RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – The season-opening LIV Golf Riyadh is formally within the books, with two wire-to-wire victories below the lights at Riyadh Golf Membership.
[Related: What is LIV Golf? Format, everything to know about the 2025 season]
Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII led from starting to finish, ending at 50-under par, 11 pictures forward of Ripper GC and RangeGoats GC within the first LIV Golf occasion performed below the brand new format, with all 4 gamers’ scores counting in each spherical.
Rahm (67), Tyrrell Hatton (70), Caleb Surratt (71) and newcomer Tom McKibbin (72) got here into the day with an enormous lead, and powered Legion to victory at Riyadh Golf Membership, their fifth workforce victory since becoming a member of as an growth franchise final season.
On the person facet, the final-round again 9 tightened up down the stretch, however Cleeks GC’s Adrian Meronk completed off a wire-to-wire victory, carding rounds of 62, 66 and 71 to outlast Rahm and Torque GC’s Sebastian Muñoz, who rounded out the rostrum in third. Meronk spent a lot of the again 9 getting pushed by Rahm and Muñoz, however a well timed birdie at 16 finally led to his first victory on the LIV Golf League.
LIV Golf Riyadh: Full Last Spherical Spotlight | Golf on FOX
TEAM SCORES
1. LEGION XIII -50 (Rahm, Hatton, McKibbin, Surratt)
T2. RIPPER GC -39 (Smith, Herbert, Jones, Leishman)
T2. RANGEGOATS -39 (Watson, Campbell, Uihlein, Wolff)
4. CRUSHERS GC -36 (DeChambeau, Casey, Howell III, Lahiri)
5. FIREBALLS GC -34 (Garcia, Ancer, Masaveu, Puig)
6. CLEEKS GC -28 (Bland, Kaymer, Kjettrup, Meronk)
7. TORQUE GC -27 (Niemann, Muñoz, Ortiz, Pereira)
T8. STINGER GC -25 (Oosthuizen, Burmester, Grace, Schwartzel)
T8. MAJESTICKS GC -25 (Poulter, Stenson, Westwood, Horsfield)
10. SMASH GC -23 (Koepka, Gooch, Kokrak, McDowell)
11. 4ACES GC -21 (Johnson, Pieters, Reed, Varner)
12. HYFLYERS GC -18 (Ogletree, Schniederjans, Steele, Tringale)
13. IRON HEADS GC -11 (Na, Jang, Lee, Ormsby)
It is a fast turnaround for the gamers and groups, as the worldwide golf league now travels to Australia for the second occasion of the season, LIV Golf Adelaide, which tees off on Friday.
This piece is courtesy of Mike McAllister in partnership with LIV Golf.
Need nice tales delivered proper to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!
Get extra from LIV Golf Observe your favorites to get details about video games, information and extra
