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The LIV League in 2025 will kick off in the Asia-Pacific region, with events scheduled in Riyadh, Adelaide, Hong Kong, and Singapore, before moving into the U.S. schedule. The first stop will be at the renowned Trump Doral Resort's Blue Monster Course, where twelve LIV stars are set to compete in a celebrity tournament in Miami. The focus is on Chilean player Joaquín Niemann, who has excelled in both last year's and this year's competitions, proving the correctness of receiving the Augusta wildcard for two consecutive years. At twenty-six years old, he won a PGA Tour championship in 2022 and joined the LIV League last year. Even while facing a suspension, he has still managed to win multiple championships in non-LIV events. Meanwhile, Spanish star Sergio García has also shone in the LIV League, leading the Fireballs GC team in pursuit of a fourth consecutive victory. Other past champions participating, such as Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, and Phil Mickelson, will also compete on the same stage.

The LIV League in 2025 will kick off in four Asia-Pacific series in Riyadh, Adelaide, Hong Kong, and Singapore, followed by an official launch of the American tour this week, starting at the famous Blue Monster at Trump National Doral. The LIV Golf Miami will feature twelve LIV stars competing to prepare for next week's Masters.

The pre-tournament spotlight undoubtedly focuses on "The Chilean Kid" Joaquin Niemann, who won the LIV Golf Mayakoba and LIV Golf Jeddah around the same time last year, and this season he successfully claimed individual titles in Adelaide and Singapore, proving that Augusta National Golf Club's decision to continue granting him a wildcard was wise. The twenty-six-year-old Niemann won his second PGA Tour championship at The Genesis Invitational in early 2022, later deciding to join the LIV League, and last year he nearly won the end-of-year title, ultimately being defeated by Spanish star Jon Rahm. However, this year he is back in the spotlight, continuing his dazzling performance from the spring.

Despite being banned from the PGA Tour, Niemann participated in eight and ten non-LIV events over the past two years, respectively, winning the ISPS Handa Australian Open and PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers, which explains his current status at eighty-fourth in the world rankings. Next week will mark his sixth visit to Augusta, where he has successfully advanced in the past four years, with his best finish being tied for sixteenth in 2023, and tied for twenty-second last year; he has participated in twenty-two majors without breaking into the top ten, but this year he may challenge himself to achieve the goal of completing four majors.

Sergio Garcia has become one of the focal points of the LIV Tour in the past year! This forty-five-year-old Spanish star has suffered defeats in three playoffs but brought immense joy to the home crowd when he returned to Spain last July, clinching both the individual and team championships at LIV Golf Andalucia, finishing third in the year-end individual rankings, and winning two titles again at the Hong Kong event last month. Notably, Garcia's team, Fireballs GC, has won the team championship in Adelaide, Hong Kong, and Singapore consecutively, and will challenge for a fourth win this week, while he can return to Augusta every year thanks to the green jacket he earned in 2017.

Additionally, other past champions participating in the Masters include Jon Rahm, Dustin Johnson, Patrick Reed, Phil Mickelson, Charl Schwartzel, and Bubba Watson, while Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, and Tyrrell Hatton have qualified in other ways.