Danny Lee

Lee was born in Korea and emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 8. By the time he was 18, he was No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and had become the youngest winner on the European Tour at the 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic. Lee turned pro in 2009 and has since won tournaments in Asia, Europe, and on the PGA Tour. He became a LIV Golf winner in just his second tournament after a thrilling four-way playoff at the 2023 Tucson event.

Younghan Song

Song earned Rookie of the Year honors on both the Korean Tour (2013) and the Japan Golf Tour (2015). His breakthrough victory came in 2016 at the SMBC Singapore Open, where he defeated then-World No. 1 Jordan Spieth by one stroke. After a seven-year stretch that included military service and a swing overhaul, he claimed his second JGTO title in 2023 at the Sansan KBC Augusta. Song made his LIV Golf debut in April 2025, and joins KGC’s roster alongside his longtime friend, team captain Byeong Hun An.

Minkyu Kim

Kim, a native of Seoul, joined LIV Golf after 2025 results that featured eight top-20 finishes across the Asian Tour, Korean Tour and the DP World Tour, with two runner-up finishes on the Korean Tour. He turned pro in early 2017 and quickly made his mark by winning multiple events on developmental tours. Kim claimed two titles on the PGA EuroPro Tour in successive weeks and finished second on the Order of Merit, earning promotion to the Challenge Tour. In 2018, at just 17 years and 64 days old, he became the youngest winner in Challenge Tour history by capturing the D+D Real Czech Challenge.

Byeong Hun An

Also known as Ben, An takes over as captain of the newly named Korean Golf Club in 2026. He is the youngest winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship, having claimed the title in 2009 at age 17 (taking the record from his teammate Danny Lee). An made history in 2015, when he became the first Asian winner of the BMW PGA Championship, after earning the lowest winning score in the tournament’s history, and was also named the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year that year. An has represented his country on numerous occasions, competing for the International Team at the Presidents Cup in 2019 and 2024, and representing Korea at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.

Louis Oosthuizen

Born in Mossel Bay, Oosthuizen captains the all-South African Southern Guards GC. He won the 2010 Open Championship and has finished runner-up in all four major tournaments. With one of the smoothest swings in the game, the former world No. 4 helped his team finish third in the 2025 LIV Golf Team Championship.

Charl Schwartzel

Schwartzel is assured of his place in the LIV Golf history books thanks to his victory in the inaugural event in London in 2022. The 2011 Masters champion and former world No. 6, he has won 16 professional tournaments worldwide. Born in Johannesburg, Schwartzel has been playing alongside his Southern Guards GC captain Louis Oosthuizen since 2000, when they teamed up in the Eisenhower Trophy.

Dean Burmester

A prolific winner on the Sunshine Tour and DP World Tour, Burmester joined LIV in 2023. The Zimbabwe native has LIV titles in each of his past two seasons, in Miami in 2024 when he beat Sergio Garcia in a playoff and in Chicago in 2025. Burmester has improved his position in the individual standings in each of his first three LIV seasons, going from 14th to ninth to fifth.

Branden Grace

Grace made history in 2017 when he recorded the lowest score ever in a men’s major, shooting a 62 in the third round of the Open Championship (a feat that has been tied since). He is a nine-time winner on the European Tour, with the first four of those titles coming in the same year (2012). The Pretoria native’s lone LIV Golf victory came in Portland in 2022, the first LIV event ever held in the United States. That year he finished runner-up to Dustin Johnson in the overall individual standings.

Bryson DeChambeau

Testing inner subtitle With his imposing 6-foot-1 frame and more than 2.5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, DeChambeau is one of the biggest stars in golf in more ways than one. The Modesto, California, native joined LIV Golf in 2022 and captained Crushers GC to the 2023 Team Championship. Known as “The Scientist,” DeChambeau’s power-driven approach has helped him win two U.S. Open championships and three LIV titles.

Paul Casey

A former world No. 3, Casey has 15 DP World Tour wins and three PGA Tour titles. The Englishman has represented Europe in five Ryder Cups and has been a staple for Crushers GC since the league's inception.

Charles Howell III

With over 600 PGA Tour starts and three wins, Howell III is one of golf's most durable competitors. The Augusta, Georgia, native took home the 2023 LIV Golf Mayakoba individual title and has delivered numerous top-20 finishes for Crushers GC.

Anirban Lahiri

Lahiri has been one of Indian golf’s trailblazers, enjoying a career that has seen him celebrate 18 professional wins worldwide and represent his country twice at the Olympics and in the World Cup of Golf. A two-time Presidents Cup participant, Lahiri has secured multiple podium finishes for Crushers GC.

Harold Varner III

The man known as HV3 has played in every season of LIV Golf. In 2023, he won the event in Washington D.C. and finished the year 7th in the individual standings. His first top-tier professional victory came in the 2016 Australian PGA Championship, when he shot a final-round 65 to finish the tournament 19-under. A native of Gastonia, North Carolina, Varner was a standout golfer at East Carolina University and became the first player to win both the North Carolina Amateur Championship and North Carolina Amateur Match Play Championship in the same year in 2011.

Graeme McDowell

McDowell is one of the few Europeans to crack the American stranglehold on the U.S. Open with his grinding win at Pebble Beach in 2010. A couple of months later, the Northern Irishman holed the vital putt in the anchor match of the Ryder Cup to clinch the trophy for Europe. A winner of over 15 professional tournaments, McDowell is in his third season with Smash GC after spending two seasons with Cleeks Golf Club.

Talor Gooch

Gooch is in his third season with Smash GC and his first as captain, a well deserved honor for the consistent LIV standout. He has four league titles, including three in 2023, when he won the Individual Championship as a member of RangeGoats GC. The Oklahoma native has finished in the Lock Zone in each of his first four LIV seasons, ending up no worse than 11th in the individual standings.

Marc Leishman

The first Aussie to be named Rookie of the Year in 2009, Leishman is a six-time PGA Tour winner and has one LIV title, in Miami in 2025. A native of Warrnambool, he has represented the International team in five Presidents Cups and played for Australia in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He is a core member of Ripper GC from the start, helping win the 2024 LIV Golf Team Championship.

Lucas Herbert

Born in Bendigo in Victoria, Australia, Herbert has won three times on the DP World Tour and once on the PGA Tour, the 2021 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. He was instrumental in helping Ripper GC win in front of their fellow Australians at the Adelaide event in April 2024, shooting 13-under over his three rounds.

Elvis Smylie

Smylie could not have had a better LIV debut in Riyadh, using his pure left-handed swing to win the individual title and helping Ripper GC claim the team victory. He joined LIV Golf after a breakout 2024-25 professional run that included a statement win at the Australian PGA Championship. One of the fastest-ascending players in Australian golf, he is a former recipient of the Cam Smith Scholarship, which bears the name of his mentor, new teammate, and captain. Smylie was named after Elvis Presley and is the son of former professional tennis players–-his mother Liz Smylie won four Grand Slam doubles titles, including Wimbledon.

Jon Rahm

Easily the most successful player since joining LIV Golf in December 2023, Rahm won the individual title in each of his first two seasons, finishing outside the top 10 of a tournament only once. He also captained Legion XIII to the Team Championship in 2025, decided in a thrilling playoff against Crushers GC. The 2023 Masters and 2021 U.S. Open champion, the Spaniard is a former world No. 1 and still just in his early 30s.