{"id":307870,"date":"2025-11-25T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307870\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:29:07","slug":"liv-golf-2026-season-player-preview-abraham-ancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/307870\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf 2026 Season Player Preview: Abraham Ancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT THE STATS SAY<\/p>\n<p>Strengths: Ancer is one of the most accurate players in the league. He hit 68% of his fairways, which trailed only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/henrik-stenson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henrik Stenson<\/a> among full time LIV Golf players. He ranked 12th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, gaining 0.36 strokes on the field per round, which emphasizes just how impactful his driving accuracy was considering his lack of distance off the tee.<\/p>\n<p>Ancer is a phenomenal wedge player. He ranked 14th overall in Strokes Gained: Approach but was ninth in the category from 150 yards and in. He also had a solid year with the putter, ranking 22nd in the league in Strokes Gained: Putting.<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses: Ancer is great with his short irons but is not as effective with a longer iron in his hand. He ranked 41st in the league in approach from 150-225 yards and 30th from 225+ yards, losing strokes to the field on average in both categories.<\/p>\n<p>Ancer\u2019s biggest statistical weakness in 2025 was his around the green play. He ranked 41st in Strokes Gained: Around the Green, losing 0.16 strokes to the field on average. This led to a Scrambling rate of 59%, which ranked in the bottom half of the league.<\/p>\n<p>CAREER RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>LIV GOLF REGULAR SEASON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHAT THE STATS SAY Strengths: Ancer is one of the most accurate players in the league. He hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}