WHAT THE STATS SUGGEST\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last season, Torque was second in the league in driving distance but only ninth in driving accuracy. Adding Ancer, who ranked second in the league in driving accuracy (67.58%) will help their cause. \u00a0<\/p>\n
WHERE CAN THEY IMPROVE?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torque has been one of the best teams in the league in terms of ball-striking but will need to improve their short game if they\u2019re to challenge Legion XIII for the Team Championship. Last year, they ranked ninth in scrambling and seventh in putting.\u00a0<\/p>\n
KEY QUOTES\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joaquin Niemann on his 2025 season:\u00a0“I was pretty satisfied.\u00a0Winning five times is something that I look\u00a0back\u00a0now and\u00a0I’m\u00a0pretty proud\u00a0of.\u00a0It was pretty cool.\u00a0But\u00a0yeah, I feel that\u00a0there’s\u00a0a lot to improve. I had five\u00a0wins,\u00a0I only had six top 10s. I know the rest\u00a0wasn’t as\u00a0consistent. So, I feel like I can improve in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joaquin Niemann on the acquisition of Abraham Ancer:\u00a0\u201cHaving Abe on the team,\u00a0it’s\u00a0great.\u00a0He’s\u00a0a great asset.\u00a0He’s\u00a0a great player. So,\u00a0I’m\u00a0pretty happy\u00a0to have a 2026 season with Abraham now on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abraham Ancer on joining Torque:\u00a0\u201cJoining Torque GC is an exciting next step, both personally and professionally. Competing as part of an all-Latin team alongside close friends, whom I admire on and off the golf course adds a layer of connection and purpose that I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait to be a part of.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE\u00a0<\/p>\n
With one of the most talented rosters in the league, anything short of a Team Championship finals appearance would be a disappointment for Torque. All four of their players should compete for individual\u00a0titles\u00a0and Niemann will look to finally earn his first Individual Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
THREE BOLD PREDICTIONS\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joaquin Niemann earns his best major championship finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torque wins three team titles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
At least three different members of the team will have an individual victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHAT THE STATS SUGGEST\u00a0 Last season, Torque was second in the league in driving distance but only ninth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-427946","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\/427946","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=427946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}