Max Kennedy\u2019s LIV Golf dream evaporated with a closing 76 at LIV Golf Promotions in Florida.<\/p>\n
The Royal Dublin man (24) went into the second round of the 36-hole playoff for three LIV Golf wildcards just three shots outside the top three.<\/p>\n
At one under par, he was tied for sixth in the 22-man field and inside the top 10 who would be awarded\u00a0exemptions\u00a0for the Asian Tour\u2019s International Series. <\/p>\n
But his hopes of winning a lucrative spot in the LIV Golf League were dashed early when he made a triple-bogey seven at\u00a0the third at Black Diamond Ranch, then\u00a0bogeyed\u00a0the fifth and eighth to slip near the back of the field on four over.<\/p>\n
While he birdied the par-five ninth to turn in 39, he dropped shots at the 10th and 11th to kiss goodbye to his chances of salvaging a top 10 finish and International Series status.<\/p>\n
In the end, the HotelPlanner Tour regular, who made just two bogeys over the first three days, bogeyed the 15th but birdied the par five 16th to shoot a six-over 76 and finish 21st ($17,500) in the 22-man field on five over.<\/p>\n
At the business end of affairs, Canada\u2019s Richard T. Lee, Sweden\u2019s Bjorn Hellgren and American veteran Anthony Kim claimed the three wildcards.<\/p>\n
Lee added a 65 to his Saturday 64 to win the top wild-card on 11 under par, five strokes clear of Hellgren, who birdied four of his last six holes for a best of the day 64.<\/p>\n
Former US Ryder Cup player Kim (40), who returned from 13 years out of the game to play as a LIV Golf wildcard last season before being relegated, shot 69 to win the third wildcard on five under.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it feels great,\u201d Kim said. \u201cI’m not here to prove everybody wrong. I’m here to prove myself right.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve worked so hard, and this little girl right here is one of the reasons why. Obviously, my wife has been so supportive.”<\/p>\n
He had to make an eight-footer on the last in Friday\u2019s round to qualify for the 36-hole playoff on the mark, and believes winning back his LIV Golf credentials will give him confidence for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, a lot of confidence because I definitely didn’t have it today,\u201d he added. \u201cI didn’t feel great with my swing. I putted okay, but didn’t make a ton.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like my game is trending in the right direction, that my bad rounds, I can still hang in there and be around par.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is just the first step, but I’m glad I earned my spot so everybody could quit talking s**t, and I’ll be back soo,n and I’ll be winning golf tournaments soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucas Bjerregaard, Jeunghun Wang, Sarit Suwannarut, Kieran Vincent (three-under); Oliver Bekker, Jazz Janewattananond, Takanori Konishi, Matt Jones, Cory Crawford and Christopher Wood (two-under) completed the top 10 and ties who won International Series exemptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Kennedy\u2019s LIV Golf dream evaporated with a closing 76 at LIV Golf Promotions in Florida. The Royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-404258","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\/404258","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=404258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}