LIV Golf League Chicago Predictions: Rahm Can Claim Top Spot

It’s the final regular week of the LIV Golf League 2024 which means prizes, guaranteed playing rights in 2025 and relegation are at stake. 

• Bryson DeChambeau is the defending champion

• The tournament moves to a new venue

• Jon Rahm is the favorite and is chasing a $14 million bonus

LIV Chicago Odds

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LIV Chicago Picks and Predictions

• Jon Rahm to win at +500 with Caesars Sportsbook

• Sebastian Munoz each way at +3300 with Caesars Sportsbook

• Henrik Stenson top 20 at +188 with bet365

LIV Golf Chicago Intro

It’s the final event of the regular season (next week’s tournament is the team finale) and there is plenty still up for grabs.

Jon Rahm leads the rankings and only Joaquin Niemann can prevent him being crowned champion. The Chilean needs to finish ahead of Rahm and in the top three or hope the Spaniard has a really bad week.

The top 24 players in the rankings will have guaranteed playing rights for 2025.

But no-one wants to finish in 49th or below - otherwise known as the Drop Zone. Heading into this week, it is mathematically possible for 14 players to be relegated so there wil be many nervous golfers.

Everyone in the field also has an eye on the status of their teams because the top three-ranked teams after this week will earn a bye through next week’s first round of the team championship.

Who will take the honors this week? Let’s find out.

LIV Golf League 2024 Winners

The Bolingbook Golf Club Course Notes

• The course is a par-70 playing to 7,131 yards

• It was designed by Arthur Hills and Steve Forrest

• Other Hills designs used on pro tours include Keene Trace, Trump National & Oitavos Dunes

• The 15th hole is a par-3 set at 156 yards and features an island green

• It has rolling fairways and elevated greens 

• There are seven lakes which are in play on 12 holes

Contenders to Win the LIV Golf Chicago

Jon Rahm (+500)

“I'm probably going to need to win,” said Rahm of his fight for seasonal top spot with Niemann. “He’s going to be up there. I'm going to need another good week.” And here’s a quirky fact: Rahm has led after 54 holes in his last three starts. He won LIV UK, slipped outside the top three in the final round of the Olympics, and then lost a playoff in LIV Greenbrier.

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Bryson DeChambeau (+750)

DeChambeau was mostly superb in the majors in 2024. He led the Masters at halfway, was second in the PGA Championship, and won the US Open. His LIV efforts have not been quite so strong, however. He has recorded just two top five finishes from the first 12 starts and has a best of third. He hasn’t finished in the top 10 in his last two starts.

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Joaquin Niemann (+1000)

“He's been playing great lately, so he's probably going to keep doing the same,” Niemann said of Rahm. “I've got to try to bring my A game.” A two-time winner before the end of March, he then struggled in the majors, but he has finished in the top four in six of his 13 LIV starts this year.

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Rahm Can Claim Top Spot

This has not been the year Jon Rahm had wished for.

He struggled in the majors and often cut an unhappy figure on the course.

But he he claimed a first win on LIV in the UK and he has been ultra-consistent throughout the campaign.

In fact he is 11-for-11 at finishing top 10 with seven top fives finishes.

Now he will want to end the year on a high and finishing first in the rankings comes with a $14 million bonus.

Victory will secure it and he’ll be chasing that prize.

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Munoz Can Ride the Hills

This might be the first LIV visit to the course but it is not the first time that the league has played on an Arthur Hills course.

Last May LIV DC took place at Trump National which is another Hills layout and Colombia’s Sebastian Munoz carded rounds of 70-68-70 to finish fourth.

Last time out he scored 63-66-66 to record sixth place in LIV Greenbrier but there is more.

Munoz, it appears, really likes playing golf in Illinois.

He finished sixth there on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2018, was eighth in the PGA Tour’s 2020 BMW Championship at Olympia Fields and fourth in the 2021 John Deere Classic.

He was also fourth in LIV Chicago last year at Rich Harvest Farms.

He’s the value each way pick at +3300 with Caesars Sportsbook paying five places.

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Stenson Needs a Good Week

Sweden’s Henrik Stenson needs a good week because although he currently sits above the Drop Zone he can still mathematically fall into it.

But he’ll be pleased that they are playing a Hills design this week.

He was fourth at Trump National and also third in the 2019 Scandinavian Invitational at Hills GC - another Arthur Hills creation.

He was also fifth in last year’s LIV Chicago.

Back him to land another top 20 with bet365 offering +188 that includes ties.

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How to Watch LIV Golf Chicago

• Tournament: LIV Golf Chicago

• Location: Bolingbrook Golf Club, USA

• Date: Friday September 13 - Sunday September 15

• How to Watch: FRIDAY on the CW App. LIV Golf Plus and Caffeine. Saturday - Sunday on The CW Network, CW App, and LIV Golf Plus.