] and was won by 2022 Open champion Cameron Smith.[2]
Format
editThe tournament was a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four-man teams were announced on the Monday before the tournament, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth.[3]
Inaugural field
edit48 golfers participated in the inaugural LIV Chicago event.[a]
- Abraham Ancer
- Richard Bland
- Laurie Canter
- Paul Casey
- Eugenio Chacarra
- Bryson DeChambeau (c)
- Sergio García (c)
- Talor Gooch
- Branden Grace
- Sam Horsfield
- Charles Howell III
- Dustin Johnson (c)
- Matt Jones
- Sadom Kaewkanjana
- Martin Kaymer (c)
- Phachara Khongwatmai
- Sihwan Kim
- Brooks Koepka (c)
- Chase Koepka
- Jason Kokrak
- Anirban Lahiri
- Marc Leishman
- Graeme McDowell
- Phil Mickelson (c)
- Jediah Morgan
- Kevin Na (c)
- Joaquín Niemann
- Shaun Norris
- Louis Oosthuizen (c)
- Wade Ormsby (c)
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pat Perez
- Turk Pettit
- James Piot
- David Puig
- Ian Poulter
- Patrick Reed
- Charl Schwartzel
- Cameron Smith
- Henrik Stenson
- Hudson Swafford (c)
- Cameron Tringale
- Peter Uihlein
- Harold Varner III
- Scott Vincent
- Lee Westwood
- Bernd Wiesberger
- Matthew Wolff
Teams
edit- 4 Aces GC: Johnson (c), Gooch, Perez, Reed
- Cleeks GC: Kaymer (c), McDowell, Canter, Bland
- Crusher GC: DeChambeau (c), Casey, Howell III, Lahiri
- Fireball GC: García (c), Ancer, Ortiz, Chacarra
- HY Flyers GC: Mickelson (c), Wiesberger, Wolff, Tringale
- Iron Heads GC: Na (c), Kaewkanjana, Khongwatmai, Kim
- Majesticks GC: Westwood (c), Stenson, Poulter, Horsfield
- Niblicks GC: Swafford, Piot, Pettit, Varner III
- Punch GC: Ormsby, Jones, Leishman, Smith
- Smash GC: B. Koepka (c), C. Koepka, Kokrak, Uihlein
- Stinger GC: Oosthuizen (c), Schwartzel, Grace, Norris
- Torque GC: Niemann, Vincent, Puig, Morgan
Winners
editIndividual
edit| Year | Tour(s)[b] | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Chicago | ||||||
| 2024 | LIV | Jon Rahm |
199 | −11 | 3 strokes | Sergio García Joaquín Niemann
|
| 2023 | LIV, MENA |  Bryson DeChambeau |
200 | −13 | 1 stroke |  Anirban Lahiri Marc Leishman
|
| LIV Golf Invitational Chicago | ||||||
| 2022 | LIV | Cameron Smith |
203 | −13 | 3 strokes | Dustin Johnson Peter Uihlein
|
Team
edit| Year | Winners[a] | Score (to par) |
Margin of victory |
Runners-up[a] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIV Golf Chicago | ||||||
| 2024 | Crushers GC[c] | −14 | 1 stroke | Legion XIII[d] | ||
| 2023 | Crushers GC[c] | −33 | 3 strokes | Fireballs GC[e] | ||
| LIV Golf Invitational Chicago | ||||||
| 2022 | 4Aces GC[f] | −24 | 1 stroke | Smash GC[g] | ||
Notes
edit- ^ a b c (c) – Team captain
- ^ LIV − LIV Golf League; MENA − MENA Tour.
- ^ a b Paul Casey, Bryson DeChambeau (c), Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri
- ^ Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm (c), Caleb Surratt and Kieran Vincent
- ^ Abraham Ancer, Eugenio Chacarra, Sergio García (c) and Carlos Ortiz
- ^ Talor Gooch, Dustin Johnson (c), Pat Perez and Patrick Reed
- ^ Brooks Koepka (c), Chase Koepka, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein
References
edit- ^ "LIV Roster". LIV Golf. June 7, 2022. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
- ^ Priest, Evin (September 18, 2022). "Cam Smith wins LIV Golf's Chicago event, proves he's not 'a worse player' just because he switched tours". Golf Digest. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
- ^ Scrivener, Peter (June 8, 2022). "LIV Golf - all you need to know about Saudi-funded series". BBC Sport. Retrieved June 12, 2022.