NO GOLFER HAS BENEFITED MORE FROM LIV THAN BRYSON, AND IT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE.
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The LIV leaderboard for the first three majors of the year has been telling.
The man at the top? Bryson DeChambeau, now a two-time major champion and a player who has overhauled his reputation in record time. DeChambeau, you could make the case, is having a better major season than world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler. He was T6 at the Masters, runner-up at Valhalla for the PGA Championship and just won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst.
The rest of his LIV competitors? For the most part, they have been thoroughly disappointing.
Outside of Bryson, there was only one LIV player in the top 25 of the U.S. Open—44-year-old Sergio Garcia, who grinded his way through sectional qualifying, earned a T12 finish.
And of the 12 players who are under par in the aggregate throughout the first three majors (those who made the cut in all three events), only one of them is from LIV:
Bryson DeChambeau -28
Xander Schauffele -23
Collin Morikawa -17
Scottie Scheffler -16
Rory McIlroy -13
Tommy Fleetwood -10
Patrick Cantlay -5
Russell Henley -4
Hideki Matsuyama -3
Corey Conners -2
Shane Lowry -2
Tony Finau -2
I wrote last week about how Jon Rahm has been a major no-show in 2024. The recent No. 1 player in the world struggled in the first two majors and then withdrew from injury before the U.S. Open started.
Assuming Brooks Koepka isn’t hurt—and he says he is fine—this has been the worst major season of his career relative to his health. He couldn’t get going in 2022 because of injuries but there is no such excuse this time around. He has gone T45-T26-T26, uncharacteristically failing to get into contention.
Cameron Smith and Tyrrell Hatton had top-10 finishes at the Masters. In the ensuing two majors, Smith went T63-T32 and Hatton went T63-T26. Their performances this year are among the highlights for LIV in majors, which is indicative of how quiet it’s been for LIV.