Bryson DeChambeau Wins LIV Golf Korea as Crushers GC Sweep Both Titles

For three rounds, the question around Bryson DeChambeau was whether he could finish one of these. On Sunday in Incheon, the answer came with a 48-foot putt and a teammate breathing down his neck the entire way.

DeChambeau closed with a 6-under 66 to win LIV Golf Korea at 19-under 197, two shots clear of Crushers GC teammate Charles Howell III, who fired a final-round 63 to finish alone in second at 17 under. Talor Gooch shot 66 to take third at 14 under. It is DeChambeau's third LIV Golf title, his first since 2023 and, per LIV Golf, his first LIV win after carrying the lead into the final round. The Crushers made it a sweep, closing with a 20-under team round to win the team title at 35 under, nine clear of Smash GC.

The Chase Was Real

DeChambeau started Sunday four clear, and for a while that looked like plenty. It did not stay that way. Howell opened with three straight birdies, reached 4 under for the day at the turn and cut the lead to one. DeChambeau, meanwhile, made his only bogey of the week at the par-4 sixth and turned at even par for the round.

That is the exact script that has haunted DeChambeau lately. Per Arab News, he had let 36-hole leads slip at the previous two LIV events and lost a lead with 16 holes to play at the Masters. A friendly teammate was suddenly the most dangerous player on the course.

Five Straight and a Long One

The back nine turned into a match. DeChambeau made four birdies in a six-hole stretch, and Howell answered with five birdies in a row. With three holes left, they were tied at 17 under.

Then the round broke. Howell found a fairway bunker at the 16th and made his only bogey of the day. One hole later, DeChambeau rolled in a 48-foot birdie putt at the 17th to take control, and he closed with a birdie at the par-5 18th to finish two clear.

"Charles and I had a great battle out there," DeChambeau said. Per Arab News, he added that it was fun but intense, "Super-intense."

Howell, playing in the final group, had no regrets about the effort. "I knew today would be a tough day to catch Bryson and even to try to beat him, but I gave it my best," Howell said. The 63 was the round of the day and a loud statement from a player who missed three months last season with a stress fracture in the left tibia, per Arab News. DeChambeau did not hide the pride, either: "I'm so proud of Chuckie, the way he fought out there today."

The Rest of the Podium

Gooch, who shared the first-round lead, never got close enough to make it a three-way fight but posted a steady 66 to finish alone in third at 14 under, four clear of fourth. Patrick Reed shot a bogey-free 65 to tie Thomas Pieters for fourth at 10 under, and Matthew Wolff's 67 left the RangeGoats GC star alone in sixth at 9 under.

A five-way tie for seventh at 8 under included Jon Rahm, Cameron Smith, Carlos Ortiz, Jinichiro Kozuma and Richard Bland. Bland, second after 36 holes, slid back with a 73. Not everyone from Saturday's 8-under group kept pace: Dean Burmester shot 74 to tie for 13th, and Jason Kokrak's 77 dropped the Smash GC man into a tie for 27th.

Crushers Rewrite the Team Race

The team competition flipped completely. Smash GC started Sunday six shots ahead of the Crushers and finished nine behind them. Howell's 63, DeChambeau's 66 and a 67 from Paul Casey led a 20-under round that, per LIV Golf, was 12 shots better than any other foursome on the day. Anirban Lahiri, whose 79 on Saturday had put the team in a hole, steadied with a 72. "I really wanted to get on that podium for the team," Lahiri said.

Casey, whose week opened with a 76, was refreshingly honest about the division of labor. "Charles and Bryson won this for us. Our job was to not mess it up, if I'm being honest," Casey said.

Smash managed only 5 under on Sunday and finished second at 26 under. Torque GC shot 3 under to take third at 18 under. The team win was worth $3 million to the Crushers, per Golf News Net.

Halfway Home

Korea marked the midpoint of the 2025 LIV Golf season, and the standings shifted with it. DeChambeau moved into second in the individual race behind Torque GC captain Joaquin Niemann, per LIV Golf, and edged ahead of Rahm by less than a point. Legion XIII still leads the team standings comfortably, with the Crushers now third.

Ian Poulter's tie for 13th earned the Majesticks GC co-captain his first points of the season and lifted him into the Open Zone at 45th. Branden Grace, who missed the week with an injury, slipped into the Drop Zone at 49th.

The bigger picture for DeChambeau is the calendar. The defending U.S. Open champion now heads toward the PGA Championship with a trophy in hand and, more to the point, proof that a lead can be closed out. After two near misses at LIV events and a Sunday at Augusta that got away, that may be the most valuable thing he takes out of Korea. The Crushers, meanwhile, now know what a full four-man effort looks like.

Our earlier coverage from Incheon: the Round 1 recap and the Round 2 recap. LIV Golf's own final-round story is the official LIV Golf Korea recap (opens in a new tab).

Sources: LIV Golf (final-round recap), Arab News, Golf News Net (final leaderboard). More golf coverage on Undrafted.

Photo: Montana Pritchard/LIV Golf.