Out of the Rough: LIV Golf Indianapolis (2025)

LIV Golf heads to Indianapolis for the very first time for this week’s individual championship at The Club at Chatham Hills.

This is the final individual event of the 2025 LIV Golf Tour schedule.

The Club at Chatham Hills was the final design of storied golf architect Pete Dye, who resided ten minutes from the venue.

The Tour will head to Michigan for next week’s LIV Golf Michigan and the end-of-the-season Team Championship at The Cardinal at Saint John’s.

The Field

As some look to claim victory this week, others look to secure a contract for next season and play themselves into the ‘Lock Zone.”

As it currently sits the golfers facing relegation are Mito Pereira, Andy Ogletree, Luis Masaveu, Ian Poulter and Yubin Jang.

Those who the aforementioned names are looking to upend and push from the ‘Lock Zone’ into the ‘Drop Zone’ are the first five inside the cut line are Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, Brendan Steele, Chieh-Po Lee and Kevin Na.

Despite winning five times this season, the once sizable lead held by Joaquon Niemann is down to just 12.27 points over Jon Rahm. Dramatics will ensue this week as both golfers eye to claim the season-long individual title. No one else is within 55 points of the pair.

Legion XIII (Rahm, Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbing and Caleb Surratt) will also head into next week at the top seed for the end-of-the-season Team Championship as they currently lead second place Crushers GC (Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey, Charles Howell III and Anirban Lahiri) by 46.66 points.

The Course

As previously mentioned, The Club at Chatham Hills was the final masterpiece in the storied career of legendary golf architect Pete Dye.

Dye was a lifelong resident of Indiana and he lived just ten minutes from the course. That made this project one of the most personal of his career, especially being the last time he got ‘time in the dirt.’

It plays as a par-72 at roughly 7,334 yards and was opened in 2016.

It was constructed on a near 800-acre plot of land north of Indianapolis that was previously owned by the same family for eight generations.

Off-the-tee, visually, golfers will look onto what will appear to be narrow fairways from elevated tee boxes. However, the fairways are actually rather generous and wide.

The strategically placed bunkers are uniform across the course. They consist of thin strips of sand that resemble what most would describe as graves.

Those who find these bunkers off-the-tee will find recording a birdie next to impossible. 

Various lakes, streams and ponds also come into play around this golf course, which will require a touch of accuracy off-the-tee to avoid big numbers. Distance will also be needed to attack this 7,300-plus yard golf course. So those who can find the balance of the two will see an advantage.

From there, the greens are described as ‘lighting fast’ and will be both tough to hold and to putt on. The greens are also Bentgrass.

The par-threes this week range from 155-yards (second) to 226 yards (eighth.)

The par-five seventh features a downhill tee-shot that leads into an approach shot over a pond.

The par-four tenth, 12th and 15th holes have water in play off-the-tee.

The 18th is a tough final hole, playing uphill and often-times, into the wind.

The Weather

As of the time of writing this, Friday calls for just a 15-percent chance of precipitation and a 25–percenet chance on both Saturday and Sunday. Temperatures will begin at 88-degrees on Friday before peaking at 90-degrees on Saturday and returning to 89-degrees on Sunday. Winds will begin at just five miles-per-hour on Friday before peaking at seven miles-per-hour on Saturday and returning to six miles-per-hour on Sunday. Overall, it appears to be a perfect three days for golf.

Key Stats

• Greens in Regulation Percentage (GIR%)

• Total Driving (70-percent Average Driving Distance / 30-percent Hit Fairway Percentage)

• Putting Average

• Scrambling

• Birdie-or-Better Percentage

Betting Card

Sebastian Munoz (+2700)

I’m going back to the Munoz well. He’s just been consistently good for a long period of time as of late and books continue to dangle big numbers in front of us. He placed tenth last week in Chicago, 11th in the U.K. prior and tenth in Andalucia across his last three starts. He is currently seventh on Tour in GIR%, eighth in putting average, ninth in birdie-or-better percentage, 16th in scrambling and 23rd in total driving. 

Carlos Ortiz (+3000)

This is my favorite play this week. I really wanted to single bullet Jon Rahm but the value just wasn’t there. Either way, Ortiz will do with insane value. He is currently seventh on Tour in birdie-or-better percentage, 15th in all three of GIR%, total driving and putting average as well as 27th in scrambling. He placed fourth last week in Chicago and let’s not forget that he finished fourth at the U.S. Open not that long ago.

Charl Schwartzel (+9000)

After hitting on one South African last week in Chicago, I’ll return to that well this week with a massive number next to Schwartzel’s name. He is currently first on Tour in putting average, third in scrambling, 11th in birdie-or-better percentage, 32nd in total driving and 37th in GIR%. He placed 25th last week in Chicago but was 11th in the U.K. in the start prior.