This weekend’s contest at the prestigious Real Club Valderrama follows on from a dramatic conclusion to LIV Golf Dallas, which saw Patrick Reed emerge triumphant in a four-way playoff with Jinichiro Kozuma, Louis Oosthuizen, and Paul Casey.
Reed’s nerve-shredding victory enabled him to leapfrog to fourth position in the overall standings, although the talented Texan is still a considerable 85.44 points behind runaway leader Joaquín Niemann.
With just four individual events remaining, title chasers Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm will be eager to close the gap on the Chilean youngster. In their capacity as competing captains, these three players will be hoping their performances can inspire those around them as we hurtle towards September’s Team Championship showpiece in Michigan.
A total of 54 players will descend on the picturesque Mediterranean resort of San Roque in Andalucía, with 52 of these participants representing LIV’s 13 member teams alongside the competition’s two wild card entrants.
The action gets underway at 12.15pm (BST) on Friday, when LIV Golf’s unique ‘shotgun’ starting system will once again be deployed. The entire course will be in operation from the very beginning, as 18 groups simultaneously tee off at each hole. Unlike the age-old methodology used on the PGA Tour, there is no arbitrary ‘cut’ at the halfway stage of LIV Golf events, so every player is involved until the end of the final day. Furthermore, only three rounds are scheduled across the long weekend, resulting in players navigating 18 fewer holes than they would in a typical PGA tournament.
After they complete their third and final tour of the Real Club Valderrama on Sunday evening, the 24 players with the best (lowest) overall scores will receive an allocation of points, which contribute to the season’s progressive individual rankings. The top three competitors are issued 40, 30, and 24 points, respectively, with the remaining rewards also distributed via a descending sliding scale. A similar process is used to determine the Team Championship league table, but only the top eight outfits in each event are eligible to receive points.
Following this weekend’s meeting in southern Spain, the next LIV event will be hosted on British soil. Staffordshire’s JCB Golf & Country Club takes centre stage from Friday, 25th July as the Saudi-backed league enters its final month, just five days after the 153rd edition of The Open concludes at Royal Portrush.
LIV Golf Andalucía 2025 – key info
Date: Friday 11th July to Sunday 13th July
Venue: Real Club Valderrama, Sotogrande (Andalucía)
Opening tee times: Day 1 – 12.15pm, Day 2 – 12.15pm, Day 3 – 11.45am (all times displayed relate to BST)
Competition format: Stroke Play (the winner is the player who finishes with the lowest number of shots)
Rounds: 3 (54 holes played over a three-day weekend)
TV channel/Live stream: DAZN and ITVX
Odds courtesy of bet365. Correct at the time of publication and subject to change.
Past winners
Andalucía was added to LIV Golf’s roadmap in 2023, a year after the controversial new league was launched. Although scheduled for the tenth weekend of the calendar in each of the last two seasons, the inaugural LIV Golf Andalucía featured as the eighth tournament of the 2023 campaign. The event has taken place at Sotogrande’s Real Club Valderrama since its inception, and will do so again in 2025.
Two years ago, American ace Talor Gooch, who would later go on to secure the individual championship, won the first edition of LIV Golf Andalucía after registering an impressive score of 201, a full twelve shots under par.
In 2024, it was the turn of homegrown hero Sergio García to scoop first prize. Clad in Spanish red and yellow and buoyed on by a partisan home crowd, the 2017 Masters champion negotiated three rounds of the 7,000-yard course in 208 strokes, a score matched by experienced campaigner Anirban Lahiri. The subsequent playoff was contested over two holes, with García’s double-par effort proving good enough.
Prize money
Bankrolled by the Saudi state’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), LIV Golf’s astronomical prize sums have been well-documented. In addition to receiving end-of-season payouts based on their championship ranking, players are rewarded each time they step onto the course. All 13 regular season events carry a $25m (£18.4m) purse, with $5m of this budget ringfenced for the team competition. Almost half of the remaining kitty is awarded to each event’s three highest-ranked players.
Sunday’s winner will receive a cool $4m for their weekend’s endeavours, with second and third placed players handed $2.25m and $1.5m respectively. Similarly to the competition’s points distribution system, the rest of the money is divided proportionately between the other 51 competitors. Even the player at the foot of the leaderboard will receive a cut, albeit less than 0.25% of the overall prize pot.
The team that concludes the event with the most points receives $3m for its operational fund, while the runners-up earn $1.5m in total. The bronze medallists are given $500,000 for finishing higher than the ten other teams, who are not entitled to any cash.
Currently perched at the summit of the individual rankings, 26-year-old Joaquín Niemann also leads the earnings chart by some considerable distance. Bryson DeChambeau is hot on the Chilean’s heels both from an income and points perspective, while Spanish legend Sergio García is on the cusp of exceeding the $7m threshold, a place below. Although Jon Rahm occupies third position in the race for the title, the Basque big-hitter is just the fifth highest earner, having not won a single event this term.
Here’s a list of this season’s top five earners on the LIV Golf circuit:
1. Joaquín Niemann = $17,022,048
2. Bryson DeChambeau = $9,232,000
3. Sergio García = $6,940,583
4. Patrick Reed = $6,751,083
5. Jon Rahm = $6,483,791
Ticket prices
This weekend’s event adopts a tiered ticketing scheme, with different levels of access granted depending on the type of pass you purchase. There are still plenty of standard day and weekend passes available, but most hospitality areas have now reached maximum capacity.
A Grounds Pass provides entry to the main parts of the course, while a Grounds Plus ticket allows the purchaser to take advantage of elevated viewing areas and catering facilities at the exclusive Oasis Bar. The ‘Super Monday AM-AM’ ticket enables the buyer to play a round of the Real Club Valderrama just one day after the conclusion of LIV Golf Andalucía, offering an opportunity for golf fans and enthusiasts to tackle one of Europe’s finest courses. Access to this experience was initially available at a discounted rate when purchasing as a group of four to eight people, but these tickets have now sold out.
We’ve provided a breakdown of ticket prices below:
Single-Day Grounds Pass
Friday 11th July: €38.49 (£33.20)
Saturday 12th July: €42.73
Sunday 13th July: €41.56
Single-Day Grounds Plus
Friday 11th July: €121.12
Saturday 12th July: €139.66
Sunday 13th July: €128.07
Weekend Passes
Grounds Pass: €101.63
Grounds Plus: €351.37
Super Monday AM-AM
Monday 14th July: €1,381.65
Please note that all tickets are available to purchase via the official LIV Golf website.
Where to watch LIV Golf Andalucía 2025
UK audiences have two viewing options for this event, with both DAZN and ITVX providing comprehensive live coverage from the Real Club Valderrama.
All LIV Golf content is accessible via DAZN’s free membership account, so you won’t need to purchase a subscription package to enjoy this weekend’s tournament. To get started, download the DAZN app onto your SMART TV, smartphone, tablet, or games console and register for an account. Once set up, you’ll be able to stream this event – and every other LIV Golf meeting for the remainder of the 2025 season and beyond – via the same application.
ITV are also an official broadcasting partner of LIV Golf, having struck a deal with league organisers back in February 2025. Since the second round of the opening weekend in Riyadh, every minute of LIV Golf action has been shown on ITVX, the free-to-air channel’s internal streaming platform. You can access this content online or by downloading the ITVX app.
Coverage on both networks will commence ahead of each day’s opening tee times, with the shotgun system in motion from 12.15pm on Friday & Saturday and 11.35am on Sunday.
Favourites
As we race towards the finishing line, only the aforementioned three players – namely Joaquín Niemann, Bryson DeChambeau, and Jon Rahm – have any realistic chance of being crowned this season’s champion. Therefore, the bookmakers have unsurprisingly installed these three title rivals as favourites ahead of this weekend’s meeting in a sun-drenched Andalucía, although the odds applied to each player do not necessarily reflect their current league ranking...
Bryson DeChambeau
Following a solid start in the Saudi capital, Bryson DeChambeau secured the runner-up position at LIV Golf Mexico City thanks to completing three rounds of the Club de Golf Chapultepec in exactly 200 shots. A week later, the powerful Californian won LIV’s inaugural event in South Korea, delivering an exceptional score of 19 under par at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club to edge Crushers GC teammate Charles Howell III by two shots.
Further sizeable points allocations then arrived on American soil, as DeChambeau tied for fourth in Virginia before clinching his seventh top ten berth of the campaign in last weekend’s meeting at the Maridoe.
Having won the U.S Open on two previous occasions, the ‘Bison’ is still permitted entry to the PGA’s four major tournaments. After delivering a series of exceptional majors performances last season, DeChambeau commenced the 2025 campaign in a similar vein. A commendable fifth-place finish at Augusta was followed up by a stunning display in North Carolina, helping him to get within touching distance of PGA Championship leader Scottie Scheffler heading into the final day. However, similarly to his experience at the previous edition of the same tournament, DeChambeau was forced to settle for second place. A shock early departure in June's U.S Open, just twelve months after his 2024 triumph, has somewhat undermined his progress, but the two-time Ryder Cup winner will now have his sights firmly set on the LIV Golf run-in.
Currently 35.42 points behind Joaquín Niemann in second, a victory in Andalucía could theoretically catapult DeChambeau to the top of the leaderboard.
Jon Rahm
Although his search for an elusive first tournament win of the season continues, Jon Rahm has finished amongst the top ten players in every event until his most recent outing in Dallas. Rahm’s strongest performance arguably came on the opening weekend of the season, which saw him navigate the Riyadh GC in fifteen shots below par to share second place with Colombian ace Sebastián Muñoz. His efforts also propelled Legion XIII to team success, as the cumulative scores of Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Caleb Surratt, and Tom McKibbin bettered any rival outfit.
Despite his lack of silverware this term, the Basque star did claim the individual championship at the end of a scintillating maiden campaign on the LIV circuit. On the path to glory, Rahm held off the charge of Joaquín Niemann at the JCB Golf and Country Club to land his first LIV title, before sweeping aside the field in the penultimate event of the season. In between those two triumphs, he suffered a heartbreaking play-off defeat to two-time PGA Player of the Year Brooks Koepka at The Old White, but demonstrated immense character to bounce straight back in Chicago.
Rahmbo’s resolve was also tested earlier on this summer, having worked his way into a position to challenge for the PGA Championship title before shooting bogey – double-bogey – double-bogey on his last trip along Quail Hollow’s notorious green mile. Less than three weeks after his late wobble in Charlotte, the 2019 Race to Dubai winner recorded a score of ten under par at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club to further boost his hopes of delivering back-to-back LIV titles.
Sat within six points of familiar foe Bryson DeChambeau, Rahm knows any improvement on the American’s output will likely result in a switch of positions.
Joaquín Niemann
It’s been a strange journey to this point for Joaquín Niemann, who has accumulated more points than any other opponent despite a hugely inconsistent run of form. The Chilean failed to achieve a top 20 place in Riyadh, Miami, and Dallas, and struggled to get anywhere close to the leading pack in Korea two months ago. However, he has earned a staggering four titles this term, winning every other tournament following his underwhelming performance in the Saudi capital.
In addition to convincing victories in Adelaide and Mexico City, Niemann acquired maximum points at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club after building an unassailable five-shot lead. His most recent success came in the western suburbs of the American capital, thanks to a dramatic final round at LIV Golf Virginia. After delivering four consecutive birdies along the back nine, Niemann held his nerve to deny Graeme McDowell a maiden LIV triumph and simultaneously consolidate his position at the top of the leaderboard.
With a sizeable advantage heading into the four weekends of the regular season, last year’s Asian Tour International Series champion needs to put on a disciplined performance in Andalucía to keep his adversaries at arm’s length. However, given his Jekyll and Hyde approach this term, we may see some movement amongst the title challengers come Sunday evening...
The odds, correct at the time of publication, are subject to change.