The LIV Golf Masters Leaderboard: Where Are They After 36?

With the current schism in golf, the Majors are the only place where we can find out how the two tours stack up against each other. At the midway point in the 2024 Masters, here’s how the LIV thirteen have faired.

Currently, Bryson DeChambeau is tied for first with Scottie Scheffler and Max Homa. Cam Smith is -1 in a T8. Patrick Reed is even, and T15. Any of those are in a position to win.

Bubba Watson, Dustin Johnson and Sergio Garcia — all of whom won the Masters before being hired by LIV — missed the cut. Jon Rahm, the reigning champ, whose Master’s win predates his LIV employment, is at +5. Phil Mickelson and Joaquin Niemann are at +4 in a T36.

Brooks Koepka, who for my money is the only LIV major winner, is at +2 in a T24. I make this distinction because LIV fanboys constantly harp that LIV has ten of the last thirty majors or some other such nonsense. That’s the equivalent of buying the patent for Ipol, and then claiming that you cured polio.

Koepka, Smith, Rahm, Johnson, Garcia, Watson, et. al. learned the game as members of the European and PGAT; they rose to prominence as members of the European and PGAT; the European and PGAT promoted and gave them platforms; they won those Majors as members of the European and PGAT. It was only after all that was done that LIV purchased them.

An honest account of the events would say: LIV started a new golf league, and just over a year later, Brooks Koepka won LIV’s first Major. That’s actually pretty good; it’s the equivalent of an expansion team in MLB winning a division championship in their first year.

But I digress.

Here’s the list in order.

1. Bryson DeChambeau: -6, T1
2. Cameron Smith: -1, T8
3. Patrick Reed: even, T15
4. Brooks Koepka: +2, T24
5. Tyrell Hatton: +2, T24
6. Phil Mickelson: +4, T36
7. Joaquin Niemann: +4, T36
8. Jon Rahm: +5, T46
9. Sergio Garcia, Missed Cut
10. Dustin Johnson, Missed Cut
11. Adrian Meronk, Missed Cut
12. Charl Schwartzel, Missed Cut
13. Bubba Watson, Missed Cut

If DeChambeau goes on to win, do you think he will back the play of his fellow LIV player Talor Gooch and insist that an asterisk be put after his name in the record books.