{"id":27658,"date":"2025-07-27T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27658\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T10:39:08","slug":"liv-golf-uk-2025-final-round-leaderboard-updates-as-joaquin-niemann-closes-in-on-record-seventh-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27658\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf UK 2025: Final Round Leaderboard updates as Joaquin Niemann closes in on record seventh win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joaquin Niemann takes a commanding six-shot lead into today&#8217;s final round of LIV Golf UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/joaquin-niemann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Niemann<\/a>, 26, fired a stunning 8-under 63 on Saturday to put one hand on the trophy with 18 holes to play at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/courses\/uk-and-ireland\/jcb-golf-country-club-course-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JCB Golf &amp; Country Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilean starts the final round at 14-under par and six shots ahead of two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann is already a record six-time winner on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV Golf<\/a> and he now looks assured of making it seven wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Torque GC captain is also rapidly closing in on a first LIV Golf Individual Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann&#8217;s team lead by three shots over Jon Rahm&#8217;s defending champions Legion XIII in the LIV Golf UK team event.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-tournament favourites Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton are well out of contention starting the final round.<\/p>\n<p>DeChambeau starts Sunday nine shots off the pace, with Rahm and Hatton both 10 back.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how we stand before the final round:<\/p>\n<p>The final round of LIV Golf UK gets underway a 1.05pm local time.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann incredibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\/joaquin-niemann-dumps-caddie-and-coach-huge-shake-ahead-liv-golf-uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sacked both his caddie and coach<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>That was after he missed his second straight cut in the majors at The Open at Royal Portrush.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Niemann&#8217;s incredible performances on LIV Golf, he has only registered one top-10 finish in 26 major appearances.<\/p>\n<p>That has frustrated him a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Niemann spoke openly about a lack of confidence after The Open and his decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\/joaquin-niemann-reveals-why-he-fired-both-his-caddie-and-coach-liv-golf-uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire his caddie and coach<\/a> when speaking to reporters after the second round of LIV Golf UK.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got his good friend Diego Salinas on the bag this week having previously worked with Gary Matthews since the 2020 US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for live updates from the final round of LIV Golf UK&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joaquin Niemann takes a commanding six-shot lead into today&#8217;s final round of LIV Golf UK. Niemann, 26, fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-27658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}