{"id":430880,"date":"2026-05-08T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:04:08","slug":"herbert-ripper-gc-lead-at-maaden-liv-golf-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430880\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert, Ripper GC lead at Maaden LIV Golf Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">STERLING, Va. \u2013\u00a0Lucas Herbert stole the show on Thursday at Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C., firing an 8-under 64 to take a two-shot lead after the first round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/schedule\/virginia-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-fg-medium underline\">Maaden LIV Golf Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Herbert, who has been up and down\u00a0this season, was in a different gear on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/leaderboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"text-fg-medium underline\">Leaderboard<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Four players \u2014 Tyrrell Hatton, Marc Leishman, Sergio Garcia and Sebasti\u00e1n Mu\u00f1oz \u2014 sit in a share of second place at 6-under 66. Hatton&#8217;s strong opening round continues a hot stretch of golf\u00a0after finishing\u00a0T3 at the Masters and T5 at LIV Golf Mexico City.\u00a0Leishman, who calls Virginia home, looked comfortable in familiar surroundings. Garcia and Mu\u00f1oz give their respective teams \u2014 Fireballs GC and Torque GC \u2014 strong footholds heading into the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Graeme McDowell sits alone in sixth at 5-under, while Dean Burmester, Anthony Kim, Jeongwoo Ham who\u2019s making his first LIV Golf start,\u00a0and Victor Perez are clustered at 4-under in a tie for seventh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Some of the biggest names in the field find themselves a bit further back. Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Thomas Detry are all grouped together at 3-under, two shots off the pace in a tie for 11th. For Detry in particular, with the U.S. Open exemption on the line, there is ground to make up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-article-body text-fg-low \">Overall, there are 26 players within four shots of the lead, setting up what should be an enthralling three days of competition ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STERLING, Va. \u2013\u00a0Lucas Herbert stole the show on Thursday at Trump National Golf Club Washington D.C., firing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-430880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}