{"id":417231,"date":"2026-01-16T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:15:10","slug":"liv-golf-2026-season-player-preview-branden-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/417231\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf 2026 Season Player Preview: Branden Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT THE STATS SAY<\/p>\n<p>Strengths:\u00a0Grace ranked 19th in Strokes Gained: Approach in 2025, gaining 0.25 strokes per round. He thrived primarily in the 150-225 range, where he ranked 12th in the league.\u00a0He had a putting breakthrough in the second half of the season when he gained strokes on the greens in six consecutive events to end the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weaknesses: Grace\u2019s biggest weakness in 2025 was his ability to score efficiently on a consistent basis. Only 19% of the South African\u2019s rounds were under par, which put him in the bottom fourth of the league.<\/p>\n<p>Grace struggled with the driver throughout the season. He ranked 36th in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee, losing 0.17 strokes per round. He was neither long (304.4) nor reliably accurate (57.7%) relative to the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CAREER RESULTS<\/p>\n<p>LIV GOLF REGULAR SEASON\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Year \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Team \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Starts \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rounds \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01st \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02nd \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03rd \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Total Top 10\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2022 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stinger \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a07\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a019 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2023 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stinger \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a039\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2024 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stinger \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a013 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a039\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2025 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stinger \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a036\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Total\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 45\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 133 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHAT THE STATS SAY Strengths:\u00a0Grace ranked 19th in Strokes Gained: Approach in 2025, gaining 0.25 strokes per round.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-417231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417231","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=417231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}