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The 2025 LIV Golf season will see its second event on American soil, with the tour traveling to Virginia this weekend. The event will be held at the prestigious Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, just 30 miles from Washington, D.C— with live coverage on FOX Sports. 

This eighth stop on the schedule promises a thrilling weekend of high-energy competition, featuring 54 top players, including major champions like Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, and Phil Mickelson. The 54-hole, no-cut tournament, with its signature shotgun start, ensures non-stop action across individual and team formats.

With top seeds like Joaquin Niemann leading the standings, LIV Golf Virginia is a pivotal event before the U.S. Open, where everyone will be looking to sharpen their game. 

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DeChaumbeau is the favorite to win the tournament at +450, fresh off his first win of the season in South Korea. Rahm has the next best odds at +500, still looking for his first win on the tour this season. Rahm dominated the 2024 season, finishing first in individual points total prize money and tied for the most event victories with two. Niemann has the third best odds at +700— with a record five career LIV wins and three this season alone.

Here are the rest of the odds as of June 5, courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook:

Bryson DeChambeau: +450 (bet $10 to win $55 total)
Jon Rahm: +550 (bet $10 to win $65 total)
Joaquin Niemann: +700 (bet $10 to win $80 total)
Tyrrell Hatton: +1200 (bet $10 to win $130 total)
Lucas Herbert: +2000 (bet $10 to win $210 total)
Patrick Reed: +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)
Cameron Smith: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)
Sebastian Munoz: +2500 (bet $10 to win $260 total)
Carlos Ortiz: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)  
Brooks Kopeka: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)  
Sergio Garcia: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)  
Dean Burmester: +3000 (bet $10 to win $310 total)  
Tom McKibbin: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)
Talor Gooch: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)
Richard Bland: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)
Paul Casey: +3500 (bet $10 to win $360 total)
Cameron Tringale: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Abraham Ancer: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Marc Leishman: +4000 (bet $10 to win $410 total)
Louis Oosthuizen: +4500 (bet $10 to win $460 total)
Thomas Pieters: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)
Dustin Johnson: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)
Charl Schwartzel: +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Peter Uihlein: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)
Harold Varner: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)
Anirban Lahiri: +7000 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Caleb Suratt: +7000 (bet $10 to win $710 total)
Bubba Watson: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)
Charles Howell III: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)
Brendan Steele: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Adrian Meronk: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Matthew Wolff: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Jason Kokrak: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)

Long-shot bets to make

Golf is one of the best sports to bet on long-shots to win, as there have been several instances of huge underdogs winning major tournaments. For the eighth LIV event in Virginia, there are several big name players with some real value from a wagering standpoint. 

Here are a couple of bets worth sprinkling some cash on:

Tyrell Hatton: +1200

Patrick Reed +2200 

Cameron Smith: +2500

Sergio Garcia: +3000

Bubba Watson to finish Top 10: +400

Adrian Meronk to finish Top 10: +450

Charles Howell to finish Top 5: +1000

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After he shocked the golf world four years ago by winning the PGA Championship at age 50, Phil Mickelson had a moment of honest self-assessment. “It’s very possible that this is the last tournament I ever win. Like if I’m being realistic,” Mickelson said on that triumphant Sunday at Kiawah Island.

Mickelson hasn’t won since, and while he wasn’t eager to reflect Wednesday on a career that includes six major titles and just as many famous near-misses, he indicated his competitive future is limited.

He said he wants to help his teammates on LIV’s HyFlyers squad and would step away if he’s no longer doing that.

“I’m also going to be 55 in a couple weeks, so I want to be realistic there, too. I want this team to succeed. I don’t want to hold it back,” Mickelson said. “If I’m holding it back, then it’s time for me to move on and get somebody else in here.”

Mickelson also acknowledged the possibility that Oakmont will be his last U.S. Open. He has a record six runner-up finishes at the national championship, the only major he hasn’t won.

“There’s a high likelihood that it will be,” Mickelson said, “but I haven’t really thought about it too much.” 

The USGA gave Mickelson a special exemption to the 2021 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, which he ultimately didn’t need because he won at Kiawah a month earlier. Nonetheless, the U.S. Open historically does not grant more than one special exemption to any player, and Mickelson has missed the past three U.S. Open cuts. He remains exempt for the other three majors as a past champion.

Mickelson has won six major tournaments in his professional career, which began all the way back in 1992. He won the Masters in 2004, 2006 and 2010, the PGA Championship in 2005 and 2021 and The Open Championship in 2013, but has yet to win the U.S. Open. 

“Lefty” has finished second at the U.S. Open on six occasions: 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2013. Mickelson has been attempting to finish off the last leg of the grand slam since 2014, following his victory at The Open the year prior.

The U.S. Open will be played from June 12 through June 15 at Oakmont Country Club.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Scottie Scheffler never lost the lead and never gave anyone much of a chance down the stretch Sunday in another relentless performance, closing with a 2-under 70 for a four-shot victory to join Tiger Woods as the only repeat winners of the Memorial.

Slowed by hand surgery at the start of the year from a freak accident, Scheffler appears to be in full stride with one major already in the bag and another around the corner at the U.S. Open.

“It’s always a hard week,” said Scheffler, who finished at 10-under 278. “We battled really hard on the weekend. Overall it was a great week.”

On one of the tougher PGA Tour tests of the year, Scheffler made one bogey over the final 40 holes at Muirfield Village.

“Well, you did it again,” tournament host Jack Nicklaus told him while walking off the green.

Ben Griffin tried to make it interesting at the end with a 12-foot eagle on the par-5 15th and a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th to close within two shots with two to play. Scheffler, however, doesn’t make mistakes. Griffin made double bogey on the 17th.

Griffin made a 4-foot par on the 18th for a 73 to finish alone in second, worth $2.2 million, more than what he earned when he won at Colonial last week.

Sepp Straka (70) finished another shot back.

“You know Scottie’s probably going to play a good round of golf,” Straka said. “The guy’s relentless. He loves competition, and he doesn’t like giving up shots. But it’s one of those courses where it can always happen, so you got to be prepared for it. I felt like I gave myself a lot of chances to kind of make a push.”

Scheffler has now won three times in his last four starts — the exception was Colonial, a tie for fourth the week after winning the PGA Championship — and expanded his margin at No. 1 in the world to levels not seen since Woods in his peak years.

Woods is a five-time winner at Memorial who won three straight from 1999 through 2001. No one had repeated at Muirfield Village since then until Scheffler.

His performances lately look a lot more like Nicklaus the way he wears down the field by rarely getting out of position.

Rickie Fowler had his first top 10 of the year at just the right time.

He made par on the 18th to tie for seventh, earning him a spot in the British Open. Fowler tied with Brandt Snedeker at 1-under 287, but gets the one Open exemption available based on a higher world ranking — Fowler at No. 124, Snedeker at No. 430.

“That’s one I’ve wanted on the schedule,” said Fowler, who faces a 36-hole qualifier for the U.S. Open on Monday.

Both received sponsor exemptions to the Memorial, a signature event on the PGA Tour.

For Scheffler, it was his fifth victory in a $20 million signature event in the last two years. This one looked inevitable, but only after a quick development early on the back nine.

Scheffler ended 31 holes without a bogey at tough Muirfield Village on the 10th hole, dropping his lead to one shot. Griffin had 4 feet for birdie on the par-5 11th. Scheffler made his 15-foot birdie putt and Griffin missed.

Griffin bogeyed the next two holes, and just like that, Scheffler was four shots ahead. That’s how it was at the PGA Championship — tight one minute, a blowout the next, and the sweetest walk toward the 18th green with victory secure.

This one ended in a handshake with Nicklaus, who had said earlier in the week of Scheffler, “He plays a lot like I did.”

Nicklaus said he was all about fairways and greens, having plenty of chances and making enough of them to post a score. That’s the Scheffler way, too, even if it didn’t always look that way at the start of the final round.

With mud on the golf ball in the first fairway, too much spin on short irons on the next few holes, Scheffler didn’t have a birdie putt until the fifth hole. He saved par seven times in the final round, including the final hole.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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