LEADERBOARD<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cTo be honest, I thought no matter how today went, I’m still going to be home tonight, and I’ll walk in to a crying newborn, and I’ll be doing nappies tonight,\u201d Hatton said. \u201cThat was going to happen regardless. I’m really excited to get home to Emily and our little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rahm gave him every reason to look over his shoulder. The Legion XIII captain produced the round of the day \u2014 a 4-under 67\u2014 to finish at 9 under and take sole possession of second place. It was exactly the kind of Sunday charge the home crowd had hoped to see, and for a stretch it looked as though the gap might close entirely.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I had a fantastic week myself, and very happy for Tyrrell to have just become a father just over two weeks ago and having his little girl and being a proud girl dad,\u201d Rahm said. \u201cAs good as he is, if someone is going to beat me, there’s very few people I’ll be happy for, and he’s one of them. It was very well earned and happy that he on and help the team as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0two Legion XIII teammates finishing 1-2 on the leaderboard was enough to deliver the team title as well, with Legion XIII finishing 7 under for the tournament to claim their second consecutive team victory at Valderrama. It was a dominant week for the team on both fronts, and a result that moves them to second in the team standings.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeels really good, Rahm added. \u201cObviously this type of golf course suits us. Ball-striking is all of our strengths, and on a golf course like this one, it was exactly what was demanded of you. Clearly, we did well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abraham Ancer was the week’s quiet achiever, closing with a 3-under 68 to finish alone in third at 8-under \u2014 the best result of his LIV Golf season.<\/p>\n
Sergio Garcia gave everything he had. The Fireballs GC captain carded a closing 70 to finish fourth at 7 under, never quite able to bridge the gap to Hatton. Garcia’s week at his beloved Valderrama was, in many ways, a perfect encapsulation of what he means to this place. He was consistent and composed throughout. Garcia now has 18 top-10 finishes from his 19 professional starts at this venue \u2014 a record of consistency at a single course that is almost without parallel in the sport.<\/p>\n
The Open Championship qualifying story had a late twist. Thomas Detry, who had been in the driver’s seat for much of the week, stumbled to a closing 74 to fall back to T5 at 5 under. It was enough to hand Joaquin Niemann the reprieve he needed. The Torque GC captain finished the week at 3 over but\u00a0was able to\u00a0hold on to the LIV Golf Open Championship exemption as he sits third in the standings behind Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOTOGRANDE, Spain \u2013 Tyrrell Hatton came to Valderrama a new father and leaves it a champion. The Englishman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-721507","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\/721507","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=721507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}