{"id":557422,"date":"2026-03-22T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557422\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:31:08","slug":"dechambeau-beats-rahm-in-playoff-crushers-gc-wins-team-title-at-liv-golf-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/557422\/","title":{"rendered":"DeChambeau beats Rahm in playoff; Crushers GC wins\u00a0team title at LIV Golf South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the final putt dropped, DeChambeau, who shot a 5-under 66, was overcome with emotion, fully absorbing the magnitude of the moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve just got to say I love everybody,\u201d DeChambeau said with tears in his eyes. \u201cThank you for supporting. South Africa was unbelievable. I mean, got to be the best LIV event we&#8217;ve ever had.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although Rahm fell just short of his second victory in three weeks, his 8-under 63 to force a playoff was tied for the round of the day and proof of his impeccable form heading into major championship season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the team leaderboard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/southern-guards-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Guards GC<\/a> was unable to convert a nine-shot front-nine lead into a victory on home soil. DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers GC rallied to edge out the South African squad by one shot after shooting a combined 21 under on the day. The Crushers were led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/anirban-lahiri\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anirban Lahiri<\/a>, who fired a clutch 8-under 63, which was tied with Rahm for the low round of the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/paul-casey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Casey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/charles-howell-iii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Howell III<\/a> each shot 4-under 67s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The win for the Crushers was their ninth regular season victory, giving them the edge over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/legion-xiii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legion XIII<\/a> as the winningest team in LIV Golf history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the final putt dropped, DeChambeau, who shot a 5-under 66, was overcome with emotion, fully absorbing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-557422","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\/557422","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=557422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}