Robert TheodorsonLegion XIII are officially your 2025 LIV Golf Team Champions!
The three-way championship between Bryson DeChambeau’s Crushers, Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII, and Louis Oothuizen’s Stinger concluded Sunday afternoon at The Cardinal at Saint John’s along with the 2025 LIV Golf season.
Neck and neck until the very end of regulation, Bryson DeChambeau (8-under; 62) and Jon Rahm (5-under; 65) led their respective teams to dual 20-under par finishes.
DeChambeau, clutch as ever, birdied the final two holes but was matched by Jon Rahm’s score on the 17th, and a clutch putt by Tyrrell Hatton extended Legion XIII’s season.
With all the makings of an unforgettable championship, a playoff between the final top two teams of the 2025 LIV Golf season ensued.
Legion XIII who ended the regular season with the best record in the league would battle the 2023 team champion Crushers, winners of three straight tournaments this season!
First Playoff: For the Crushers, DeChambeau chose his longtime friend and teammate Paul Casey to be his playoff partner while Rahm went with the obvious choice in Hatton, his former (and most likely future) Ryder Cup teammate.
With all potential birdie putts separated by ten feet at the most with Tyrrell Hatton being the inside man, Paul Casey and Jon Rahm failed to score.
The pressure landed on the shoulders DeChambeau, and the Crushers captain delivered once again. Hatton followed with a short birdie putt and so ended the first playoff hole.
Second Playoff: The foursome repeated the 18th hole. Failing to find the fairway, Tyrrell Hatton proceeded to roll his approach shot just outside a foot from the pin. Rahm matched his teammate’s effort in equal fashion.
With DeChambeau’s shot coming up short and landing in the rough and Casey’s birdie putt the furthest out, the end to the round, and the season, appeared a foregone conclusion, and so it was. Jon Rahm, followed by Hatton, scored to seal the deal. The best team all season long ended where they rightfully belonged.
1st – 3rd Place Rankings Final Results
1. Legion XIII (-20; Won Playoffs)
Team Summary: Assuming their roster remains untouched, Legion XIII will go into next season as the favourites to go back-to-back in the team championships.
Before the season, we predicted Legion XIII would win the team championship thanks to the powerhouse duo of Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton. The teammates channelled the Ryder Cup competitive team spirit in overtime and proved that they remain peerless in the league.
Top Performer: Tyrrell Hatton’s last putt in regulation saved Legion XIII’s day and the Englishman was absolute perfection in the playoffs,
2. Crushers (-20; Lost Playoffs)
Team Summary: DeChambeau carried the Crushers all weekend long including the Saturday win against Talor Gooch. While his team could have helped him a bit more, the season should overall be considered a success.
Top Performer: Bryson DeChambeau was clutch as could be all tournament long. Despite not being able to chip in on the second playoff hole, DeChambeau embodied the team spirit and took his Crushers extremely close to their second team championship.
3. Stinger (-12)
Team Summary: Nobody on Stinger really underperformed; the South African team just couldn’t keep pace with just how fantastic the Crushers and Legion XIII were playing on Sunday.
While 12-under par and 3rd place may be disappointing at the moment, looking back at the season we must realise that Stinger got hot at the right time and finishing 3rd in a season that had them looking average for most of the season is quite the accomplishment.
Top Performer: Dean Burmester led the team with a 5-under par 65, birdieing the final two holes. Nobody was mistake-free on Stinger and even if Burmester and two of his teammates made no mistakes, they still would have finished third in the champions’ grouping, that’s how good Legion XIII and the Crushers were.
4th – 12th Place Rankings Final Results
4th – 6th Place
4. Smash (-18)
5. HyFlyers (-14)
6. Torque (-9)
How They Got Here: Bryson DeChambeau’s much-criticised move to have Brooks Koepka play Anirban Lahiri paid off big time as Smash fell 2-1 to the Crushers in the Semis. Smash rallied as a team and bested the HyFlyers by four strokes in the finals.
7th – 9th Place
7. 4 Aces (-17)
8. Fireballs (-13)
9. Ripper (-6)
How They Got Here: Cam Smith’s reigning champion Ripper squad was unable to hold off Stinger in the Quarters as Oosthuizen’s team got the better of Ripper in the hotly contested rivalry match.
Sergio’s Fireballs were swept by the suddenly resurgent HyFlyers. Thomas Pieters (-7), Dustin Johnson (-5), and Patrick Reed (-5) led the 4 Aces to a convincing win in the finals despite Abraham Ancer’s round of 63.
10th – 12th Place
10. RangeGoats (-7)
11. Majesticks (-6)
12. Cleeks (+1)
How They Got Here: Cam Smith’s reigning champion Ripper squad was unable to hold off Stinger in the Quarters.
Despite Adrian Meronk’s win over Jon Rahm in the Quarters, the Cleeks fell twice to end up battling to stay out of last place which did not work out well for them. The RangeGoats triumphed in part to Ben Campbell and Bubba Watson’s rounds of 66 each.
13th Place
13. Iron Heads (DNQ)
How They Got Here: After losing the initial play-in match versus the Majestics, Kevin Na’s Iron Heads were unable to participate during the weekend and automatically finished in last place.
With the 2025 LIV Golf season officially concluded, all attention will turn towards possible selections for The Ryder Cup in September.
Bryson DeChambeau and Tyrrell Hatton have already been confirmed by their respective teams. It was fitting that the LIV Golf finale featured them both, in a playoff no less.
Jon Rahm is the most obvious selection for either side while the only real option for the Americans is Patrick Reed who finished 7th overall in the individual standings and a win in Dallas.
Following the Ryder Cup, several LIV stars will participate in The International Series which is hosting three tournaments in October and closes out with more action until the finale at the Riyadh Golf Club, November 19 – 22.
In the upcoming weeks, we will post our end-of-season superlatives, awards, and what LIV got right (and wrong) about the 2025 season, for a cumulative season review.
