LIV Golf Nashville concluded on Sunday at The Grove in College Grove, Tennessee.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt was part of the field. He finished tied for 25th place (-5), 14 strokes behind winner Tyrrell Hatton (-19).
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII (-40) won the team event at LIV Golf Nashville, finishing five strokes ahead of Crushers GC.
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LIV Golf format
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt is part of the field. He is tied for 27th place (-3) after the second-round on Saturday. Tyrrell Hatton (-13) is in first place entering Sunday’s final round.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII enters third-round play in first place (-28), five strokes ahead of Crushers GC (-23).
Photo by Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images
LIV Golf format
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
A look at former Vol Caleb Surratt’s first-round results at LIV Golf Nashville.
LIV Golf Nashville is being held, Friday-Sunday, at The Grove in College Grove, Tennessee.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt is part of the field. He is tied for 20th place (-1) after the first-round on Friday. Abraham Ancer is in first place (-7) after round No. 1.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII enters Saturday’s second-round in fourth place (-8), six strokes behind Fireballs GC (-14).
Photo by Manuel Velasquez/Getty Images
LIV Golf format
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
In the world before LIV Golf, he would have just finished his sophomore season at Tennessee.
NASHVILLE — Across professional golf’s great divide, there’s Caleb Surratt. Barely age 20, supremely gifted and LIV-ing it up in a fashion unimaginable just a few years ago.
In that world before LIV Golf, Surratt would have just finished his sophomore season at Tennessee. He’d be well on his way to the most accomplished men’s golf career in Vols history, having been an All-American and the SEC’s individual champion and freshman of the year in 2023. At the time, Surratt was one of the world’s best amateur players.
And that’s why he’s no longer an amateur.
In January, Surratt signed with LIV Golf, accepting an offer to leave school at 19 and turn pro. As a part of Jon Rahm’s LIV team, he’ll chip and putt for good ol’ Legion XIII.
Surratt was at The Grove on Monday, teeing it up there for the first time to help promote the Nashville area’s new LIV event.
“What every young player wants, right, is a place to play professional golf?” Surratt told me beforehand. “It’s not too often that you’re given an opportunity like this as a top college player. So to be able to receive that, it was a no-brainer for me, and I’m very thankful for it.”
As a leading figure in a tantalizing generation of up-and-coming talent in golf (and, of late, in SEC golf), Surratt thrived on last year’s victorious U.S. Walker Cup team alongside other future stars like Alabama’s Nick Dunlap and Vanderbilt’s Gordon Sargent.
While Sargent announced in April that he’d return to Vanderbilt for his senior season, thus putting off joining the PGA Tour for a year, Dunlap abruptly turned pro after a stunning victory in January as an amateur at the PGA Tour’s American Express.
Barely a week later, Surratt joined his friend Dunlap in turning pro. Though, Surratt said, the timing of the two “was just a coincidence.”
Caleb Surratt tees off on the 11th tee on the Nicklaus Tournament Course at the American Express in La Quinta, California. (Photo: Jay Calderon/Desert Sun)
“I can honestly say that in December I had no idea this was going to happen,” Surratt said of the LIV deal. “… I was focused on college golf. I was focused on what it was going to look like a few years down the road when I would turn pro. When the opportunity came, it was just too good to be true. I wasn’t expecting it. It came out of nowhere.”
By late January, there were rumbles about Surratt and LIV. They’d been fueled in part by the fact that during Dunlap’s American Express win, LIV’s Phil Mickelson tweeted about “the youngest and most talented group of players I’ve seen.” Lefty named a group including Dunlap, Sargent and Surratt, saying it’ll “be a force for decades.”
Once it happened, there was a lot to unpack with Surratt’s move to LIV. Amid such a testy climate in golf, Surratt’s move was a meaningful precedent. The PGA and LIV Tours have talked about reconciliation, but it doesn’t appear close to happening anytime soon.
This showed that LIV was willing to take golf’s battleground deep into the college ranks, plucking a top teenage talent and preempting his PGA Tour push before it could begin.
It made sense, at least in the short term, for Surratt to immediately cash in on his pro potential with a guaranteed windfall rather than perhaps having to grind through the Korn Ferry Tour or Q-School in the future.
Starting LIV so soon, however, has had its difficulties.
At an event earlier this year, English golfer Tyrrell Hatton had to help Surratt check in to a hotel, because Surratt wasn’t old enough to secure the room. It’s a situation that still gets a smile out of the youngster.
“I’ve had to deal with a lot that I didn’t know I’d have to deal with,” he said.
While sides have been drawn and golfers in recent years have been criticized for leaving the PGA Tour to join LIV’s dark side, Surratt’s move wasn’t the same. He didn’t leave one tour for another. He left college.
And in a lot of ways, he’s still a starry-eyed college kid. While a North Carolina native, he still lives in Knoxville. Has no plans to leave. Has a girlfriend there. Hangs out with his same friends.
It’s just every so often, he’ll get to go and tee it up with golfers like Rahm, Hatton, Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau.
“Those are guys that you look up to all your life,” Surratt said. “You read Phil Mickelson’s ‘how-to’ short game books. … For a really long time, I couldn’t stop thinking about how cool this is and I was kind of shocked by the moment and phased by it.
“Now I’m trying to tell myself that I belong to be out there.”
A pair of caddies are taking their talents to the Saudi-backed league.
LIV Golf’s Phil Mickelson and Caleb Surratt have dipped into the PGA Tour caddie ranks for not one but two regular caddies, sources tell Golfweek.
Mickelson announced on social media that his younger brother, Tim, who had served as his caddie for the past eight years including during the 2021 PGA Championship victory at Kiawah, has retired as his caddie. But he didn’t name a replacement. Golfweek has learned that veteran caddie Jon Yarbrough will be on the bag starting next week at the LIV Golf Miami event and the following week at the Masters.
Yarbrough, who has caddied for more than 20 years and for Scott Stallings for the past decade, won’t be on the bag for him this week at the Tour event in Houston. Yarbrough has previously caddied for the likes of Gary Woodland, Bill Haas, Smylie Kaufman and on the LPGA for Kelly Robbins, Morgan Pressel and Suzann Pettersen. Stallings, 39, made the Tour Championship in 2022 but is winless since the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open and has missed the cut in five of eight starts this season. Stallings is expected to have his swing coach on his bag this week. According to a source, Stallings and Yarbrough are very close, but the amount of guaranteed money offered “was incredible.” Reached via phone, Yarbrough declined to comment.
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That’s not the only LIV Golf caddie change. Caleb Surratt, who signed with LIV out of Tennessee earlier this year and joined Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII, has wooed Brian Dilley, another veteran Tour caddie, who had been on the bag of Akshay Bhatia, to take over for him. Dilley is tight with Adam Hayes, the caddie for Rahm, and likely had a role in linking Surratt and Dilley together.
“I’m still learning, growing, and working on everything that I’m beginning to see what I need as a player in order to grow and be able to compete to the highest level, and I think Brian Dilley‘s gonna be able to help me get to that point,” Surratt wrote via text of Dilley, who has worked with Aaron Wise, Billy Horschel, and the LPGA’s Gerina Piller, among others. “He has caddied at an extremely high-level for longer than I’ve been alive, and undoubtably will be a great set of eyes to have on my golf game. Everyone on my team around me, speaks very highly of him, and I’m very excited to get to work with him in the coming weeks. It’s been a very enjoyable ride so far, and I’m excited to keep learning myself, and learning professional golf game, and eventually grow to be one of the best players in the world.”
LIV Golf Jeddah: Former Vol Caleb Surratt’s final results
Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia played host to LIV Golf Jeddah, Friday-Sunday.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt was part of the field. Surratt (+2) finished tied for 48th place after the final round on Sunday. Joaquin Niemann (-17) won LIV Golf Jeddah.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII finished in fifth place (-24).
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
LIV Golf Jeddah: Former Vol Caleb Surratt’s second-round results
Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia is playing host to LIV Golf Jeddah, Friday-Sunday.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt is part of the field. Surratt (+1) is tied for 47th place after the second-round on Saturday. Joaquin Niemann (-13) is in first place entering the final round.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII is tied for second place (-22) after the second-round.
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
LIV Golf Jeddah: Former Vol Caleb Surratt’s first-round results
Royal Greens Golf & Country Club in Saudi Arabia is playing host to LIV Golf Jeddah, Friday-Sunday.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt is part of the field. Surratt (-4) is tied for 14th place after the first-round on Friday. Adrian Meronk and Jon Rahm (-8) are tied for first place.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII finished in first place (-17) after the first-round.
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt’s final results at LIV Golf Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada played host to LIV Golf.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt was part of the field. He finished tied for 12th place (-6). Dustin Johnson (-12) won LIV Golf Las Vegas.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII finished tied for fifth place (-16), while Smash GC (-33) came in first.
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt’s second-round LIV Golf Las Vegas results.
Las Vegas Country Club in Las Vegas, Nevada is playing host to LIV Golf Thursday-Saturday.
Former Vol Caleb Surratt is part of the field. He is tied for 26th place (-4) after the second-round.
Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson (-11) lead LIV Golf Las Vegas after round two.
Surratt is also part of Legion XIII. He is teammates with Jon Rahm (captain), Tyrrell Hatton and Kieran Vincent. Legion XIII (-19) is tied for fifth after round one. 4Aces GC and RangeGoats GC are leading at -26.
LIV Golf consists of 12 teams, 48 players, 14 events, zero cuts and with shotgun starts.
Each stroke counts for the individual event. A winner is the player with the lowest total amount of shots after 54 holes.
The team event consists of scores for each team’s top three players, for the round count, toward the team’s total score. The team with a cumulative low score following three rounds is the team champion for the event.
During the first two days of each event, only the top three players’ scores count towards their team’s round. On the third day of an event, all four players’ scores count. The top eight teams earn points in team standings.
