Team-by-team notes: LIV Golf Mexico City

MEXICO CITY – A quick look at each team going into this week’s LIV Golf Mexico City at Club de Golf Chapultepec (players listed with current season-long Individual rankings).

4ACES

17 Harold Varner III
21 Patrick Reed
28 Dustin Johnson (captain)
35 Thomas Pieters

Team has back-to-back podium results for first time since four consecutive podiums to start 2023 season … Varner is one of five league players to finish with points (top 24) in each event in 2025 … Reed’s T7 in Miami is his best result in his last eight LIV Golf starts … Johnson (2017, 2019) and Reed (2020) have won previous pro events in Mexico City … Reed finished 3rd at Masters.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 3rd in Miami

CLEEKS

9 Adrian Meronk
22 Richard Bland
33 Martin Kaymer (captain)
T51 Frederik Kjettrup

Team enters Mexico seeking their first points finish since the season opener … Bland has not suffered back-to-back non-points finishes since the middle of the 2023 season … Team is a collective 27 under in final rounds this season but 50 over in first two rounds … Kjettrup looking for his first points finish since joining LIV Golf.

PREVIOUS EVENT: T11 in Miami

CRUSHERS

15 Bryson DeChambeau (captain)
19 Paul Casey
23 Anirban Lahiri
37 Charles Howell III

Runner-up finish in Miami was team’s first podium result in 2025 … DeChambeau’s solo 5th in Miami is his best result in last nine LIV Golf starts; he now has three top 10s this season … Howell’s T12 in Miami is his best result since returning late last season from a leg injury that kept him out 12 weeks … DeChambeau comes off T5 at Masters.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 2nd in Miami

FIREBALLS

2 Sergio Garcia (captain)
6 David Puig
13 Abraham Ancer
42 Luis Masaveu

Team’s three-tournament win streak ended with solo fifth in Miami … Garcia’s solo third is his second podium this season (won in Hong Kong) … Puig has top-20 finishes in all five starts, including three top 10s … Team leads league in Rd. 3 scoring at 43 under and par 4 scoring at 24 under … Garcia shares league-lead in scrambling.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 5th in Miami

HYFLYERS

12 Phil Mickelson (captain)
20 Cameron Tringale
T45 Andy Ogletree
T49 Brendan Steele

Team has finished with points (top 8) in four consecutive tournaments, longest streak in their history … Mickelson’s streak of 4 consecutive points (top 24) finishes is a personal best … Tringale is one of five players in the league with points in each tournament this season … Steele tied for best scrambling percentage in Miami field … Mickelson won 2018 pro event in Mexico City.
PREVIOUS EVENT: 7th in Miami

IRON HEADS

31 Kevin Na (captain)
30 Danny Lee
T49 Yubin Jang
NA Jinichiro Kozuma

Team registered its first points (top 8) finish in Miami … Lee’s T9 in Miami is his first top 10 in his last eight starts and his fourth career LIV Golf top 10 … Na ranked second in Miami field in fairways hit … Young-han Song finished inside the top 24 in a reserve role in Miami … Kozuma has yet to play this year due to injury.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 8th in Miami

LEGION XIII

3 Jon Rahm (captain)
16 Tom McKibbin
26 Tyrrell Hatton
32 Caleb Surratt

Team leads league in par-5 scoring (86 under), second-round scoring (37 under) and overall scoring (98 under) … Rahm has never finished outside top 10 in his 17 completed LIV events … McKibbin has finished top 15 in four of his first five LIV Golf starts … Rahm and Hatton each finished tied for 14th at the Masters.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 4th in Miami

MAJESTICKS

24 Sam Horsfield
T40 Henrik Stenson (co-captain)
T51 Ian Poulter (co-captain)
T51 Lee Westwood (co-captain)

Team finished in the points (top 8) in first two tournaments this season but last (13th) in last three starts … Stenson ranks first in league in fairways hit this season at 72.38% and has led the field in that category in three of the first five events … Team is a collective 2 over in the first two rounds this season but 27 over in the final round.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 13th in Miami

RANGEGOATS

18 Ben Campbell
25 Peter Uihlein
36 Bubba Watson (captain)
43 Matthew Wolff

Watson finished top 10 in both fairways hits and driving distance in Miami … Campbell is only 2025 newcomer to lead his team in individual points … Uihlein has finished with points (top 24) in four of the first five tournaments this season … Watson comes off a T14 at the Masters, his best result in any major since 2019.

PREVIOUS EVENT: T11 in Miami

RIPPER

4 Marc Leishman
11 Lucas Herbert
29 Cameron Smith (captain)
44 Matt Jones

Team won its fifth title (including 2024 Team Championship) in club history with victory in Miami … Was only team to break par in final round in Miami … Leishman’s win in Miami was his first of any kind since partnering with Smith for a victory in 2021 on the PGA Tour … Leishman leads the league in par 3 scoring.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 1st in Miami

SMASH

10 Brooks Koepka (captain)
34 Jason Kokrak
38 Talor Gooch
39 Graeme McDowell

Gooch’s T12 in Miami is his best result and first points finish this season … Team has one points finish in first five events … Koepka has three top 20 finishes this season … Gooch’s three career LIV Golf wins have each come outside his native United States … Koepka is the career LIV Golf leader in most individual wins (5).

PREVIOUS EVENT: T9 in Miami

STINGER

5 Dean Burmester
14 Charl Schwartzel
27 Louis Oosthuizen (captain)
T45 Branden Grace

One of just three teams to finish with points (top 8) in each of the first five events … Third in the league in par 5 scoring this season … Schwartzel’s solo 2nd in Miami is his best individual result since winning the inaugural LIV Golf event in London in 2022 … Schwartzel leads the league in putting and is tied for league-best in scrambling.

PREVIOUS EVENT: 6th in Miami

TORQUE

1 Joaquin Niemann (captain)
8 Carlos Ortiz
7 Sebastián Muñoz
T45 Mito Pereira

Only team in league with three individual players inside top 10 in points … Team has had at least one top-6 individual finisher in four of the season’s first five events … Ortiz lead the Miami field in birdies with 16 … Team had streak of four consecutive points finishes snapped in Miami.

PREVIOUS EVENT: T9 in Miami

WILD CARDS

T40 Chieh-Po Lee
T51 Anthony Kim

Kim’s T29 in Miami is his best result since returning after 12-year retirement from golf … Kim will be looking for his first points result in his 17th LIV Golf start … Lee finished T53 in Miami.

RESERVES: John Catlin, Max Ruttluff, Luis Carrera