LIV Golf Chicago: First Have a look at Bolingbrook Golf Membership

BOLINGBROOK, Unwell. – LIV Golf returns to Bolingbrook Golf Membership for the second consecutive yr for this week’s LIV Golf Chicago, the twelfth event of the 14-event 2025 season.

When: Aug. 8-10, 2025

The place: Bolingbrook Golf Membership in Bolingbrook, Illinois

Competitors: Three rounds (54 holes of stroke play)

Discipline: 54 gamers (13 groups of 4 gamers every, and two wild playing cards)

Defending champions: Jon Rahm (particular person), Crushers GC (crew)

Shotgun Begin native timeRd. 1, 11:05 a.m. CTRd. 2, 12:05 p.m. CT Rd. 3, 9:05 a.m. CT

Chicago is the one metropolis to have hosted a LIV Golf event in every of the league’s first 4 seasons. 

Two regular-season tournaments are left within the 2025 LIV Golf season, with the Particular person Championship race; Lock Zone, Open Zone and Drop Zone standing; and seedings for the Crew Championship at stake.

Joaquin Niemann has a commanding lead within the Particular person Championship race after successful his fifth event of the season at LIV Golf UK by JCB and may clinch the title in Chicago.

Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII additionally has a commanding lead for the highest seed within the crew standings after their fourth win of the season in England.

Legion XIII has gained eight of its first 25 tournaments — and reached the rostrum 5 different occasions — since becoming a member of LIV Golf because the league’s first enlargement crew.

Rahm outdueled Niemann a yr in the past at Bolingbrook to win the season-long Particular person Championship.

RangeGoats GC Captain Bubba Watson (second in LIV Golf UK) and Legion XIII’s Caleb Surratt (third) come off the most effective particular person outcomes of their LIV Golf careers.

Surratt, 21, is the youngest participant within the league, and 4 different gamers 23 or youthful additionally completed with factors in England — Josele Ballester (T7), Tom McKibbin (T11), David Puig (T18) and Yubin Jang (T21).

Niemann’s five-win season has given him a commanding lead within the season-long Particular person Championship race, and the Torque GC captain has a possibility to clinch the title at LIV Golf Chicago.

Niemann has 206.80 factors with two regular-season tournaments left. The one gamers with a mathematical likelihood of catching him are Rahm (169.16 factors) and Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau (136.24 factors).

In response to the most recent chance percentages from LIV Golf’s knowledge analysts, Niemann has an 84.12% likelihood of successful the Particular person Championship this season whereas Rahm has a 15.70% likelihood. The longshot, DeChambeau, has a 0.18% likelihood.

With 40 factors for a person event win, Rahm — the defending LIV Golf Particular person Champion — has an opportunity to take excessive spot after Chicago if he posts his first win this season, whereas Niemann finishes solo 18th or worse. 

In the meantime, DeChambeau’s solely hope of remaining within the race is to win in Chicago whereas Niemann finishes solo eleventh or worse.

As for Niemann, if he wins in Chicago, he’ll clinch the Particular person Championship previous to the regular-season finale subsequent week in Indianapolis. It will be a turnaround from the regular-season finale final yr at Bolingbrook, through which Rahm gained the season-long race by successful the event over Niemann.

There are a number of different situations through which Niemann might clinch the title at Bolingbrook, as he merely wants to accumulate 2.37 extra factors than Rahm and never have DeChambeau win. For instance, if Rahm finishes solo eleventh this week and Niemann finishes solo ninth, then Niemann will clinch the title.

Niemann has averaged simply 1.13 factors within the six tournaments that he has not gained. The large variance of his win-or-miss outcomes has allowed the extra constant Rahm to stay within the race regardless of simply two podiums and no wins this season. Rahm averages 15.37 factors per winless begin this season.

This piece is courtesy of Mike McAllister in partnership with LIV Golf.

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