{"id":485073,"date":"2026-02-17T05:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485073\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:17:09","slug":"liv-golf-adelaide-notes-stats-superlatives-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485073\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Adelaide notes, stats, superlatives and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

VETERAN RESURGENCE<\/p>\n

Graeme McDowell: McDowell plotted his way around the golf course with veteran savvy, posting a T14 finishes with rounds of 68-72-67-68. He ranked 8th for the week in Strokes Gained: Approach (+4.92).\u00a0<\/p>\n

YOUNG GUN SPOTLIGHT<\/p>\n

Caleb Surratt:\u00a0After a slow start,\u00a0Surratt finished T17 after posting rounds of 70-73-64-69. While Rahm and Tom McKibbin struggled on Sunday, the 21-year-old helped Legion XIII<\/a> remain on the podium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WHO’S TRENDING<\/p>\n

Lucas Herbert: It was a great week for Herbert, who was the best finisher in the Ripper team victory. After a sluggish 71 in Round 1, the Aussie posted rounds of 65-67-69 over the next three days to lead the team. He now has back-to-back top-10 finishes to start his 2026 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sebasti\u00e1n Mu\u00f1oz: Mu\u00f1oz has become one of the most consistent players on LIV Golf. After an eighth-place finish in Riyadh, the Colombian posted four rounds in the 60s to match last week\u2019s finish with a T8.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dustin Johnson: Johnson has shown flashes of his high ceiling in each of the first two weeks of the season. However, he\u2019s had one poor round in Riyadh and Adelaide to keep him from contending over the weekend. Once Johnson can eliminate a few big numbers from the scorecard, he\u2019ll be in the mix on Sunday.<\/p>\n

4Aces GC:\u00a0After losing Patrick Reed, the 4Aces have now began the season by posting back-to-back podium finishes in Riyadh and Adelaide. With a resurgent Kim to go along with a strong new addition in Thomas Detry<\/a>, the Aces look as dangerous as they have in years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

QUOTES OF THE WEEK\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Kim on his daughter seeing his historic victory:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, when Bella was born, Emily and my life changed. But to be able to share this moment, even though Bella won’t understand it, one day she will, and for her to be able to run on the green and see her dad isn’t a loser was one of the most special moments of my life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthony Kim on beating Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When I was in my 20s, I was never scared to play anybody. I’m not scared to play anybody now. I know this is just one golf tournament, but I believe in myself. That will never change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marc Leishman on Kim\u2019s performance:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know, it’s pretty touching, actually, how good a story this is. I hope that people realize how it’s a fairy tale, it really is. Not just golf but life. You see his wife and his daughter run out on the green, and that’s as good as it gets. I couldn’t be happier for AK.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucas Herbert on LIV Golf Adelaide 2026 setting a new attendance record for a professional golf event in Australia:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI see on social media all the time that LIV has no fans, so it’s pretty nice to see that a few of them turned out this week, and you can see why. It’s clearly the best event. It’s been voted the best event in the world, and you can absolutely see why.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s so many people out here. It’s such a great atmosphere. There’s so many kids out here, as well. I feel like between every green and tee, I’m high fiving kids the whole way\u00a0down, which\u00a0that’s\u00a0what we did all this far.\u00a0That’s\u00a0what we really wanted to be here to make an impact for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VETERAN RESURGENCE Graeme McDowell: McDowell plotted his way around the golf course with veteran savvy, posting a T14…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-485073","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\/485073","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=485073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}