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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
DeChambeau Finally Gets it Done
Lose, lose, lose, win. That has been Bryson DeChambeau's result in his last four events, but as he stood on the 18th green in the final round of the LIV Golf Korea event, the three previous losses were far in the rearview mirror with his third LIV individual win. Advertisement Losing is a familiar result if you play professional golf for a living. Still, in DeChambeau's case, he was in the final group at LIV Miami, The Masters, and LIV Mexico, but faltered in the final round every time. So, when DeChambeau started Sunday in Incheon, the last three events had to be somewhere on his mind. 'I was personally pretty nervous on the front nine for whatever reason,' DeChambeau said after his final round 66. 'That putt I made on 8 was great, two-putt on 9. After the 9th hole, I don't know what hit me, I just said, you know what, just play like a kid again, and I started doing that on the back nine and striped a 3-wood on 11, gave me a lot of confidence.' Bryson DeChambeau in action during the first round of LIV Golf Korea at Jack Nicklaus Golf Course. Kim Soo-Hyeon/Reuters via Imagn Images Recording 20 birdies and a lone bogey in the final round, DeChambeau showed nothing but supreme confidence, almost like the last three failures meant nothing. Advertisement The other dynamic that DeChambeau had to address was the fact that the final threesome included his Crusher teammate Charles Howell III. Good friends, Howell started the day five shots behind the Crushers' captain but methodically chipped away at DeChambeau's lead. Starting the round with three consecutive birdies, Howell was a constant irritant to DeChambeau, and when he made his lone bogey of the tournament on the sixth hole, and then Howell made his fourth birdie, the lead was just one shot. When the group made the turn, they would record 12 birdies, and when Howell made a birdie on the 14th, the lead had evaporated. Advertisement After both birdied the par 5 15th hole, the match turned on the par 4 16th hole when Howell found the right fairway bunker, 30 yards behind DeChambeau, who was at just 137 yards from the hole. The Augusta native could not get to the green, and his third stayed on the front edge, leaving Howell with a 17-footer that was short of par. Getting back his one-shot lead propelled DeChambeau with birdies on the final two holes, 48 footer on the 17th and tap-in on the 18th and a two-shot victory over Howell. Charles Howell III of the Crushers GC plays his shot from the 16th tee during the LIV Golf Dallas Team Championship Semifinals at Maridoe Golf Club. Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images 'Chucky and I had a great battle out there. He never wavered today, it felt like, until 16,' DeChambeau said. 'It felt like he was just pushing forward, and he was going to shoot 10, 11-under today. I thought, my goodness, I don't know if I could beat that today.' Advertisement When Howell made birdie on the final hole he signed for a 9-under 63, it was the 45-year-old's lowest round under par in his LIV Golf career. Listen, I knew today would be a tough day to catch Bryson and even to try to beat him, but I gave it my best,' Howell said after his round. 'I definitely would have thought 9-under would have done it, and clearly it didn't.' Related: Bryson DeChambeau Isn't Answering the Bell Related: Torque GC Needs to Dump Mito Pereira
Irish Daily Star
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Star
Brandel Chamblee launches brutal attack on new target after vocal LIV Golf criticism
Brandel Chamblee, the former PGA Tour pro turned commentator, has been notably vocal over the past few years regarding his disapproval of the LIV Golf circuit. Last July, he went public to say: "LIV Golf has been detrimental to the competitiveness of (players') careers when they compete at the highest level." But this week, Chamblee's grievances found a new target: the LPGA tour and the setup at a key hole during the Chevron Championship. The seasoned analyst, who previously questioned Rory McIlroy's ability, expressed disappointment on social media about how the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Texas , was presented. It comes after Bryson DeChambeau fumed over the course at LIV Mexico. Read More Related Articles Donald Trump's health mystery - 'forged' medical report to weight loss warning Read More Related Articles PGA Tour star who's earned $14M makes huge announcement about wife after anguish "Hate to see a major end the way Chevron did today," Chamblee remarked on Twitter. "Why is there a grandstand so close to the back edge of a closing hole par 5 that players can hit in two? "It allows players to bounce into the grandstands but also forces everyone all week to walk in the same area, no doubt chewing up the spot where players have to chip from." His comments came after a near-miss incident involving Ariya Jutanugarn, who narrowly avoided hitting a spectator, and then lost the championship in a playoff round. Chamblee elucidated his criticism, noting; "Ariya Jutanugarn's ball should have been off the back of the green some ten yards, leaving a basic chip, but instead was in a horrid lie from which she whiffed her chip and then lost in a playoff." Mao Saigo poses with the trophy after winning the Chevron Championship (Image: Getty Images) Mao Saigo ultimately clinched the victory, outplaying four competitors in the tense playoff, marking her inaugural win on the tour as 2024's LPGA Rookie of the Year seeks to make her presence known. Saigo claimed victory after a birdie on the first playoff hole. She excitedly shared, "I did my best to calm down and I shot and it went in." Jutanugarn was poised for triumph throughout the final round but stumbled with a bogey on the 18th hole. Reflecting on the game, she remarked, "The front nine was very solid especially with the eagle, but back nine just couple mistakes on par 5 that I made; two bogeys." This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Get Peacock Get Peacock starting at $7.99 Looking for more to watch ? Peacock has hit shows, movies, live sports, and more. You can watch popular titles like The Traitors, Yellowstone, and Love Island USA, along with golf tours, NFL games, and Premier League matches all in one place. Peacock offers plans starting at $7.99 a month and you can cancel anytime. $7.99 Peacock Subscribe Here Golf Channel's lead analyst Chamblee, who occasionally provides insights for NBC Sports, has under his belt one PGA Tour win and several notable major performances from his pro days. He hasn't shied away from critiquing those golfers who've recently defected to the breakaway LIV Golf series. "With the exception of DeChambeau, not one LIV player managed a top-five in a major in 2024," Chamblee aired his views on X last summer. Expanding on Bryson's season, he added, "Bryson is without a doubt one of the most compelling figures in the game, and his newfound engagement with the fans was a highlight of the major season, but on the whole LIV players were a huge disappointment in the 2024 majors."
Irish Times
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Tom McKibbin in the money as Legion XIII win team trophy at LIV Mexico
Tom McKibbin has yet to taste individual success since moving to LIV Golf but the 22-year-old Northern Irishman is banking plenty of greenbacks as part of Jon Rahm's Legion XIII team. While Joaquin Niemann again won the individual tournament in LIV Mexico over the weekend (pocketing another $4 million for the win), McKibbin was also in the money after Legion XIII won the team competition for a second time since his arrival. Legion XIII – featuring Rahm, McKibbin, Tyrrell Hatton and Caleb Surratt – won the team element of the tournament from the all-Australian Ripper GC. 'I'm proud of everybody, to hear all four of us shot under par is not easy, it's a hard golf course,' said Rahm of his men who shared the $3 million team prize ($750,000 each). McKibbin only managed to finish tied-34th in the individual competition (which earned him $146,500, taking his total haul from Mexico to $896,500). READ MORE Aside from the multimillion-dollar pay-day, Niemann's win also secured him a place in the field for the US Open at Oakmont in June. Mao Saigo in at the deep end after first Major win Mao Saigo, centre, jumps in the pond on the 18th hole with members of her team after winning The Chevron Championship at Carlton Woods on Sunday. Photograph:Japan's Mao Saigo's post-round dramatics after winning the Chevron Championship – for her first Major title success – almost matched the theatre provided for her to get her hands on the trophy, her victory coming after emerging from a five-woman playoff. Unfortunately for Saigo, one of the traditions associated with winning the Chevron is for the victor to jump into the pond by the 18th green at the Woodlands in Texas ... which, for the non-swimmer, had consequences. 'I was a bit too shy to jump in the pond by myself so I wanted to invite other people to jump in the pond with me ... I'm not really a good swimmer. When I went inside it was deep and at first I thought I was going to drown,' said the 23-year-old who, fortunately, was joined in the water by her caddie Jeffrey Snow and manager Rika Arai. Snow remarked afterward: 'It was scary. Every time I broke the surface, I got pulled under again.' Saigo, last year's rookie of the year on the LPGA Tour, won $1.2 million for her win. 'I still have four more Majors to go, and I want to shoot for number one in the world. I will do my best in the remaining four Majors,' she said. By the Numbers: 1 In what is a quiet week on the main professional circuits, with no events on the DP World Tour or the Ladies European Tour, Séamus Power is the lone Irish player in action on the PGA Tour, competing in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas. Word of Mouth 'I'm looking forward to a couple days off and then sort of kicking the feet up and trying to recharge the batteries a little bit' – Rory McIlroy on taking some rest. McIlroy and team-mate Shane Lowry finished tied-12th in defence of their Zurich Classic of New Orleans (won by Ben Griffin and Andrew Novak). McIlroy is missing this week's Byron Nelson but is scheduled to return at next week's Truist Championship in Philadelphia. South African golfer Simon Hobday in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, June 1975. (Photo by) On this day: April 29th, 1979 He went by the name of 'Scruffy' – a nickname acquired for his inattention to fashion – but Simon Hobday's quirkiness didn't affect his golf, as the South African proved in winning the Madrid Open at Club de Campo. Hobday's second of two career wins on the European Tour came with rounds of 67-73-71-74 for a three-under-par total of 285, two shots clear of the trio of Gordon J Brand, Francesco Abreu and Tienie Britz. In a professional career which saw him win 17 times, including the 1994 US Seniors Open on the Champions Tour, Hobday's fashion sense, of lack of it, was such that he once wrote a letter to a golf clothing brand looking for payment not to wear their outfits. Hobday was known to wash his golf clothes in hotel room baths, using his putter to stir them, and then choosing his next day outfit with the putter lottery of whatever was fished out first. Social Swing 'To my fans ... I decided yesterday to stop my golfing career. 20 years with highs and lows. So much fun and tears. This game is insane. And I LOVED IT! It's the best. I would like to thank all my fans, my family, my friends, every sponsor that helped me and of course the DP World Tour family, and all the players and caddies. And special thanks to four of my idols. José María Olazábal, Fred Couples, Davis Love III and of course the boss, Tiger Woods. It was fun, it was hard, it was fantastic. But I can't do that anymore. My priorities have switched. I will play one last tournament at Crans Montana in August. It's a very special place for me. Merci, gracias, thank you.' – Mike Lorenzo Vera on bringing his career to an end. The Frenchman had seven professional wins, including four on the Challenge Tour, but never managed a victory on the main DP World Tour, his closest call coming in the Sicilian Open where he lost a playoff to Joakim Lagergren in 2018. '73 for a 2 under total, T36th. Missed a couple of chances early on and then kind of lost my way. Sometimes this can be a problem on a Sunday when you just go out there to shoot a really low one @ChampionsTour @MEClassicGolf' – Pádraig Harrington on disappointing finish to the Mitsubishi Electric Classic won by Gerry Kelly. Darren Clarke finished tied-21st. Both Harrington and Clarke are playing in this week's Insperity Invitational in Houston, Texas. In the Bag: Marco Penge (Volvo China Open winner) Driver: Mizuno ST-X 230 (8.5 degrees) 3-wood: Mizuno ST-Max 230 (15 degrees) Utility iron: Mizuno, Pro Fli Hi (2) Irons: Mizuno Pro S-3 (4-PW) Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM10 (50 and 56 degrees), Titleist Vokey SM10-WW Proto (60 degrees) Putter: Titleist SC Super Rat I Ball: Titleist Pro V1 (25) Know the Rules Q: During the first round of a 36-hole stroke play competition which was scheduled to be played on one day, a player, having holed out at the third hole, plays a practice putt on the third green. What is the ruling? A: There is no penalty. The permissions for practising in Rule 5.5b override the prohibitions in Rule 5.2b in that a player is allowed to practise on or near the putting green of the hole just completed even if he or she will play that hole again on the same day.
