{"id":478900,"date":"2026-02-14T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T06:09:08","slug":"kiwi-shares-lead-with-golf-greats-at-liv-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/478900\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi shares lead with golf greats at LIV Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealander Ben Campbell is part of a triple tie of the lead midway through the third round at LIV Golf&#8217;s Adelaide tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, former world No.1 Jon Rahm and US star Bryson DeChambeau are 12 under at the Grange on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Englishman Tyrell Hatton, on a hot streak with five birdies in a six-hole stretch, is also 11 under, with Anthony Kim and Brandon Grace at 10 under.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, a 34-year-old from Queenstown, birdied the par-four 4th as he chases the biggest cheque of his career \u2013 Adelaide&#8217;s champion collects $US4 million ($NZA6.6 million).<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Cam Smith was making ground, three birdies in four holes taking him to eight under, equal with compatriot Lucas Herbert.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Australian Marc Leishman, who was co-leader with DeChambeau at six under after the opening round, is seven under.<\/p>\n<p>And Elvis Smylie, who won on his LIV debut last weekend in Saudi Arabia, is four under, with the combined Australian efforts putting Smith&#8217;s Ripper GC four strokes shy of Rahm&#8217;s Legion XIII in the team standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealander Ben Campbell is part of a triple tie of the lead midway through the third round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,243448,755,85],"class_list":["post-478900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478900","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=478900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}