{"id":474892,"date":"2026-02-12T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474892\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:36:11","slug":"liv-golfer-shanks-tee-shot-in-adelaide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474892\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV golfer shanks tee shot in Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marc Leishman of Ripper GC in the bunker on the 13th.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8c597bea4446226ffc34b75baa0d3b253d378583.jpeg\" height=\"425\" width=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marc Leishman of Ripper GC in the bunker on the 13th.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With his next shot, the 2024 US Open champion smashed a three-wood 275 metres, landing it on the green of the par-five hole. He missed the eagle putt but still finished with a birdie, and fully restoring normality, DeChambeau also ended the day as co-leader with Australia\u2019s Marc Leishman.<\/p>\n<p>Leishman shot a bogey-free six-under 66 in the first round at the Grange to be a co-leader DeChambeau.<\/p>\n<p>And the American\u2019s fellow major winners Dustin Johnson, who landed two eagles in his five under, and Jon Rahm (four under) lurk ominously.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Kim shares second place at five under, a shot ahead of Abraham Ancer and Northern Ireland\u2019s Graham McDowell who both banked rounds of 68.<\/p>\n<p>Leishman entered the opening round in the shadows of his compatriots Cam Smith and the emerging Elvis Smylie, who won on his LIV debut last weekend in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Smith, after carding bogeys on his initial three holes, fought back to finish even par, while the 23-year-old Smylie shot three birdies in his two-under 70.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Australian and Ripper GC teammate Lucas Herbert finished one under.<\/p>\n<p>Leishman had no such dramas in a superb start to the fourth edition of LIV\u2019s Adelaide tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old peeled off four birdies in a seven-hole stretch at the sandbelt course in Adelaide\u2019s beachside western suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>And Leishman, chasing a second victory on the LIV circuit to follow his triumph in Miami last year, banked two more birdies on successive holes, the 16th and 17th.<\/p>\n<p>With AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Leishman of Ripper GC in the bunker on the 13th.Credit: Getty Images With his next shot, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-474892","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\/474892","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=474892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}