Sports SINGAPORE – The winning fling continues for Sergio Garcia’s Fireballs GC. The wins preserve piling up for Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann .
Fueled by but every other Sunday rate, the Fireballs won LIV Golf Singapore by three shots for his or her third consecutive group of workers title this season. It’s the longest safe fling for either a group of workers or particular particular person player since 4Aces GC won four straight group of workers titles in all places in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Collection in 2022.
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The Fireballs will attempt and match that at subsequent month’s LIV Golf Miami, April 4-6. “We’re the only ones that can keep the streak alive,” Garcia stated. “Hopefully we’ll keep it going.”
Niemann won for the 2nd time within the final three tournaments, shooting the day’s ideal bogey-free round, a 6-below 65 to safe by five shots. The 26-year-used Chilean strikes atop the Particular particular person Champion facets standings and can peep to preserve that repute for at the least the following two months in hopes of earning the LIV Golf exemption into this year’s U.S. Start.
“Today was one of those days,” stated Niemann, who won by three shots in Adelaide . “Everything went my way.”
Each winning efforts capped off spectacular performances at Sentosa Golf Club’s worthy 7,420-yard Serapong route.
The Fireballs won despite an sick Garcia, final week’s particular particular person winner in Hong Kong , who got right here down with bronchitis and had a fever of 102.4 on the eve of the match. He battled to shoot even par for the week nonetheless his three teammates, led by David Puig’s solo fourth at 10 below, stepped up to rally from an eight-shot deficit to delivery up the final round.
“This week was a tough week because I’ve been sick all week and haven’t been able to help the team as much as I would have liked to,” Garcia stated. “To see the performance that my teammates put in to be able to get this win was pretty impressive.”
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Puig’s 5-below 66 became as soon as supported by Luis Masaveu’s 68 and Abraham Ancer’s 69 as the group of workers shot 10-below on Sunday, tying for the bottom group of workers score of the day.
“Counting four scores, eight strokes seem like a lot, but it can change in two holes,” Ancer stated. “We just told ourselves that, and we just needed to take care of business and play our game.”
For the 23-year-used Puig, it’s his eighth overall LIV Golf group of workers victory, extra than every other player. He won four events with Niemann’s Torque GC in 2023 and now has won four events with Fireballs GC.
“I love team golf,” Puig stated. “I think I’m a good team player. I like to be surrounded by a good group of guys, and I have them here at the Fireballs. I just have a lot of fun, and I never give up, and I just love it.”
Niemann entered the final round tied with Dustin Johnson, the 4Aces GC captain. The duel between the necessary hopeful and the 2-time main winner by no means materialized.
Niemann birdied his opening hole, then added four extra birdies all over a five-hole stretch between holes No. 4-8, somehow finishing at 17 below. Meanwhile, Johnson suffered two bogeys on his first nine, then two extra after the flip, shooting a 2-over 73 to plunge into a tie for fifth at 9 below.
As it turned out, Niemann’s greatest challenger became as soon as defending Singapore champion Brooks Koepka, who birdied his first three holes and matched Niemann’s 65 to enact solo 2nd at 12 below.
“Not really hitting it great,” Koepka stated, “but kind of tried to figure out how to finish second because first was obviously out of reach.”
Out of attain because Niemann has become a dominant power in LIV Golf. He won two of the first three tournaments in 2024 and led the facets standings for quite rather a lot of the season till being caught unhurried by Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm. Now he’s atop the standings again with two wins within the first four events. He hasty turned his consideration to LIV Golf Miami.
“There [are] a few things that I can improve, then go down to Miami and have a chance to win,” he stated. “I feel like that for me is really exciting to become a better player and try to get better every day.”
TEAM SCORES
LIV Golf’s unusual scoring structure this season now involves all four scores now counting in every round within the group of workers competitors. Here are the results and scores for every group of workers after Sunday’s Round 3 of LIV Golf Singapore.
1. FIREBALLS GC -22 (Puig 66, Masaveu 68, Ancer 69, Garcia 71; Rd. 3: -10)
2. LEGION XIII -19 (Hatton 66, Rahm 67, McKibbin 70, Surratt 71; Rd. 3: -10)
3. 4ACES GC -18 (Reed 70, Varner III 70, Johnson 73, Pieters 73; Rd. 3: +2)
4. TORQUE GC -16 (Niemann 65, Muñoz 70, Pereira 72, Ortiz 73; Rd. 3: -4)
5. CRUSHERS GC -13 (DeChambeau 67, Lahiri 69, Casey 70, Howell III 70; Rd. 3: -8)
6. STINGER GC -12 (Oosthuizen 67, Burmester 69, Grace 70, Schwartzel 70; Rd. 3: -8)
7. HYFLYERS GC -11 (Ogletree 70, Tringale 70, Mickelson 72, Steele 76; Rd. 3: +4)
8. SMASH GC -10 (Koepka 65, Gooch 68, Kokrak 72, McDowell 74; Rd. 3: -5)
9. RANGEGOATS GC -6 (Campbell 67, Uihlein 68, Watson 71, Wolff 74; Rd. 3: -4)
10. RIPPER GC E (Jones 71, Leishman 72, Smith 72, Herbert 74; Rd. 3: +5)
11. IRON HEADS GC +2 (Na 69, Catlin 74, Jang 75, Lee 76; Rd. 3: +10)
12. CLEEKS GC +17 (Bland 67, Meronk 68, Kaymer 69, Kjettrup 77; Rd. 3: -3)
13. MAJESTICKS GC +19 (Westwood 71, Horsfield 72, Poulter 73, Stenson 73; Rd. 3: +4)
Wild Cards: Lee 70, Kim 72
This piece is courtesy of Mike McAllister in partnership with LIV Golf .
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