{"id":27124,"date":"2025-07-27T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27124\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:24:06","slug":"liv-golf-joaquin-niemann-wins-uk-leg-of-tour-for-fifth-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/27124\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf: Joaquin Niemann wins UK leg of tour for fifth this season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chile&#8217;s Joaquin Niemann won the UK leg of the LIV Golf tour for his fifth title of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after the 26-year-old parted ways with his coach and caddie after missing the cut at the Open earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niemann started the final round with a six-shot lead at the JCB Golf and Country Club in Rocester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And a steady round of 68, including five birdies and a bogey, left his rivals with a gap that proved too big to close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nearest challenger Bubba Watson did make a bold effort as his six-under 65 &#8211; featuring a run of four birdies and two eagles on the back nine &#8211; threatened to make things interesting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Niemann admitted feeling some pressure before he settled to finish three shots clear on 17 under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I felt like today I was pretty calm, pretty chill, until Bubba started playing golf,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chile&#8217;s Joaquin Niemann won the UK leg of the LIV Golf tour for his fifth title of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-27124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}