Bryson DeChambeau highlights 14 in field

The PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) have long been attempting to negotiate a deal to reunify men’s professional golf. Thus far, those efforts have fallen short.

Because of this, the world’s top players remain separated across two circuits – the PGA Tour and LIV Golf – and rarely compete against one another.

However, there is notable crossover between the two leagues at most of golf’s major events. That will include the 2025 U.S. Open, where several LIV Golf players have qualified to be a part of the 156-golfer field.

LIV Golf is notably sending seven major-winning golfers to compete for the U.S. Open Championship Trophy at Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania. That includes two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau and six-time major champion Phil Mickelson.

Here’s a look at the full list of LIV Golfers competing at the 2025 U.S. Open:

LIV Golfers at 2025 U.S. Open

A total of 14 LIV Golf players are set to compete at the 2025 U.S. Open:

• Jose Luis “Josele” Ballester
• Richard Bland
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Dustin Johnson
• Brooks Koepka
• Jinichiro Kozuma
• Marc Leishman
• Phil Mickelson
• Joaquin Niemann
• Carlos Ortiz
• Jon Rahm
• Patrick Reed
• Cameron Smith

Of the group, three – Kozuma, Leishman and Ortiz – won qualifying tournaments to earn the right to play in the major tournament. Six – DeChambeau, Johnson, Koepka, Mickelson, Rahm and Smith – qualified because they had won a U.S. Open within the last 10 years or another major event within the last five.

The remaining five had more unique paths to a spot in the field. Hatton and Reed are both in the top 60 of the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) which got them into the field. Meanwhile, Bland won the 2025 U.S. Senior Open to qualify while Ballester – who recently joined LIV Golf and made his debut at the circuit’s Virginia event – did the same by winning 2024 U.S. Amateur.

Finally, Niemann earned a new exemption awarded by the USGA – the governing body of the U.S. Open – “to the top player who is not otherwise exempt and in the top 3 of the 2025 LIV Golf Individual Standings as of May 19, 2025.” Niemann earned that honor having won three of seven LIV Golf events in which he participated ahead of the May 19 deadline.

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