JCB hosted the LIV Golf UK event in 2025, marking the second time this venue has hosted this event.
In 2024, Jon Rahm won in the UK, securing a narrow victory over Cameron Smith, Joaquin Niemann and Tyrrell Hatton. In 2025, Joaquin Niemann won by three shots from Bubba Watson.
The LIV Golf UK event was booked in the same week as the 3M Open on the PGA Tour at TPC Twin Cities, which had a purse of $8,400,00 and was won by Kurt Kitayama.
So far in the LIV Golf League, a variety of players have starred. Adrian Meronk won the season-opener in Riyadh, Niemann won in Adelaide, and Sergio Garcia won in Hong Kong. Niemann then doubled his tally for 2025 in Singapore, so it has been a super year for the Chilean so far. Bryson DeChambeau won in Korea shortly before playing well at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow again.
Niemann won again in Virginia, then Patrick Reed won for the first time in his LIV career in Dallas.
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LIV Golf UK payout
There was no DP World Tour event in the same week as LIV Golf UK at JCB. There was an LPGA Tour event in the same week. It was the ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open, a top event held at Dundonald Links in Ayrshire, which had a purse of $2 million.
While the payouts for LIV Golf events are $20 million, the total is $25 million, as there is $5 million divided among the winning teams. The winning team at the LIV Golf Korea event, for example, DeChambeau’s Crushers, earned $750,000 each, but that is invested back in the team.
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The four-man squad in second place, Smash, earned $375,000 a piece, and the team in third, Torque, earned $125,000 each, but as we’ve said, this figure gets invested back into the team. It is believed it doesn’t go in the players’ pockets.
The prize money figures and results of LIV Golf’s UK event in the Midlands are below. Let’s examine the purses of the events on the corresponding tours in the same week…
LIV Golf UK
Win: Joaquin Niemann – $4,000,000
2: Bubba Watson – $2,250,000
3: Caleb Surratt – $1,500,000
4: Talor Gooch – $1,000,000
T5: Jon Rahm, Dean Burmester – $750,000
T7: Josele Ballester, Patrick Reed, Adrian Meronk – $522,500
10: Cameron Smith – $405,000
PGA Tour
Event: 3M Open
Purse: $8,400,000
LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour
Event: ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open
Purse: $2,000,000
Korn Ferry Tour
Event: NV5 Invitational
Purse: $1,000,000
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