Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 US Open champion, has fired a uncommon 58 within the ultimate spherical to win the LIV Golf Greenbrier title.
The 29-year-old American had 13 birdies in opposition to a lone bogey to complete on 23-under 187 for the 54-hole occasion on the resort in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.
That was sufficient for a six-stroke victory over Chile’s Mito Pereira, who fired a closing 63.
“I’m taking part in rather well,” mentioned DeChambeau after his 12-under ultimate spherical. “I’ve received some tools that’s performing very properly, my driver, and that’s a lethal mixture with my placing.
“Drove it properly, putted properly, wedged it fairly properly.”
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DeChambeau’s rating on the Previous White course on the upstart Saudi-backed circuit matched the bottom spherical in US PGA Tour historical past, the 12-under 58 fired by American Jim Furyk in 2016 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
The Previous White hosted a PGA occasion from 2010 to 2019 and Australian Stuart Appleby fired a 59 within the ultimate spherical of the inaugural match to win the title.
DeChambeau birdied 22 of his final 34 holes on The Previous White for his first victory because the 2021 PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
It additionally was DeChambeau’s first win since his father, Jon DeChambeau, died final November at age 63 after years of battling kidney illness.
“He was with me on the market all day in the present day, little doubt,” DeChambeau mentioned. “It has been a extremely tough couple of years however doing it this manner and ending out with a 58… it’s simply wonderful what I used to be in a position to do. I’m tremendous excited.” Requested if the 58 would possibly carry a name from US Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson to play subsequent month in opposition to Europe in Italy, DeChambeau was matter of reality concerning the prospect.
“If I do get a name that will be superior,” he mentioned. “If not, I’ll be rooting them on over in Rome.” Different 58s worldwide embrace these fired by Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa in 2010 and South Korea’s Kim Seong-hyeon in 2021 on the Japan Tour, American Jason Bohn in 2001 on the Canadian Tour, Germany’s Stephan Jaeger in 2016 on the US developmental Korn Ferry Tour and Spain’s Alejandro del Rey in 2021 on the Problem Tour.
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DeChambeau opened with back-to-back birdies, reeled off 4 in a row beginning on the fourth gap, took his lone bogey on the par-3 eighth however adopted with back-to-back birdies at 9 and 10.
He birdied the par-5 twelfth then closed with consecutive birdies on the par-3 fifteenth, par-4 sixteenth and par-5 seventeenth, knocking in a six-foot putt, and the par-3 18th, the place he sank a protracted putt from over a ridge in wet circumstances then jumped for pleasure and pumped his proper fist in celebration.
DeChambeau opened Friday with a 68 and matched the prior all-time low spherical in LIV’s two-season historical past with a 61 on Saturday to tug inside a stroke of 36-hole US co-leaders Matthew Wolff and David Puig.
Within the workforce competitors, Pereira’s Torque completed on 49-under to defeat DeChambeau’s Crushers by three strokes.js/dj