LIV Golf is off to an electric start in 2025. Here's what you might have missed

ADELAIDE, South Australia – A few observations following the first two tournaments of the 2025 LIV Golf season.

Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm and Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann, the top two players in 2024, seem to be picking up right where they left off last season.

Niemann again posted an early win with his victory in Adelaide; last year, he won the season's first and third events.

Rahm has maintained his top-10 streak, with a T2 in Riyadh and a solo sixth in Adelaide. He's never finished outside the top 10 in his 14 LIV Golf tournaments that he's finished; the only thing that stopped him was a foot injury that forced him to WD in Houston last year.

The biggest surprise is that neither player sits atop the Individual standings after two events. That honor belongs to …

Cleeks GC's Adrian Meronk followed his season-opening win under the lights in Riyadh with a respectable T12 in Adelaide, finishing with a sizzling 7-under 65 that included seven birdies and an eagle. Were it not for a couple of double bogeys in his second round, he would've been right in the mix on Sunday.

Meronk also leads the league in birdies made and is third in putting.

He admits that the transition to LIV Golf last season was a bit of a chaotic start, and he didn't find his footing until midseason. But now he's showing why he was the DP World Tour Player of the Year in 2023.

With the USGA and R&A announcing a pathway to the U.S. Open and The Open via the LIV Golf Individual standings, Meronk – as well as all the others not currently qualified for those two majors – have an additional huge incentive.

Prior to this season, Fireballs GC's David Puig has struggled to replicate the form at LIV Golf events that he's shown in non-league starts. Consider