LIV Golf players can be traded, re-signed or earn their way back into the league as teams plan for next season.
As LIV Golf continues to create new pathways for elite players from across the world to compete at golf’s highest levels, the League has entered the offseason window for player movement, free agency and updating team rosters as momentum builds for LIV Golf’s third full season teeing off in February 2025.
The update from LIV Golf comes 24 hours after the circuit confirmed two new events on the schedule for 2025.
LIV Golf’s unique team and individual format features two season-long leaderboards, with points earned at each tournament.
The player with the most points at the conclusion of the final stroke-play event, the Individual Championship, is the season’s Individual Champion while final team standings determine seeding for the season-ending Team Championship. Legion XIII’s Jon Rahm won this year’s Individual title in his first season with LIV Golf, and the all-Australian Ripper GC, captained by Cameron Smith, took home the Team Champion title.
The individual standings are broken down into three categories, with final positions determining a player’s status in the league:
Lock Zone: Players finishing in the Top 24 secure an opportunity with the league next season
Open Zone: Players finishing 25-48 whose contracts are expiring become free agents
Drop Zone: Players finishing 49 and below are relegated, with chances to earn their spot back next season
The following players finished in the Lock Zone at the conclusion of the 2024 regular season:
Players who finished in the Top 24 Lock Zone of the Individual Standings at the conclusion of the regular season are guaranteed an opportunity to play in the 2025 LIV Golf League season.
Those in the Top 24 whose contracts are expiring following the 2024 season are offered a minimum one-year contract extension by their existing team.
If a player in this group decides not to accept the offer from his current team, he will become a free agent and may be signed by another team with an open roster spot.
Teams that have open roster spots will fill those positions during free agency.
In addition to any Top 24 players who opt to become free agents, players who finished 25th to 48th (Open Zone) whose contracts have expired also become free agents.
These players may be re-signed by their previous team or can negotiate a contract with another team that has an open roster spot.
Teams are not obligated to re-sign their free agents from the Open Zone and can instead create an open roster spot. Teams with open spots have the option to:
Sign a Top 24 player who opted to enter free agency
Sign any player in the Open Zone whose contract has expired
Sign or trade for a player contracted with a different team if agreed upon by both teams (Note: A team may not recruit a player under contract with another team unless it has received permission from that player’s team to do so)
Sign a Wild Card player
Sign the winner of The International Series 2024 Rankings
Sign the winner of LIV Golf Promotions 2024
Sign an *external player who was not a regular member of any 2024 LIV Golf team roster
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