{"id":93030,"date":"2025-08-24T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93030\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:11:08","slug":"three-teams-set-for-finals-showdown-at-liv-golf-michigan-team-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93030\/","title":{"rendered":"Three teams set for Finals showdown at LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STINGER GC<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/stinger-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stinger GC<\/a> is the dark horse after upsetting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/ripper-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ripper GC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/torque-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torque GC<\/a> in match play. The all-South African team will be incredibly dangerous on Sunday and enter the final round with a great deal of momentum. Stinger GC Captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/louis-oosthuizen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Oosthuizen<\/a> is oozing with confidence and believes the team is playing well enough to win the Team Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we all play to be in this situation, to have a shot at it tomorrow,&#8221; Oosthuizen said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve had a rough season really and not playing really well but made a big turn in Chicago. Then going into this week, we felt really comfortable. It will be for us going into tomorrow, it&#8217;s going to be go big or go home. We&#8217;re going to try our best to upset everyone and see if we can get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oosthuizen has excelled this season off the tee, ranking 4th in the league by hitting 66.3% of fairways, a critical advantage on The Cardinal at St. John\u2019s tight layout. His short game has also been sharp, gaining +0.25 strokes per round around the greens, placing him 10th in the league.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/dean-burmester\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Burmester<\/a> was arguably the best player in the first two rounds this week. Still riding some form from his win at LIV Golf Chicago two weeks ago, the 36-year-old has made 13 birdies in his 34 holes played this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the start, I said Dean&#8217;s a great player,&#8221; Oosthuizen said. &#8220;He&#8217;s got the length. He&#8217;s got the short game, and he&#8217;s just got a good head on him when he goes out on the golf course and plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burmester leads the league with an average driving distance of 349.6 yards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/charl-schwartzel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charl Schwartzel<\/a> has been the best putter in the league this season, gaining +0.68 strokes per round. He\u2019s a former Masters champion and is the type of player who can raise his game when the stakes are high. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/branden-grace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Branden Grace<\/a> has struggled over the first few days of the tournament but entered the week with two top-5 finishes in his past three starts. If Grace can turn it back on for the final round, Stinger GC will be extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STINGER GC Stinger GC is the dark horse after upsetting Ripper GC and Torque GC in match play.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-93030","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\/93030","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=93030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}