How the Indy 500 may influence LIV Golf Indianapolis

WESTFIELD, Ind. (WISH) — For the first time in LIV Golf history, the golf league is playing a tournament in the state of Indiana.

LIV Golf Indianapolis begins Friday at The Club at Chatham Hills in Westfield, Ind.

The three-day tournament will run through Sunday.

The event is the league’s individual championship finale as well this season. Joaquin Niemann and Jon Rahm are the only golfers still alive for a chance to win the LIV Golf individual title. Niemann enters this weekend with 208.43 points, while Rahm has 196.16 points.

“I still believe I need to win this week, being a 12-point gap,” Rahm said. “If I win, I think that basically takes care of things, unless he finishes solo second.”

Rahm won the 2024 LIV Golf individual title.

“It’s a bit of — in golf, you work so hard so accomplish something, and the second you get it done, you find yourself at the base of the mountain again having to start all over,” Rahm said. “So I think it’s always equally difficult. Especially when somebody plays really good, everybody else around is working just as hard to try to get to that level.”

Rahm said on Wednesday that this week is his first trip to the Indianapolis area. He said he already has gone to St. Elmo Steak House and has explored downtown a little bit.

He also had a chance to stop by Indianapolis Motor Speedway this week.

While there, Rahm may have received some inspiration on what to do if he or anyone on his team (Legion XIII) wins this week: Celebrate by drinking milk, like the Indy 500 champion does each year.

“I already told them, too, that will happen, and before we head to Detroit, where if somebody wins individually or the team wins as a team, I think — whoever does it, actually, should go to the actual Brickyard Crossing and take a famous picture of kissing the bricks because I think it’s a cool tradition, and if you can get it done, then why not,” Rahm said. “I think it would be cool to do it. I refused to do it that day because I don’t want to jinx the team or myself. But the milk, I feel like it would be a very easy one to do, and to substitute champagne with milk I think would be really, really fun to do.”

Rahm, along with other LIV golfers will be on the course in Westfield on Thursday taking part in a Pro-Am.

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