\n\tBUSAN:\u00a0Chile\u2019s Joaquin Niemann outlasted American Talor Gooch in a playoff to win LIV Golf Korea on Sunday, as Bryson DeChambeau fell just short with a final-day charge.<\/p>\n
\n\tNiemann birdied the par-4 first extra hole at Asiad Country Club in Busan after a sublime approach shot to claim his first win of the season on the circuit.<\/p>\n
\n\tNiemann claimed his eighth career victory on the circuit and admitted he was \u201cpretty nervous\u201d going into the playoff.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI think my heart rate is a little bit up,\u201d the 27-year-old said. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s just part of it. I just love this game. I love being in these moments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTwo-time major champion DeChambeau finished one stroke behind Niemann and Gooch after a 5-under-par final round.<\/p>\n
\n\tDeChambeau, last season\u2019s LIV Golf Korea champion, had six birdies and a bogey after starting the day three shots off the pace.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere was times where it felt amazing and times where it just leaked on me a little bit,\u201d the American said. \u201cI gave myself some chances, just wasn\u2019t my day today.\u201d Spain\u2019s Jon Rahm finished eight shots behind the leaders.<\/p>\n
\n\tSaudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund announced last month that it would cease bankrolling LIV after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
\n\tElsewhere, Soo Bin Joo took a four-stroke lead into the final round \u200cof the ShopRite LPGA after another strong showing in Galloway, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
\n\tJoo, who was three strokes back after the opening round, maintained her momentum on a day where the scores were much higher, shooting a 3-under-par 68 to surge out to 8 under for the tournament.<\/p>\n
\n\tAfter an opening round where the best round was 8 under and five players shot 6 under or better, the Bay Course at Seaview Hotel & Golf Club showed its teeth on Saturday with an assist from some heavy wind. The best score of the second round was 3 under and only 20 of the 139 competitors in action shot under par.<\/p>\n
\n\tJoo didn\u2019t get off to a great start with a bogey on the first hole of the day. But that proved to be her only mishap as \u200cshe was \u200cblemish-free the rest of the way, posting four birdies, including on each \u200cof \u2060the final two \u2060holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUSAN:\u00a0Chile\u2019s Joaquin Niemann outlasted American Talor Gooch in a playoff to win LIV Golf Korea on Sunday, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-707093","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\/707093","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=707093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}