{"id":553032,"date":"2026-03-20T15:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553032\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:09:12","slug":"dechambeau-torque-gc-top-south-africa-leaderboards-through-two-rounds-with-southern-guards-lurking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/553032\/","title":{"rendered":"DeChambeau, Torque GC top South Africa leaderboards through two rounds with Southern Guards lurking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG \u2013 The home favorite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/southern-guards-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Guards GC<\/a> will enter the weekend in position to sweep both trophies in LIV Golf\u2019s first visit to South Africa, but a crowded leaderboard is equally determined to deny their storybook result.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Guards are second on the team leaderboard through two rounds at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/schedule\/south-africa-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV Golf South Africa<\/a>, two shots behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/torque-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torque GC<\/a>. Meanwhile, the club\u2019s best player through 36 holes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/branden-grace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Branden Grace<\/a>, is tied for second individually, two shots behind leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/bryson-dechambeau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson DeChambeau<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/watch\/where-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Where to Watch<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/leaderboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leaderboard<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau, at 14 under after his 6-under 65 Friday, and Grace, who shot 66 to move to 12 under, will play in the final group Saturday for the second consecutive day along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/fireballs-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fireballs GC<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/david-puig\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Puig<\/a> (-12).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/crushers-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crushers GC<\/a> captain opened his round by holing his second shot from at the par-4 1st for eagle, then followed with a 31-foot birdie putt at the second. He made four birdies along with a bogey in his next nine holes before suffering a double bogey at the par-4 12th that gave his chasers a sense of relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He birdied two of his final three holes to take the solo lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG \u2013 The home favorite Southern Guards GC will enter the weekend in position to sweep both trophies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-553032","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\/553032","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=553032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}