{"id":522594,"date":"2026-03-06T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522594\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:51:17","slug":"thats-something-you-dont-see-everyday-liv-golf-pro-in-shocking-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522594\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;That&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t see everyday&#8221; &#8211; LIV Golf pro in shocking blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PGA Tour member Sebastian Munoz had a moment to forget during the first round of LIV Golf Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Colombian started the third event of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"a98bdd27-b225-4fc9-b7d2-bbff98678a53\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"LIV Golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV<\/a>&#8216;s 2026 season well and, through five holes, was in a share of the lead with defending champion Sergio Garcia, Jason Kokrak and Dean Burmester.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He set up a great opportunity to get to six-under at the par-four 16th but ended up trudging off the green with an ugly five on his card after whiffing from less than an inch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was an attempt to hit it and he bounced over it,&#8221; said lead analyst David Feherty on the broadcast. &#8220;That&#8217; something you don&#8217;t see every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Munoz knew exactly what he did and notified the scorer immediately.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Co-commentator Jerry Foltz added: &#8220;That is the forward push of the club with the attempt of advancing the ball, the definition of a stroke and he has owned up to it already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Munoz dropped another stroke at the 17th but closed with a birdie to sign for an opening 65.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the moment here: Show X Embedded Content<\/p>\n<p>Loading this video will expose you to potential cookies and tracking by the provider<\/p>\n<p>Burmester, Ortiz hit the frontLIV Golf Hong Kong leaderboard: R2<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Position<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Player<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Total<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Dean Burmester<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T1<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Carlos Ortiz<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-14<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">3<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Thomas Detry<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-13<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">4<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Jon Rahm<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-12<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Matthew Wolff<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-11<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">David Puig<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-11<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T5<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Richard Bland<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-11<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T8<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Harold Varner III<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T8<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Graeme McDowell<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Scott Vincent<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-9<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Anirban Lahiri<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-9<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Lucas Herbert<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-9<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">T10<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Lee Westwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">-9<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned Burmester and Carlos Ortiz are tied for the lead after 36 holes in Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The duo are on 14-under, one ahead of new recruit Thomas Detry and two clear of reigning individual champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/jon-rahm\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-uuid=\"c782252c-246d-46d2-9cef-a1b05de0c85b\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\" title=\"Jon Rahm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Rahm<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Wolff, David Puig, Richard Bland, Harold Varner III and Graeme McDowell are also inside the top-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Open champion McDowell carded an ace on day two and the second of the week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rahm is searching for his first win since August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to do a little bit better ball-striking wise,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;Yesterday was not great.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today it was better but not as comfortable as I would like to be. Coming down the stretch in pressure situations I&#8217;m going to need to play a little bit better than that or at least swing a little bit better than I have so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Clearly I&#8217;m doing just good enough to be in the hunt and hopefully get a little bit better every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former PGA Tour member Sebastian Munoz had a moment to forget during the first round of LIV Golf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,14239,85],"class_list":["post-522594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522594","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=522594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}