LIV Golf heavyweights Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm are relishing their looming final-round title fight in Adelaide.<\/p>\n
US star DeChambeau and former world No.1 Rahm are co-leaders at 19 under, five strokes ahead of the pack after three rounds at the Grange.<\/p>\n
“I hope it’s a banger,” Rahm said of their duel on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“It should, in theory, turn into a two-man race if we play as good as we have this week.<\/p>\n
“In that essence, it will have that feel – Bryson and I going at each other.<\/p>\n
“But I wouldn’t put it past anybody to go out and shoot 10-under tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The drawcard duo hold a massive break from next-best, American Anthony Kim (14 under).<\/p>\n
Australians Cam Smith and Lucas Herbert are tied fourth at 13 under, alongside American Peter Uihlein and Englishman Tyrell Hatton.<\/p>\n
Herbert enjoyed a hot streak of six consecutive birdies – he shot nine in a round punctuated by four bogeys to card a five-under 67.<\/p>\n
And countryman Smith made a big move, firing eight birdies in a bogey-free 64 before a raucous home crowd.<\/p>\n
“A guy shouted out to me on the 17th tee, he said: ‘Fire up’,” Smith said.<\/p>\n
“I’m like: ‘I don’t think I can fire up anymore, if I fired up any more \u00a0my head would just explode’.<\/p>\n
“I was really out there on a mission.”<\/p>\n
Compatriots Marc Leishman (eight under) and Elvis Smylie (six under) have Smith’s all-Aussie Ripper GC placed second in the team standings, four shots behind Rahm’s Legion XIII.<\/p>\n
Rahm followed his nine-under 63 on Friday with bogeys on his initial two holes.<\/p>\n
But he rallied with six birdies and, on the 18th, holed a wedge from 62 metres for eagle.<\/p>\n
“Executed it pretty well,” said the understated Rahm.<\/p>\n
“I’m hoping to hit it close but obviously ended up with the grand prize on that one.”<\/p>\n
Rahm’s playing partner DeChambeau produced an astonishing stretch of nine birdies in 11 holes.<\/p>\n
“We’re two fierce competitors,” DeChambeau said.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be a fun battle tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The American’s 64 – he dropped a shot with bogey on the 17th – followed rounds of 66 and 67 at the sandbelt course in Adelaide’s beachside west.<\/p>\n
DeChambeau and Rahm played with unheralded New Zealander Ben Campbell, a 34-year-old from Queenstown who lost traction with an even-par 72 and is 12 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf heavyweights Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm are relishing their looming final-round title fight in Adelaide. US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-479227","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\/479227","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=479227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}