{"id":401959,"date":"2026-01-11T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401959\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:39:09","slug":"flawless-lee-leads-liv-golf-promotions-charge-as-battle-for-league-spots-nears-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401959\/","title":{"rendered":"Flawless Lee leads LIV Golf Promotions charge as battle for league spots nears end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Asian Tour\u2019s Richard T Lee will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the LIV Golf Promotions tournament on Sunday, well placed to take one of the three spots up for grabs for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee shot a flawless six-under-par 64 at Black Diamond Ranch in Florida, although the likes of Anthony Kim and Jazz Janewattananond are hot on his heels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kieran Vincent and Matt Jones both have some work to do further down the leaderboard, with the pair among a group of five players tied for 11th on even-par.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For Lee, who shot 64 and 66 in the first two rounds, after which scores reset, said he was going to keep the same approach as he had all week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony Kim is among those chasing a return to LIV Golf. Photo: LIV Golf\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3d31d1ea-a9ee-4398-a92a-b78a2b8a28f9_d5f7fb3f.jpg\" title=\"Anthony Kim is among those chasing a return to LIV Golf. Photo: LIV Golf\"\/>Anthony Kim is among those chasing a return to LIV Golf. Photo: LIV Golf<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cDefinitely the key is to not make mistakes out there and try to make as many birdies as you can,\u201d the Canadian said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have any eagles like yesterday, but I\u2019ll take six birdies and no bogeys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Asian Tour\u2019s Richard T Lee will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the LIV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[51850,85521,120720,49,48,6388,622,169473,169472,169474,138600,144285,168097,5685,82,30128],"class_list":["post-401959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-anthony-kim","tag-asian-tour","tag-black-diamond-ranch","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-florida","tag-golf","tag-jazz-janewattananond","tag-kieran-vincent","tag-liv-golf-promotions-tournament","tag-matt-jones","tag-oliver-bekker","tag-richard-t-lee","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-sunday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959","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=401959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}