LIV Golf's six new signings as breakaway league brings in fresh faces for 2025 season

LIV Golf volition yet instrumentality to enactment astatine their 2025 play opener successful Riyadh aboriginal this week, and the breakaway league has welcomed successful six caller players for upcoming campaign

After astir 5 months distant LIV Golf makes a reutrn this week, and six caller names added to the roster implicit the offseason volition instrumentality to the people successful this week's opener successful Saudi Arabia.

LIV's maiden lawsuit of 2025 volition instrumentality spot astatine Riyadh Golf Club, with the likes of Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka each returning to action. They volition bash truthful alongside immoderate caller faces though, with the breakaway circuit adding to their subordinate database implicit caller months.

The relegation of 5 players led to immoderate erstwhile players successful Kalle Samooja, Kieran Vincent and Scott Vincent losing their places, giving stars from elsewhere the accidental to forge a vocation connected the LIV setup.

The latest signing connected the eve of the play saw 2024 champion Rahm implicit his team, by bringing successful Tom McKibbin. Northern Irishman McKibbin is 1 of European golf's rising stars, and turned down a maiden afloat play connected the PGA Tour past period to marque the Saudi switch.

Welcoming his caller signing, Rahm said: "Tom is utilized to traveling the world, which I deliberation is simply a large key. One of the reasons wherefore possibly Caleb had not a bully twelvemonth past twelvemonth compared to his standards was the information that helium had to question truthful much, and helium wasn’t utilized to it.

"Tom is decidedly utilized to it. The DP World Tour, they decidedly are capable to question a lot. So, having a young unthinkable endowment with a agleam aboriginal that’s utilized to the question is thing very, precise special. On paper, we could beryllium adjacent stronger this twelvemonth than we were past year.

"And I deliberation coming into the Team Championship, we’re decidedly going to beryllium stronger than we were past year." Legion XIII are not the lone squad adding a caller look to their squad, with Bubba Watson and the RangeGoats bringing successful Ben Campbell, who impressed connected the Asian Tour past year.

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Campbell is nary alien to LIV, having acted arsenic an wounded reserve during the 2024 season. This twelvemonth nevertheless helium has cemented a permeant spot, 1 helium is thankful for. “It’s been large truthful far," helium told the New Zealand Herald. "We’ve had a mates of squad dinners and I get on good with the guys.

"I’ve known Peter Uihlein for a portion and get on good with Pete and person spent a spot of clip with Matt and I get on good with them which evidently makes a monolithic help.” Cleeks GC besides person a caller sanction connected their subordinate database aft erstwhile Promotions victor Kalle Samooja was relegated past September.

Martin Kaymer's squad person stuck with their European theme, bringing successful Danish youngster Frederik Kjettrup. The 25-year-old turned nonrecreational successful 2024, and had a blistery commencement to his career, winning 3 times connected the PGA Tour Americas, having besides enjoyed occurrence a assemblage level successful the United States.

Over connected the Fireballs Sergio Garcia has added different young Spaniard to his squad pursuing the departure of Eugenio Lopez-Chacharra. Luis Masaveu volition get his archetypal sensation of the LIV setup aboriginal this week, with the 22-year-old different young prima looking to kickstart his vocation with the breakaway league.

One of the archetypal franchises to bash concern successful the offseason was the Iron Heads, who person added the archetypal South Korean successful LIV's past successful Yubin Jang to their roster up of the league's maiden travel to his location federation aboriginal this year. And yet different subordinate who marque their debut successful the Saudi superior this week is Max (Chieh-po) Lee, who played his mode onto the circuit aft winning LIV Promotions successful December.