4Aces GC seized control of the Team Championship race at LIV Golf Indianapolis 2026, catching fire in Rd. 2 to move to 31-under through two rounds and take a five-shot lead over Torque GC, while Richard T. Lee claimed the solo individual lead at The Club at Chatham Hills.<\/p>\n
Thomas Detry and Dustin Johnson each posted matching totals of 10-under at the halfway stage to lead the way for 4Aces, with Detry backing up his Rd. 1 66 with a 6-under 64 and Johnson following his 64 with a 4-under 66. Thomas Pieters added a 5-under 65 to move to 9-under for the tournament, giving the team three players inside the top five individually.<\/p>\n
Detry and Pieters, who have played alongside each other since their junior golf days, were grouped together in Rd. 2 and were able to build some momentum while playing in the same group.<\/p>\n
“We generally feed off each other,” Detry said. “I felt like he was pretty much ahead the whole day, so I was sort of catching up on him and was just trying to make birdies.”<\/p>\n
Johnson has been one of the most efficient ball-strikers in the field through two rounds, ranking first in the field in Strokes Gained: Approach (+4.49) and fifth in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (+1.76). He’s chasing what would be a fourth LIV Golf win in the United States, the most of any player in the league.<\/p>\n
Torque GC sits second in the Team Championship at 26-under, powered by Abraham Ancer’s 5-under 65. Ancer strung together birdies on holes 11 through 16 before a double bogey, and he now sits two back of the individual lead.<\/p>\n
“Everything I do out on the golf course, I try just to stay in the moment, try to just focus on the shot that I have in front of me,” Ancer said. “It’s Friday; we’re just halfway there. I feel really good about where my game is at.”<\/p>\n
Ancer added that the team is hungry to close out the season with a title, calling the group “a bit frustrated” with its results so far in 2026 but confident it can still make a run at the Team Championship in the final regular-season event.<\/p>\n
HyFlyers GC and Ripper GC are tied for third in the team standings at 25-under. HyFlyers got a career-best round from Michael La Sasso, who fired a 10-under 60 to jump into a share of fifth individually at 9-under. The former NCAA champion has quietly worked his way back into form after a challenging season without Phil Mickelson in the HyFlyers lineup.<\/p>\n
Individually, Richard T. Lee leads at 11-under after backing up his opening 63 with a 4-under 66. Detry, Johnson and Rd. 1 leader Laurie Canter are tied for second at 10-under, with Canter’s 68 on Friday coming after his career-low 62 to open the tournament.<\/p>\n
A crowded group at 9-under 131 fills out the rest of the top 10, including Pieters, Ancer, La Sasso, Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann, Matthew Wolff, Lee Westwood and Ripper GC Captain Cameron Smith.<\/p>\n
Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau sits T15 at 7-under, still well within striking distance as the tournament turns to the weekend with the Indianapolis title, the Team Championship and the final two spots on the season-long Individual Championship podium all still up for grabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4Aces GC seized control of the Team Championship race at LIV Golf Indianapolis 2026, catching fire in Rd.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-866675","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\/866675","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=866675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}