{"id":700069,"date":"2026-05-28T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700069\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:18:13","slug":"defending-champion-dechambeau-grabs-share-of-opening-round-lead-at-liv-golf-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700069\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion DeChambeau grabs share of opening-round lead at LIV Golf Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ae1bd72c-eeb8-4f7e-96a3-925383d51805.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1386; width: 100%\" alt=\"Bryson DeChambeau of the United States hits a tee shot during the first round of LIV Golf Korea at Asiad Country Club in the southeastern city of Busan, Thursday. Reuters-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau of the United States hits a tee shot during the first round of LIV Golf Korea at Asiad Country Club in the southeastern city of Busan, Thursday. Reuters-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Riding an early birdie barrage, defending champion Bryson DeChambeau took a share of the opening-round lead at LIV Golf Korea on Thursday in the southeastern city of Busan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">DeChambeau made seven birdies, including five on the front nine, for a round of five-under 65 at the par-70 Asiad Country Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">DeChambeau picked up a couple more birdies on the back nine but they were negated by two bogeys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">He is tied atop the leaderboard with two other players, Charles Howell III and Scott Vincent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re strategic and you execute good shots, you can make some birdies,&#8221; DeChambeau said. &#8220;Your ball striking has to be premier. You can&#8217;t fake it around here and then also on the greens, you&#8217;ve got to make sure you&#8217;re rolling up pure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">English veteran Ian Poulter, playing on a torn meniscus in his knee, is in a three-way tie for fourth at four-under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Two South Korean players, Song Young-han and Mun Do-yeob, were in a 12-way tie for 11th at two-under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The two are members of Korean Golf Club, and Mun is playing at his first LIV Golf tournament after replacing Danny Lee earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Two other Korean Golf Club players, captain An Byeong-hun and Kim Min-kyu, shot an even par and one-over, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">LIV Golf also features a team competition, where the combined scores of the four members on each of the 13 teams determine the standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Led by DeChambeau and Howell III, Crushers Golf Club (GC) is leading the team leaderboard at 10-under. OKGC is next at seven-under, and Korean Golf Club is tied for fifth at three-under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The individual champion will take home $4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The victorious team will bag $3 million, to be shared among its four members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">DeChambeau and Howell III are no strangers to duking it out for the individual title, which ultimately helps Crushers GC. They will to navigate those situations the best they can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Well, team-wise it&#8217;s wonderful. Individual-wise, it&#8217;s terrible,&#8221; Howell III quipped when asked about being tied with DeChambeau for the lead. &#8220;Obviously, Bryson, in more weeks than not, plays extremely well. If my name is near his, I&#8217;m usually doing something pretty good. He&#8217;s great to play with. He&#8217;s a wonderful captain. He motivates all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryson DeChambeau of the United States hits a tee shot during the first round of LIV Golf Korea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-700069","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\/700069","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=700069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}