{"id":478438,"date":"2026-02-14T00:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478438\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:50:12","slug":"the-big-day-spanish-great-on-liv-golf-challenge-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478438\/","title":{"rendered":"“The big day”: Spanish great on LIV Golf challenge – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Spanish great is bracing for a boisterous challenge in protecting his halfway lead at The Grange.<\/p>\n

Rahm (13 under) holds a one-shot margin from unfancied New Zealander Ben Campbell entering Saturday’s third round.<\/p>\n

And the former world No.1 is forecasting things are about to get hectic at the sandbelt course in Adelaide’s west.<\/p>\n

“Tomorrow, I’m assuming, will be the big day, being a Saturday,” he said after a stellar nine-under 63 in the second round.<\/p>\n

“A little bit of a later tee-off time; it’s easier for the crowd to be here on time.<\/p>\n

“It’s also more time to drink. It will be a little bit louder, a little hotter too … it’s going to be a really fun atmosphere.”<\/p>\n

Rahm, Campbell and 2023 Adelaide champion Talor Gooch (nine-under) all shot nine under on Friday.<\/p>\n

And drawcard Bryson DeChambeau – 11-under after following his opening 66 with a 67 – also predicted an “awesome” atmosphere.<\/p>\n

“People are going to be giving me banter, good and bad, and I love it,” DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n

“This is why I came out to LIV Golf and this [Adelaide] is our star.<\/p>\n


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The stars are here for LIV Adelaide 2026. Check out every player teeing off at The Grange, grouped by starting hole for Saturday’s third round. <\/p>\n


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“I will give myself a shot this weekend and put some pressure on Jon and hopefully make him feel some pressure coming down the stretch.<\/p>\n

“It is going to be a good battle, no matter what.”<\/p>\n

Lucas Herbert (eight-under) is the best-placed Australian, with Marc Leishman (six-under), Cam Smith (five-under) and Elvis Smylie (three-under) having much work to do in their quest to be the first individual local LIV winner in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

The Australian quartet’s Ripper GC is one shot behind the team title leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Spanish great is bracing for a boisterous challenge in protecting his halfway lead at The Grange. Rahm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-478438","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\/478438","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=478438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}