Team Championship match play records – and 15 facts you should know

CARROLLTON, Texas – For the third consecutive year, the LIV Golf Team Championship will use a match-play format for the first two rounds this week in Dallas. Here are 15 facts you should know about the league’s match-play history:

• The players with the most wins without a defeat are Cameron Tringale and Peter Uihlein, who are each 3-0

• Just two players have competed in all four match-play rounds – Graeme McDowell (3-1) and Richard Bland (2-2)

• McDowell is the only player to compete in foursomes in every round; Bland has played two singles matches

• Harold Varner III is the only non-captain to beat a captain, defeating Brooks Koepka in the 2022 quarterfinals (Bubba Watson was a non-playing captain that year)

• Six players have won both a singles match and a foursomes match

• Patrick Reed’s Ryder Cup record in singles is 3-0 but he’s 0-2 in the Team Championship

• Reed's 4Aces teammates Dustin Johnson, Pat Perez and Harold Varner III are a collective 6-0 in their matches

• Crushers GC are the defending Team Champions, but the team’s foursomes duo of Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri are 0-2

• Four of the 48 matches in the first two years have gone to extra holes

• The 2022 singles match between Stinger GC Captain Louis Oosthuizen and Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau is the longest in Team Championship history, with Oosthuizen winning in 23 holes

• The shortest match in Team Championship history is Torque GC’s Sebastian Munoz’s 7 & 6 win over Stinger’s Branden Grace in the 2023 semifinals

• The two teams that have swept their opponents in the quarterfinals were then subsequently swept in the ensuing semifinals – Majesticks in 2022, Stinger in 2023

• No teams have faced each other more than once in the first two years

• Phil Mickelson is the only player to compete in three matches without a win; he has lost to Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson in singles

• Nine players will make their LIV Golf match play debuts in Dallas – the Legion XIII lineup of Jon Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Caleb Surratt and Kieran Vincent; Cleeks GC’s Adrian Meronk and Kalle Samooja; Ripper GC’s Lucas Herbert; HyFlyers GC’s Andy Ogletree; and Iron Heads GC’s Jinichiro Kozuma

TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH PLAY RECORDS

Of the 52 players competing this week in Dallas, 43 have played in at least one previous Team Championship. Here are their records, in order of most wins: