{"id":471544,"date":"2026-03-12T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:41:07","slug":"rahm-dechambeau-in-four-way-tie-after-rd-1-in-singapore-legion-xiii-top-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471544\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahm, DeChambeau in four-way tie after Rd. 1 in Singapore; Legion XIII top team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes &amp; Nuggets\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Round 1 team leaders Legion XIII were the only team to have all four players contributing a score under par Thursday; Jon Rahm\u2019s team holds a six-shot lead, tying for the second-largest Rd. 1 lead in LIV Golf history<\/p>\n<p>Richard T. Lee shot 4-under on par 4s in Rd. 1, two shots better than any other player<\/p>\n<p>Jon Rahm has made birdie or better on his last 11 par 5s and is 12 under over those 11 holes<\/p>\n<p>HyFlyers GC\u2019s Cameron Tringale is making his fourth LIV Golf Singapore start and has finished the opening round inside the top five each time \u2013 T2 (2023), T2 (2024), T3 (2025) and T5 (2026)<\/p>\n<p>Over half the field (29 players) had to take a penalty stroke on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>The 15th hole played the to an average of +0.40, the most difficult hole on Thursday; a total of 18 players played the hole over par, with nine players hitting it in the water\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>STATS LEADERS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Round 1<\/p>\n<p>Driving Distance: Lucas Herbert, 328.5-yard avg.<\/p>\n<p>Longest Drive: Luis Masaveu, 340.3 yards (18th hole)<\/p>\n<p>Driving Accuracy: Charles Howell III, Cameron Tringale, Tom McKibbin, Sergio Garcia, Bubba Watson, 78.57% (11 of 14)<\/p>\n<p>Greens in Regulation: Lee Westwood, Jon Rahm, 83.33% (15 of 18)<\/p>\n<p>Scrambling: Thomas Detry (7 of 7), Marc Leishman (6 of 6), Adrian Meronk (3 of 3), Lee Westwood (3 of 3), 100%<\/p>\n<p>Fewest Putts: Tom McKibbin, Miguel Tabuena, 24<\/p>\n<p>Bogey-free rounds: Lee Westwood (67), Thomas Detry (68), Marc Leishman (68)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Notes &amp; Nuggets\u00a0 Round 1 team leaders Legion XIII were the only team to have all four players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471544","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\/471544","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=471544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}