\n\tBUSAN:\u00a0Chile\u2019s Joaquin Niemann carded a 4-under 66 in \u200cthe third round on Saturday to catch Talor Gooch for the lead at the LIV Golf Korea tournament.<\/p>\n
\n\tNiemann posted six birdies and two bogeys to move to 9-under at Asiad Country Club in Busan, South Korea. Second-round leader Gooch\u2019s round of 69 featured 17 pars and a lone birdie at the par-5 15th hole.<\/p>\n
\n\tZimbabwe\u2019s Scott Vincent is one shot behind the leaders in solo third place after round of 67 with four birdies and a bogey. Charles Howell III and Australia\u2019s Cameron Smith are tied for fourth at 7-under after both shooting 68.<\/p>\n
\n\tThree golfers are \u200clurking three \u200cshots back at 6-under, including Dustin Johnson after delivering \u200cSaturday\u2019s low round with a bogey-free 64. He is tied with New Zealand\u2019s Ben Campbell (66 on Saturday) and defending champion Bryson DeChambeau (71), whose eventful day included four bogeys and three birdies.<\/p>\n
\n\tDeChambeau\u2019s Crushers GC sit atop the team standings at 16-under, one shot ahead of Gooch\u2019s OKGC and four up on Smith\u2019s Ripper GC.<\/p>\n
\n\tEight of the top-10 golfers on the leaderboard have won at least one LIV Golf title. Niemann holds the \u200ctour record with seven titles, including \u200cfive in 2025, but is looking for his first of the season.<\/p>\n
\n\tNiemann rolled in \u200cthree long birdie puts on Saturday, including a breaking 34-footer at \u200cthe par-14 14th hole.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cPutter did behave a lot better today than the first two days, so pretty happy about that,\u201d Niemann said. \u201cIt did love me a lot. I did love it a lot, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tGooch, who has four \u200cLIV Golf wins, began his round with 14 consecutive pars.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cYou\u2019ve got to stay patient and just wait for your time and hope that it comes, and it unfortunately didn\u2019t come much today,\u201d Gooch said. \u201cBut that\u2019s why we stay patient. Maybe tomorrow it\u2019ll come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThis will be Gooch\u2019s 16th time playing in the final group at an LIV Golf event and the 14th time for Niemann. The last time they were both in the final group was at LIV Golf Boston in 2022, where Johnson prevailed.<\/p>\n
\n\tJoining them in the last group is Vincent, who is filling in for HyFlyers GC captain Phil Mickelson and looking for his first LIV Golf title.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWinning out here is not easy,\u201d Vincent said. \u201cI think just big picture-wise, just putting myself in this position is just great for me, try and get better and develop as a player.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUSAN:\u00a0Chile\u2019s Joaquin Niemann carded a 4-under 66 in \u200cthe third round on Saturday to catch Talor Gooch for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-705218","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\/705218","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=705218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}