2024 LIV Team Championship format: How does it work, points system and more explored

Last Sunday, LIV Golf declared Jon Rahm the winner of the league’s Individual Championship in Chicago. Following that, the league eyes for its venture in Dallas. The team championship will take place at Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton from 20 to 22 September.

After the LIV Golf Chicago, all 13 teams will have their final standings in the LIV list according to the points they bagged from the regular season LIV events. These teams will finally face off against each other at the Dallas event in a knockout format that combines strokeplay and matchplay.

The Team Championship will be a three-round event. The top three teams in the LIV standings after the Chicago tournament will get byes and go directly to the semifinals. These teams are Crushers GC (208.5 points), Legion XIII (200 points), and Ripper GC (151 points).

The remaining ten teams will compete in the quarterfinals. Here, the teams seeded four to seven will get to choose their opponents for the first day of the team match-play. Each matchup will consist of three points. Two singles matches worth one point each and one foursome alternate-shot match worth another point.

Finally, five winners of the quarterfinals join the top three teams in the semifinals. Teams 1-3 can choose their opponents. The semifinals will have the same format as the quarterfinals. On Sunday, four winners of the semifinals will compete for 18 holes for strokeplay. The victor of the stroke play will be the 2024 team champion.

Where did golfers stand after the final round of the LIV Golf Chicago?

Jon Rahm won the LIV event in Chicago with 11-under. Next to him, Joaquin Niemann and Sergio Garcia sealed the second place with 8-under. Niemann and Garcia were three shots short of Rahm. Tyrrell Hatton settled for fourth place at 7-under and Ian Poulter finished fifth with 6-under. Here's the entire list of individual standings after the Chicago tournament:

• 1 Jon Rahm -11
• T2 Joaquín Niemann -8
• T2 Sergio Garcia -8
• 4 Tyrrell Hatton -7
• 5 Ian Poulter -6
• T6 Henrik Stenson -5
• T6 Anirban Lahiri -5
• T6 Bryson DeChambeau -5
• T6 Lucas Herbert -5
• T6 Brooks Koepka -5
• T11 Abraham Ancer -4
• T11 Thomas Pieters -4
• T13 Harold Varner III -3
• T13 Paul Casey -3
• T15 Talor Gooch -2
• T15 Jinichiro Kozuma -2
• T15 Peter Uihlein -2
• T15 Richard Bland -2
• T15 Kalle Samooja -2
• T20 Sebastián Muñoz -1
• T20 David Puig -1
• T20 Carlos Ortiz -1
• T23 Kieran Vincent E
• T23 Graeme McDowell E
• T23 Phil Mickelson E
• T23 Matt Jones E
• T23 Kevin Na E
• T23 Scott Vincent E
• T23 Adrian Meronk E
• T30 Brendan Steele +1
• T30 Louis Oosthuizen +1
• T30 Patrick Reed +1
• T30 Danny Lee +1
• T34 Cameron Tringale +2
• T34 Marc Leishman +2
• T34 Branden Grace +2
• T34 Martin Kaymer +2
• T34 Sam Horsfield +2
• T34 Dustin Johnson +2
• T40 Andy Ogletree +3
• T40 Eugenio Chacarra +3
• T42 Bubba Watson +4
• T42 Anthony Kim +4
• T42 Charles Howell III +4
• T42 Dean Burmester +4
• T42 Charl Schwartzel +4
• T47 Matthew Wolff +5
• T47 Pat Perez +5
• T47 Lee Westwood +5
• T47 Mito Pereira +5
• 51 Jason Kokrak +6
• 52 Cameron Smith +10
• 53 Hudson Swafford +13
• 54 Caleb Surratt +18