{"id":75614,"date":"2025-08-17T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75614\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:44:10","slug":"david-feherty-makes-stunning-tiger-woods-claim-after-sebastian-munoz-shoots-59-on-liv-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75614\/","title":{"rendered":"David Feherty makes stunning Tiger Woods claim after Sebastian Munoz shoots 59 on LIV Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned commentator and analyst David Feherty has stunned golf fans on social media with his latest claim involving Tiger Woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feherty, 67, made his declaration involving the 15-time major champion during the live broadcast of LIV Golf Indianapolis at The Club at Chatham Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s first round saw Torque GC&#8217;s Sebastian Munoz shoot a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\/liv-golf-indianapolis-round-1-leaderboard-sebastian-munoz-shoots-first-ever-59-double\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stunning 12-under 59<\/a> to open up a three-shot lead over a resurgent Dustin Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Munoz became the first player in the history of the professional game to record a 59 with a double-bogey on the card.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian also became the third player in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/tour\/liv-golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIV Golf<\/a> history to shoot a sub-60 round joining his Torque GC captain Joaquin Niemann, who shot 59 at 2024 LIV Golf Mayakoba, and Bryson DeChambeau who memorably shot a 58 at 2023 LIV Golf Greenbrier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Munoz is no stranger to a low round as he also fired a pair of 60s during the 2021\/22 PGA Tour season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LIV Golf Indianapolis marks the final regular event of the season where Niemann is closing in on a first Individual Championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Feherty stuns fans with Tiger Woods claim\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the live broadcast, Feherty, who left NBC Sports to join LIV Golf for a huge fee in 2022, shocked plenty of fans when admitting Munoz&#8217;s round of 59 trumped anything he has ever seen before on the ground, even having followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/tiger-woods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a> in his prime on the PGA Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not often I&#8217;m lost for words,&#8221; said Feherty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spent the last 20 years of my broadcasting career on the grounds with Tiger Woods \u2013 and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A number of golf fans rushed to social media to take aim at Feherty&#8217;s comment, especially given it was a birdie-fest first round where 37 out of 54 players all broke par.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a pretty insane comment from David Feherty,&#8221; wrote one fan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another commented: &#8220;Feherty just compared Munoz to Tiger. Call the police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tiger won a Masters by 12 and a US Open by 15, what Munoz is doing is crazy good but there&#8217;s no need for hyperbole,&#8221; tweeted one fan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/leaderboard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VIEW LIVE SCORES HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feherty on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVGolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#LIVGolf<\/a> Indianapolis broadcast regarding Mu\u00f1oz:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not often I&#8217;m lost for words. I&#8217;ve spent the last 20 years of my broadcasting career on the grounds with Tiger Woods \u2013 and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1oz has birdied 17 of his last 18 holes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike McAllister (@thegolfeditor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegolfeditor\/status\/1956751857897840753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Newsletter<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renowned commentator and analyst David Feherty has stunned golf fans on social media with his latest claim involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-75614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75614","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=75614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}