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Caleb Surratt wins team event at LIV Golf Nashville

Former Vol wins team event at LIV Golf Nashville.

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.

Caleb Surratt. Steve Roberts-USA TODAY Sports

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.

2024 LIV Golf Nashville prize money payouts for each player and team

Tyrrell Hatton won’t have much to be cynical about this week.

Tyrrell Hatton won’t have much to be cynical about this week.

The first-year LIV Golf player picked up his first victory in the Saudi-backed league at LIV Golf Nashville, finishing at 19 under and winning by six shots at The Grove. For his victory, Hatton will take home a $4 million winner’s check on the back of his strong finish last week at the U.S. Open.

Sam Horsfield placed second while U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, Joaquin Niemann, Lee Westwood and Jon Rahm tied for third.

Rahm and Hatton’s Legion XIII took home the team title and with it a $3 million prize.

With $20 million up for grabs, check out how much money each player and team earned at 2024 LIV Golf Nashville.

Individual prize money

Position Player Score Earnings
1 Tyrrell Hatton -19 $4,000,000
2 Sam Horsfield -13 $2,250,000
T3 Joaquín Niemann -12 $1,000,000
T3 Lee Westwood -12 $1,000,000
T3 Jon Rahm -12 $1,000,000
T3 Bryson DeChambeau -12 $1,000,000
T7 Sebastian Munoz -11 $562,500
T7 John Catlin -11 $562,500
T9 Paul Casey -10 $396,875
T9 Richard Bland -10 $396,875
T9 Cameron Smith -10 $396,875
T9 Carlos Ortiz -10 $396,875
13 Louis Oosthuizen -9 $340,000
T14 Pat Perez -8 $310,000
T14 Brendan Steele -8 $310,000
T16 Matthew Wolff -7 $277,500
T16 Harold Varner III -7 $277,500
T18 Sergio Garcia -6 $230,000
T18 Abraham Ancer -6 $230,000
T18 Anirban Lahiri -6 $230,000
T18 Marc Leishman -6 $230,000
T18 Kieran Vincent -6 $230,000
T18 Eugenio Chacarra -6 $230,000
T18 Jason Kokrak -6 $230,000
T25 Charl Schwartzel -5 $180,000
T25 Caleb Surratt -5 $180,000
T25 Ian Poulter -5 $180,000
T25 Henrik Stenson -5 $180,000
T25 Dean Burmester -5 $180,000
T25 Kevin Na -5 $180,000
T25 Scott Vincent -5 $180,000
T32 Patrick Reed -4 $155,000
T32 Thomas Pieters -4 $155,000
T32 Adrian Meronk -4 $155,000
T35 Cameron Tringale -3 $142,800
T35 Bubba Watson -3 $142,800
T35 Hudson Swafford -3 $142,800
T35 Branden Grace -3 $142,800
T35 Mito Pereira -3 $142,800
T40 Matt Jones -2 $134,000
T40 Phil Mickelson -2 $134,000
T42 Graeme McDowell -1 $127,750
T42 Brooks Koepka -1 $127,750
T42 Talor Gooch -1 $127,750
T42 Martin Kaymer -1 $127,750
T46 Anthony Kim E $124,000
T46 Jinichiro Kozuma E $124,000
48 Lucas Herbert 1 $120,000
49 Andy Ogletree 2 $60,000
50 Peter Uihlein 3 $60,000
T51 Kalle Samooja 4 $53,333
T51 Dustin Johnson 4 $53,333
T51 David Puig 4 $53,333
54 Danny Lee 5 $50,000

Team prize money

Position Team Score Earnings
1 Legion XIII -40 $3,000,000
2 Crushers GC -35 $1,500,000
3 Torque GC -34 $1500,000

 

Jon Rahm goes off on drones at LIV Golf Nashville: ‘These f—–g drones every time’

Drones, but louder.

Drones have become an integral part of television’s coverage of professional golf.

Whether at a major championship or week-to-week stop, drones can be seen — and heard — buzzing around golf courses across the country every week. While they provide some incredible shots and give a new perspective of courses that have never been seen before, they also have some drawbacks because of the noise.

Enter LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm, who Sunday was three shots back of Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton at LIV Golf Nashville at The Grove when he was on the par-4 sixth tee. Rahm’s tee shot sailed right into the water hazard, and before his ball reached his apex, he turned around and looked into the sky in disgust.

“Every tournament. It’s f—–g incredible. Right on my backswing. These f—–g drones every time,” the microphones caught the two-time major champion saying.

Drones, but louder.

Rahm would go on to make double, the worst score on the hole of the golfers who had completed the hole by that time (remember, LIV Golf events begin with a shotgun start).

The Spaniard has given some great hot mic moments before, but he also has a point about drones moving right in the middle of his swing. It happens more often than you think, and given Rahm’s fiery competitiveness, it’s no surprise he’s the one to let us know what likely many other professional golfers think about drones.

Caleb Surratt’s second-round results at LIV Golf Nashville

A look at former Vol Caleb Surratt’s second-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 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.

Caleb Surratt’s first-round results at LIV Golf Nashville

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.

Sweet tea dunking booth gives 2024 LIV Golf Nashville event a southern flavor

Fun times at The Grove.

COLLEGE GROVE, Tenn. — Melissa Rowe checked the forecast then checked the work assignments for the LIV Golf Nashville event at The Grove on Friday.

There appeared to be only one way to keep her cool and that’s why Rowe, a Murfreesboro resident, signed up for the Sweet Tea Dunking Booth.

Rowe spent Friday, the first round of the event in the sweltering heat, perched on a seat in a giant Red Solo Cup under a big umbrella being dropped into a huge vat of sweet tea every time a contestant was able to hit a target by tossing a football.

The sweet tea gave a special southern twist to the inaugural LIV Golf event near Franklin.

“It’s absolutely refreshing,” Rowe said. “The tea is staying cool because we’re under this umbrella. It’s not sticky like people might think. It feels great.”

Long before the event began with a shotgun start at 12:15 p.m., Rowe said she had already been dunked too many times to count.

“The longest I’ve gone without being dunked is probably about two minutes,” she said.

Lexi Reiter, 26, a Franklin resident, attempted three times to send Rowe into the drink narrowly missing the target each time. She was desperate.

“I heard you win a fan if you dunk her,” Reiter said.

Reiter asked her boyfriend Matt Taft, 27, a former college football player, to give it a try and on his second attempt he nailed the target.

“After the first time, once I felt the balls weren’t real footballs, they’re foam, I was like, “I know how this is going to go,'” said Taft, who played football at Stetson. “It was more of a flick of the wrist.”

Taft played running back at Stetson and said there were trick plays designed where he would throw the ball from time-to-time.

Unfortunately for Reiter, there was no fan for a prize.

“Well, it was still fun seeing (Rowe) go into the tea,” Reiter said. “We’ll just have to find another way to stay cool.”

For the first time in his career, Greg Norman lifts U.S. Open trophy alongside LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau

As the person taking the video said, “First time touching it, that’s crazy!”

For the second time in his career, LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau captured the U.S. Open title last week at the famed Pinehurst No. 2, besting Rory McIlroy by one shot after the Northern Irishman played his final four holes 3 over.

DeChambeau returned to the LIV Golf circuit this week, as the Saudi-backed league is in Tennessee for LIV Golf Nashville at The Grove, its ninth event of the season.

The Big Golfer has been on a tour with the U.S. Open trophy since winning last Sunday, a trek that included a visit with Norman.

During his career, The Shark won the Open Championship twice but no other majors. He finished second at the U.S. Open twice, once at Winged Foot in 1984 and again at Shinnecock in 1995.

As the person taking the video said, “First time touching it, that’s crazy!”

Watch: Phil Mickelson, HyFlyers GC line dance in cowboy attire before 2024 LIV Golf Nashville

The boys were getting after it.

A week after one of its members claimed the U.S. Open title at Pinehurst No. 2, LIV Golf is in Tennessee for LIV Golf Nashville, its ninth event of the season.

Play gets underway Friday at The Grove — last week’s winner Bryson DeChambeau is the betting favorite at +750 — but HyFlyers GC and its captain Phil Mickelson got the party going a little bit early in the Music City.

Mickelson and teammates Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale and Andy Ogletree tried their hands, or should we say feet, at line dancing.

The team currently is 11th in the points standings out of 13 teams.

Have to do anything to change the vibes.

Bryson DeChambeau says ‘it’s disappointing’ he’s not on USA Olympic golf team after U.S. Open win

“Anytime you get a chance to represent your country, I’m all for it.”

When Bryson DeChambeau signed with LIV Golf two years ago, he figured that by now the league would receive Official World Golf Ranking points.

That hasn’t happened. And DeChambeau and others who joined LIV have dealt with the repercussions of their decision to leave the PGA Tour. The latest instance is DeChambeau’s frustration with not making the U.S. golf team for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

After winning his second U.S. Open title Sunday, DeChambeau has cemented himself as one of the best players in the world this year. He finished T-6 at the Masters, then second at the PGA Championship. The U.S. Open win was a feather in the cap of what has been a brilliant year thus far, but he’s not being rewarded as he may have been in the past. He expressed as much Wednesday during his pre-tournament press conference at LIV Golf Nashville.

“It’s disappointing, but I understand the decisions I made, and the way things have played out has not been necessarily perfectly according to plan,” DeChambeau said. “I’ve done my best up until now to give myself a chance according to the OWGR, but I realize and respect where the current situation of the game is, albeit it’s frustrating and disappointing.”

Even before winning the U.S. Open, DeChambeau had no chance of making the team. He couldn’t earn enough points to gain a spot among the top four Americans in the OWGR. His only events to earn ranking points during the past two years are majors, and because LIV Golf events don’t receive points, there are 14 times a year he plays that aren’t recorded for ranking purposes.

His win Sunday moved him to No. 10 in the world, but it wasn’t enough to get into the top four Americans. Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark will head to Paris to represent the Americans.

The 60 players who qualified for the Olympics were announced Tuesday. There are multiple LIV Golf players in the field, including Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann, among others.

In 2021, DeChambeau was on the team but had to withdraw a week before the competition when he got COVID and couldn’t travel.

“I have always loved representing Team USA, whether it’s been the world team amateur (World Amateur Team Championships), the Walker Cup, Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup. It’s been some of the greatest moments of my life. Anytime you get a chance to represent your country, I’m all for it.”

DeChambeau said it was unfortunate he couldn’t travel in 2021, but this year is different. While Scheffler and Schauffele are the other major winners this year, arguments could be made that DeChambeau should be on the team over Morikawa or Clark.

DeChambeau was asked Wednesday if he thought there would have been an agreement by now between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, or if he thought he would’ve been able to get points by now. His answer was telling.

“Yeah, either of those situations,” he said. “That’s kind of what I thought. It hasn’t worked out that way, and again, I respect the decision that I made, and it is what it is. It hurts, but you know what, there’s another one four years later.

“Hopefully 2028 will be a little different situation, and it will make it that much sweeter.”