JOAQUIN NIEMANN.\u00a0Niemann missed the cut in two consecutive events in Australia but finished T4 at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic in 2024, which should give him some confidence going into the event.<\/p>\n
VICTOR PEREZ. Perez is another player who will be making their debut as a LIV Golf player this week. The newest Cleeks Golf Club<\/a> member has made five starts at the event, with his best finish coming in 2020 (T16).<\/p>\n DAVID PUIG. Puig is one start removed from winning the BMW Australian PGA Championship and is poised for a breakout season on LIV Golf. He will be making his debut at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic. Last week, he finished T3 at the Dubai Invitational.<\/p>\n PATRICK REED. Reed has a strong history at Emirates Golf Club, finishing T10 last year and second in 2023. The 4Aces GC<\/a> star has been busy this offseason, making his 10th start since the end of the LIV Golf season, which is the most of any player.\u00a0<\/p>\n ELVIS SMYLIE. Smylie is the newest and youngest member of Ripper GC<\/a>. There is an undeniable buzz surrounding his arrival to LIV Golf as one of the most promising Australian talents in professional golf. He made his tournament debut last year at Emirates Golf Club, finishing T58.\u00a0<\/p>\n PLAYER NEWS\u00a0<\/p>\n 4Aces GC announced<\/a>\u00a0Under Armor<\/a> as the team\u2019s new apparel sponsor. They also announced<\/a> Celsius<\/a> as their official energy drink\u00a0partner.<\/p>\n LIV Golf wildcard Anthony Kim<\/a>, who earned his spot for the 2026 by finishing in third place at LIV Golf Promotions, has announced that he\u2019s started his on YouTube channel. In the first episode<\/a>,\u00a0Kim goes through his\u00a0process\u00a0of practicing\u00a0while preparing for tournament golf.<\/p>\n The newest and youngest member of Ripper GC, Elvis Smylie<\/a>, sat down Australian Golf Digest<\/a> with\u00a0for his first interview since joining the team.<\/p>\n Southern Guards GC Captain Louis Oosthuizen told The Africa<\/a> that he contemplated retirement before joining LIV Golf four years ago.<\/p>\n After rebranding from Stinger GC to Southern Guards GC<\/a>, Dean Burmester<\/a> spoke to IOL<\/a> about how both golf and rhino conservation shaped the\u00a0decision to\u00a0for their new logo. \u201cThe plight of the rhino has been close to my heart for about 10, 11 years now and we\u00a0do\u00a0a lot of effort to make sure that the rhino is making a bounce back and with the rebrand obviously, I think it all kind of fell into place,\u201d Burmester said.<\/p>\n Golf Monthly\u00a0crunched the numbers<\/a> and\u00a0determined\u00a0that LIV Golf has the longest players off the tee when being compared to the PGA Tour and DP World Tour.<\/p>\n Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> attempted to break a public golf course record<\/a>, kicking off season two of his popular YouTube series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOAQUIN NIEMANN.\u00a0Niemann missed the cut in two consecutive events in Australia but finished T4 at the Hero Dubai…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-381374","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\/381374","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=381374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}