LIV Golf 2025: Schedule, News, Rules, New Season Changes after Tom McKibbin is joined by the line | Golf news

Responding to the key questions and explanation of changes in need for knowledge ahead of the fourth season of LIV Golf, and the third in the league format, on the eve of the opener of the Saudi 2025 series in Riyadh.

Who joined in 2025?

Although none of the LIV signings this winter was seismic as well as the arrival of Jon Rahma for 2024, the Saudi league still managed to sign one of the stars in the established tour in Northern Ireland Tom McKibbin.

McKibbin, a 22-year-old, called ‘Next Rory McIlroy’ after greeted from the same Holywood golf club as the four-time main champion, joined the Rahm’s XII team. and 20-year-old Caleb Surratt.

McKibbin is one of six new participants in the field of 54 players for this year.

New Zealand Ben Campbell (Rangegoats GC) South Korea Yang yu-bin (Iron heads GC), Denmark Frederik Kjettrup (Cleeks GC) and Spain Luis Masave (Fireballs GC) are signed by teams while Chieh-Pa Lee From the Chinese Tapedo, he earned his place as Wildcard with a win in the qualifying event LIV Golf Promotions.

What is different in the 2025 schedule?

Golf Liv season again will consist of 14 tournaments But this year it contains six new courses.

The season begins on 6 to 8 February with a new flood event in Riyadh after Saudi Arabia’s circle was transferred from the previous home to Royal Greens Golf & Country Club.

The Mexican event in April is played on the second course – Club Golf de Chapultepec, which is located right outside Mexico City – while South Korea will take the tournament for the first time at the beginning of May at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club.

After a year of absence, Liv will return to Washington DC in June, this time at the Robert Trent Jones golf club, with Dallas to schedule in the summer after setting the team championship finals in 2024.

The individual finals of the championship this year will be concluded at a new place at the club in Chatham Hills in Indianapolis 15th to 17th August, a week before the team opted on the Cardinal at the Saint John Course in Michigan.

Where and when did the events of Liv Golf League happen in 2025?

6-8. February – Liv Golf Riyadh – Riyadh Golf Club

14. -16. February – Liv Golf Adelaide – Gorange Golf Club

7-9 March – Liv Golf Hong Kong – Hong Kong Golf Club

March 14 and 16 – Liv Golf Singapore – Sentos Golf Club

4-6. April – Liv Golf Miami – Blue monster in Trump National Doral

25. to 27 April – Liv Golf Mexico City – Club de Golf Chapultepec

2-4 May – Liv Golf Korea – Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea

6th and 8th June – Liv Golf Washington DC – Robert Trent Jones Golf Club

27 and 29 June – Liv Golf Dallas – Maridoe Golf Club

11th to July 13th – Liv Golf Andalucia – The real club Valderrama

25. to July 27 – LIV Golf UK – JCB Golf and Country Club

8. to 10 August – Liv Golf Chicago – Bolingbrook Golf Club

15. to 17 August – Liv Golf Indianapolis – Club on Chatham Hills

22. and August 24 – Type Championship – Liv Golf Michigan – Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort

What else is different for 2025 years?

In a significant change at the top of the LIV Golf organization, Greg Norman He stepped down after three years in a major executive role.

Norman, a double main winner, was considered to be one of the most detained figures in the civic war of Golf and, at the height of the tension between the burglary of the series and the established tours of 2022, he was strongly criticized and invited to deviate Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

Australian was replaced by an experienced American executive director Scott O’Neilwhich comes from a sports and fun wallpaper, holding older roles on the NBA -in the Philadelphia 76ers and, lately, the Merlin Enterinments Team Park operator.

Another notable change for LIV 2025 comes in the form of a perennial new American TV with Fox Sports, while they have applied for the leading creator of the Content of Golf Rick Shiels as Ambassador. Elsewhere there were notable commercial offers, including Rahma and his Legion XII.

Which players were already involved?

RahmaThe Masters 2023 and 2021. The US Open Champion returns for their second season after winning a single championship at their debut campaign and at the top of the money list.

Former main winners Phil Mickelson, Cameron Smith,, Dustin Johnson,, Bubba Watson,, Brooks Koeka,, Bryson Dechabbeau – whose Crushers GC Side won the 2024 championship – everyone is coming back for the new season.

Sergio Garcia,, Ian Poulter,, Lee Westwood,, Martin Kaymer and Paul Casey Are the other experienced names part of the LIV field.

Mickelson will be absent from Riyadh opener due to a shoulder injury, but he is expected to return to the next event in Adelaida. He is replaced by the spare player Ollie Schniederans on the Saudi field, who won his Asian tour tournament last week.

What is the state of conversation about golf unification?

He has now been over a year since the target date of New Year’s Eve in 2023 and passed without an announced agreement between LIV’s supporters, the Saudi Arab Fund for Public Investments, PGA Tour and the DP World Tourism to unexpectedly announce the Framework Agreement June 2023 .

Despite the abundance of reports since then suggesting that the resolution was immediate, there was no final breakthrough that still continued the conversations between key players.

But there were still many examples in the last year to show that relationships between the parties had significantly thawed from the early hostilities over the launch of the mead and the defeat of the main names.

One -time critic Luka Mcilroy spoke about the advantages of an agreementwhile Commissioner PGA Tour Jay Monahan even played a Golf Circle along with PIF governor Yasir al-Rumayyan at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

However, the final contract and the agreed plan forward has not yet been established.

What is the Format of the LIV tournament?

Each LIV Golf event is played for three days, which means that the tournaments are 54 holes in length. No cutting.

Fields consists of 54 players – 52 of which is attached to one of 13 teams, while there are two wild signs (which this year Lee Chieh -Po and return Anthony Kim) – with the start of the shotgun every day, which will start with a shotgun, which See players starting at the same time in groups in all 18 holes.

There is a single and winner of the team of every event. Points are awarded for the final positions calculated on the entire seasonal individual and team championships.

The individual winner of each tournament decides the lowest result at the end of the third day.

In the team competition, the first three three -team players with the first two rounds before all four of the computer results for the last round. The combined lowest result of the team at the end of the tournament is the winner.

How does the championship chart work?

The individual championship is determined by points that the players have collected during the first 13 events of the year. The top 24 finishers earn points on the sliding ladder at each event, and the winner got 40 and the second place took 30 and third awarded 24.

Only 24 players in the seasonal ladder are guaranteed their place in 2026 in the league, and those who end between 25 and 48 – provided that they are not contracts – then they should be rewrited by their team or to choose more.

They 49. And below they will be thrown out of the league and should enter the Golf Promotion Tournament in 2024, which will be held later in the year.

For the team championship, only the top eight teams in each tournament earn points, and 32 are given to the winning side.

One of the teams will also not be able to qualify for the team of the season in the season, and the seeds are in place for 12 teams that break through it. The team in 13th place will not compete, but will continue to attend. The top 12 teams after the event of the 13th of the regular part of the season will be sown. A team that ends in 13th place will not compete but will continue to attend.

Can the LIV players play in Ryder Cup?

While flaws with established tours remained forbidden to play at PGA Tour, PGA of America confirmed that in September they could appear at the American Ryder Cup team in Bethpage Black in New York.

Any American player who qualifies through the Ryder Cup Points system or Captain Keegan Bradley assigns to WildCard choices.

European players can also be found on the side of Donald’s port, provided they have maintained membership at the World Tour DP playing four events in the season, except they paid fines and served any prohibition. Rahm and Hatton have appealed to their fines for appearance on Liv Events, with the date of hearing that has yet to be set up so that they remain in a strong claim.

Can LIV players earn points already?

After acknowledged last year by defeating their offer to get points at world ranking awarded for their tournaments after being rejected by the official World Golf Ranging (OWGR), LIV Players currently earn points only when playing in majorettes – if they are acceptable or I will Exemption – on a World Tour of DP if they fill in certain criteria or appear on other satellite trips.

Rahm, for example, slipped from third to 43. The ladder since he moved to LIV, playing on only eight tournaments that have been counting ranking since then – three major, the Paris Olympics and four DP World Tour events.

Since February 2025, Hatton has been a player with the highest LIV rank in OWGR in eighth place.