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David Puig surged to victory at the Australian PGA Championship on Sunday(Image: Chris Hyde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nFor a second week in succession, a young LIV Golf talent has shown what they are made of and emerged through a star-studded field for a big-time win, this time at the Australian PGA ChampionshipDavid Puig surged to victory at the Australian PGA Championship on Sunday(Image: Chris Hyde\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
LIV Golf young gun David Puig became the first Spaniard since the great Seve Ballesteros to get his hands on he coveted Australian PGA Championship trophy, outclassing a star-studded field in Brisbane on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old claimed his third career win, edging out Ding Wenyi by two shots at Royal Queensland to complete an excellent week for the Sergio Garcia protege. <\/a>The Fireballs talent, who made just two bogeys all week, carded a bogey-free five-under-par 66 on Sunday to reach 18-under-par for the tournament and claim his first DP World Tour victory.<\/p>\n Puig’s win in Australia, the first by a Spaniard since five-time major champion Ballesteros in 1981, made it back-to-back victories for top talents on LIV Golf, <\/a>following up Fireballs teammate Josele Ballester’s breakthrough victory at the Saudi International a week ago.<\/a><\/p>\n READ MORE: Donald Trump posts video of himself golfing after latest brag prompted ‘toddler’ comparison<\/a>READ MORE: Who is Nelly Korda’s fianc\u00e9? Golf star engaged to mystery man after split from pro athlete<\/a><\/p>\n Puig was playing his first tournament as a full member of the DP World Tour and put on a glittering display of his talents, outplaying a field that included 2013 Masters champion Adam Scott and rising PGA Tour star Min Woo Lee.<\/p>\n A $1.6 million purse was up for grabs on Australia’s Gold Coast, and Puig banked the top prize of $278,00, supplementing the $8.5 million he earned on LIV in 2025. It is Puig’s first victory of the season, and he was relieved to get over the line.<\/p>\n “It feels amazing. I’ve really had a lot of close calls in a few events throughout this year and last year and I kind of wasn’t able to pull it through,” he said.<\/p>\n “It feels unbelievable, especially to win here in Australia, and I played some awesome golf, so I’m really excited and happy. I was definitely nervous, but I think I kept my composure pretty well and obviously that start [to the final round] helped a lot,”<\/p>\n Puig, who started the final round in a three-way tie for the lead with Ricardo Gouveia and Anthony Quayle, signaled his intent early on Sunday, carding three birdies in his opening four holes to race into the lead.<\/p>\n He picked up another shot at the par-three eighth to put himself in a commanding position at the turn, and he coasted to victory with a one-under-par back nine in a display of impressive poise under pressure.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Cam Smith’s former PGA Tour allies make feelings very clear on slide since LIV Golf move<\/a>READ MORE: Xander Schauffele handed $0 check after nightmare outing in The Skins Game<\/a><\/p>\n Home favorite and fellow LIV Golf member Marc Leishman finished three shots off the pace in a tie for third at 15-under par, one shot ahead of popular Aussie talent Lee, who had to settle for a tie for fifth on home soil.<\/p>\n Former world No. 1 Scott, one of Australia’s all-time greats, could not keep pace with the low scoring of Puig. He could only muster a two-under-par 69 and finished in seventh place, five shots adrift of the winner.<\/p>\n A blockbuster two weeks of golf Down Under continues on Thursday, with a stacked field headlined by world No. 2 Rory McIlroy set to battle for Australian Open glory and the prestigious Stonehaven Cup at Royal Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a second week in succession, a young LIV Golf talent has shown what they are made of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[140890,49,48,622,6674,3747,5280,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-316377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-adam-scott-golfer","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-liv-golf","13":"tag-pga-tour","14":"tag-sergio-garcia","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316377","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=316377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}