{"id":93044,"date":"2025-08-24T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93044\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T20:10:10","slug":"rahms-legion-xiii-dechambeaus-crushers-advance-to-liv-golfs-team-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93044\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII, DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers advance to LIV Golf\u2019s team final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[PICTURE: LIV Golf]<\/p>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau went out of his way to avoid playing Brooks Koepka Saturday in the semifinals of the LIV Golf Team Championship, something Koepka was not pleased with, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know what he was afraid of.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>OTHER NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/man-dies-by-eletrocution-at-yale-golf-course-gil-hanse-renovation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man dies by electrocution at closed Yale University Golf Course<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It ended up working out well for DeChambeau.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday in the US at the Cardinal at Saint John\u2019s in Michigan, he made birdie on the final hole against Talor Gooch to win his singles match and help propel his Crushers squad into Sunday\u2019s team finale with Jon Rahm\u2019s Legion XIII and Louis Oosthuizen\u2019s Stinger team.<\/p>\n<p>Each of those three teams won their respective matches 2-1 in the mixed-team format that had two singles matches and one foursomes contest.<\/p>\n<p>For Legion XIII against Phil Mickelson\u2019s HyFlyers, Rahm topped Mickelson in singles while Tom McKibbin and Caleb Surratt beat Andy Ogletree and Brendan Steele in foursomes. Tyrrell Hatton lost to Cameron Tringale in the other singles match.<\/p>\n<p>Although Koepka ended up beating Anirban Lahiri for his Smash team, DeChambeau\u2019s win over Gooch and the foursomes victory\u2014Paul Casey and Charles Howell beat Jason Kokrak and Graeme McDowell\u2014were enough for the Crushers to move to the final round.<\/p>\n<p>Legion XIII and the Crushers have been the best two teams all season with Rahm\u2019s team winning four team titles and DeChambeau\u2019s team winning three times. The Stinger team came into this event ranked eighth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/winless-in-2025-jon-rahm-still-prevails-in-liv-golf-s-season-lo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rahm\u00a0won the individual title\u00a0last week in Indianapolis over Joaquin Niemann despite not winning once tournament all season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, matchplay is over. The three teams will play stroke play in the final round for the title with all four scores counting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think these teams up here are incredible teams, incredible golfers, and it\u2019s going to be a tough test tomorrow because it\u2019s scoring conditions out there for sure,\u201d DeChambeau said. \u201cIt\u2019s about who makes the most putts and who wedges it close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Said Rahm: \u201cWhen it comes to tomorrow, looking forward to it. Any team here is strong. Any team has a chance. Hopefully we can keep doing what we\u2019ve done all year and have a good showing tomorrow and get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[PICTURE: LIV Golf] Bryson DeChambeau went out of his way to avoid playing Brooks Koepka Saturday in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-93044","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\/93044","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=93044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}