{"id":555192,"date":"2026-03-23T11:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555192\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:36:10","slug":"liv-golf-south-africa-notes-stats-superlatives-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555192\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0LIV Golf\u00a0South Africa notes, stats, superlatives and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUOTES OF THE WEEK\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau on\u00a0LIV Golf South Africa:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve\u00a0just got to say I love everybody. Thank you for\u00a0supporting. South Africa was unbelievable. I mean, got to be the best LIV event\u00a0we&#8217;ve\u00a0ever had.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dean Burmester after the Southern Guards\u2019 runner-up finish:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a phenomenal week, honestly. I could never have imagined a greater week for all four of us to be welcomed like this at home.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0the greatest feeling I think any of us will ever feel. Each of us got to tee off on this first tee here, and each of us walked off\u00a0saying exactly the same thing: We\u00a0couldn&#8217;t\u00a0feel anything. It was the greatest thing\u00a0I&#8217;ve\u00a0ever felt on the golf course.\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0just proud to be South African;\u00a0that&#8217;s\u00a0it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson on\u00a0his return to action:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s\u00a0just fun to be back playing. I really missed it.\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0glad\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0here. I wish I played better the first day, but\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0really having fun.\u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0just fun to be back playing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paul Casey on what it means to play in South Africa:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important\u00a0for\u00a0me. This\u00a0has got\u00a0a special place in my heart. To see this scene today &#8212; actually just all week, the Southern Guards were amazing, Louis and those guys said, this is what we&#8217;re going to do, and then they followed through, and thanks to everybody, the government and the country and the fans to make this what it was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Louis Oosthuizen on bringing LIV Golf to South Africa:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since LIV started it was always a goal of ours to bring it to South Africa, and to finally have it in front of the people, we just want to show our appreciation of them. Being here &#8212; yesterday was phenomenal. Today was great. Each day was awesome. We just wanted to show a bit of appreciation and say thank you and see the\u00a0guys\u00a0next year.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Charles Howell III on playing for a team rather than himself:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I think\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0one of the\u00a0great things\u00a0of\u00a0LIV Golf that we do have a team. I\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0know about the other guys; I feel more pressure playing for others than I do myself.\u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s\u00a0whatever an issue with me, but I\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0want to let them down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUOTES OF THE WEEK\u00a0 Bryson DeChambeau on\u00a0LIV Golf South Africa:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI&#8217;ve\u00a0just got to say I love everybody. Thank&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-555192","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\/555192","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=555192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}