LIV Golf Miami: Team by team notes
Apr 1, 2025 - 11:00 AMWritten by: Mike McAllister
Some news and notes from all 13 LIV Golf teams ahead of LIV Golf Miami, the fifth event of the 2025 LIV Golf League season
MIAMI – A quick look at each team going into this week’s LIV Golf Miami. Teams listed in alphabetical order. Player rankings based on current Individual Standings.
4ACES GC
22 Harold Varner III
26 Dustin Johnson ©
T29 Patrick Reed
33 Thomas Pieters
Johnson’s T5 in Singapore is his best individual result since winning 2024 Las Vegas 16 starts ago … Johnson led his team in scoring for first time this season … Varner is only team member to finish with points in each of first four events … Reed qualified for The Open through International Series Macau exemption.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 3rd in Singapore
CLEEKS GC
7 Adrian Meronk
18 Richard Bland
T29 Martin Kaymer ©
T48 Frederik Kjettrup
Bland’s T14 was team’s lone individual points finish in Singapore … Through four events, Bland ranks inside league’s top 10 in fairways hit, scrambling and putting … Team is a collective 28 under in final round but 4 over in the first two rounds … Meronk tied for low final round (64) in last start at International Series Macau.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 12th in Singapore
CRUSHERS GC
14 Paul Casey
16 Bryson DeChambeau ©
T20 Anirban Lahiri
T45 Charles Howell III
Team is tied for first in league in collective fairways hit at 63.84% … Casey ranks 6th, DeChambeau 7th individually in fairways hit … Casey is league’s active streak leader with 188 consecutive holes without a three-putt … Team has three top-5 finishes this season but still seeking first podium result … Crushers won the 2023 Team Championship at Doral.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 5th in Singapore
We did that! 🔥🏆
— Fireballs GC (@fireballsgc_) March 30, 2025
Los Fireballs raised their third straight @livgolf_league team trophy in Singapore and aren't slowing down heading into Miami! pic.twitter.com/caOxr7QHhN
FIREBALLS GC
3 Sergio Garcia ©
6 David Puig
9 Abraham Ancer
38 Luis Masaveu
After wins in Adelaide, Hong Kong and Singapore, team became the first LIV Golf team to win three consecutive events since league expanded to full 14-event schedule starting in 2023 … Team leads league in final-round scoring (51 under) and par-4 scoring (50 under) this season … Garcia is league-leader in fairways hit.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 1st in Singapore
HYFLYERS GC
15 Phil Mickelson ©
17 Cameron Tringale
T41 Andy Ogletree
T45 Brendan Steele
Tringale’s T5 in Singapore is his best LIV Golf result since solo 5th at 2023 Adelaide (a span of 27 regular-season starts) … Mickelson leads league in strokes gained approach long and the team leads league in strokes gained putting … Mickelson’s streak of 3 consecutive points (top 24) finishes is a personal best.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 7th in Singapore
IRON HEADS GC
27 Kevin Na ©
T41 Danny Lee
T45 Yubin Jang
NA Jinichiro Kozuma
Na has three top-20 finishes, his best personal streak in LIV Golf … Team is 47 under on par 5s but a collective 22 over on par 3s and 4s this season … With Kozuma out indefinitely, team filled its roster spot in Singapore via a playoff qualifier among LIV Golf reserves, with John Catlin earning the start.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 11th in Singapore
Fired up to defend our title in Magic City this week 😤#LegionXIII #LIVGolf pic.twitter.com/ZrwR3B3q6P
— Legion XIII (@LegionXIIIgc) March 31, 2025
LEGION XIII
2 Jon Rahm ©
13 Tom McKibbin
23 Tyrrell Hatton
28 Caleb Surratt
Defending Miami champs lead league in par-5 scoring (72 under), second-round scoring (46 under) and overall scoring (117 under) … Rahm has never finished outside top 10 in his 16 completed LIV events … Rahm has shot 21 consecutive rounds under par, a new league record … Surratt leads league in strokes gained on the green (+1.19).
PREVIOUS EVENT: 2nd in Singapore
MAJESTICKS GC
T20 Sam Horsfield
T36 Henrik Stenson ©©
T48 Ian Poulter ©©
T48 Lee Westwood ©©
Stenson ranks second in league in fairways hit this season at 74% … Team is a collective 29 under in the first two rounds this season but 8 over in the final round … Team finished in the points (top 8) in first two tournaments this season but last (13th) in last two starts.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 13th in Singapore
RANGEGOATS GC
11 Ben Campbell
25 Peter Uihlein
34 Bubba Watson ©
39 Matthew Wolff
Campbell’s solo third in Singapore is team’s first individual podium result since Wolff’s third-place last year in Miami … Campbell is the highest-ranked newcomer in the season-long points race … Wolff ranked first in driving distance in Singapore (336.2 yards average) … Wolff shot rounds of 68-69-69 last year at Doral.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 9th in Singapore
RIPPER GC
10 Lucas Herbert
19 Marc Leishman
40 Cameron Smith ©
T48 Matt Jones
Team has two podium and two non-point finishes in 2025 … Team’s collective 33-under is second-best of any team in round two this season … Herbert leads the league in par-5 scoring (25 under) … Smith enters Doral off consecutive top-20 finishes … Leishman was 4 under (eagle, two birdies) on the Blue Monster’s par-4 16th last year.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 10th in Singapore
SMASH GC
8 Brooks Koepka ©
31 Jason Kokrak
35 Graeme McDowell
T48 Talor Gooch
Koepka’s solo second in Singapore is the eighth podium result of his LIV Golf career and his first runner-up finish … Three of his eight podiums have been in Singapore … Gooch was team’s top performer in Miami last year (T9) … Kokrak earned a spot at The Open with a third-place finish at International Series Macau.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 8th in Singapore
STINGER GC
5 Dean Burmester
24 Louis Oosthuizen ©
32 Charl Schwartzel
T41 Branden Grace
Burmester enters Miami as defending champion after beating Sergio Garcia in a playoff last year … Oosthuizen’s T5 in Singapore is his best result in his last seven regular-season starts … Schwartzel is on a streak of three consecutive top 20s … Team is 41 under in the final round, second best performance by any team this season.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 6th in Singapore
TORQUE GC
1 Joaquin Niemann ©
4 Sebastián Muñoz
12 Carlos Ortiz
T42 Mito Pereira
Niemann’s win in Singapore is his second this season and fourth in LIV Golf career, second most of any player … Muñoz has placed top-6 after nine of his first 12 rounds this season, and he has three top-6 finishes … Ortiz enters Miami fresh off his International Series Macau victory that earned him a spot at The Open Championship.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 4th in Singapore
WILD CARDS
T36 Chieh-Po Lee
T48 Anthony Kim
Lee finished T25 in Singapore while Kim finished T47 … Lee ranks third in the league in strokes gained around the green … Kim will be looking for his first points result in his 16th LIV Golf start.