Top-level men's golf's long-awaited return to Middle Tennessee was a success as LIV Golf Nashville broke attendance records on a sweltering weekend at The Grove in College Grove.

Tyrrell Hatton earned his first win on the LIV Golf tour, and second overall for his career, with a -19, 195 performance over the three-round tournament. He finished six strokes ahead of fellow Englishman Sam Horsfield (-13, 200) to take the $4-million winner's purse. 

"It was nice to play the last few holes and it not be super tight," Hatton said. "I guess having not won for three-and-a-half years, it feels -- you wonder if you'd be able to do it again in some way. So I was happy that I had sort of proved to myself, and especially bouncing back after the disappointment of last Sunday where that was -- that was going to be a really important day for me, and I struggled the way I did."

The win continued Hatton's streak as the only player to earn points (a top-24 placement) in every LIV Golf event of the season so far. 

"So to put that behind me and to come out here and play like I did, and certainly how I putted this week, certainly won me the golf tournament." 

Hatton held off a formidable field of competition, including reigning U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau, who was less than a week removed from winning his second major and 2023 Masters winner Jon Rahm, who both finished in a tie for third (-12, 201) with Joaquín Niemann and Lee Westwood.

DeChambeau and other stars like  2023 PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka, and 2020 Masters champion Dustin Johnson were a major part of the driving force behind the record-breaking crowd at The Grove, which saw more than 40,000 fans, including sellouts on Saturday and Sunday. The figure is the highest for a U.S.-based event in the three-year history of LIV Golf. 

"When things don't go my way, [I] try to feed off the crowd a little bit to get me pumped up again, and if I hit a great shot, then interact with the fans as much as possible," DeChambeau said after Saturday's competition. "It's what I like to do. I just feed off of it no matter if it's good or bad. They are certainly a raucous crowd, which I love. I think it's awesome." 

Hatton, Rahm, former Tennessee star Caleb Surratt, and Kieran Vincent led Legion XIII to the team title with a total score of -40.