FOUR OR MORE: With his victory Sunday, Jon Rahm becomes the fifth LIV Golf player to win four or more tournaments, joining Joaquin Niemann (7 wins), Bryson DeChambeau (5), Brooks Koepka (5) and Talor Gooch (4).\u00a0<\/p>\n
DETRY LEADS U.S. OPEN CHASE: First-year LIV Golf player Thomas Detry of 4Aces GC is in pole position to claim the U.S. Open exemption that will be determined after the next LIV Golf tournament in Virginia on May 7-10.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The U.S. Open exemption goes to the top player who is not otherwise exempt and in the top 3 of the season-long Individual standings as of May 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thanks to his tie for 5th in Mexico City, Detry moved up two spots in the points standings and is now in third place behind Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau. Since those two players already are exempt into the U.S. Open, Detry would get the exemption.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next 10 players behind Detry also are not exempt and still have a mathematical chance to move into the top 3. That list includes David Puig, the runner-up to Rahm on Sunday who is now sixth in the standings; and third-place finisher Josele Ballester, who is now 10th in points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Torque GC Captain Joaquin Niemann claimed the other U.S. Open exemption awarded to LIV Golf by finishing second in the final 2025 Individual standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MEXICO\u2019S FAVORITES: Torque GC teammates and home favorites Carlos Ortiz and Abraham Ancer, who have represented Mexico in the last two Olympics, each rallied from disappointing starts to the week to finish inside the top 25 on the individual leaderboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ortiz shot his lowest round of the week, a 3-under 68, to finish at 7 under and tied for 17th. Ancer shot a 2-under 69 to finish at 5 under and tied for 22nd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both players were grateful for the hometown support.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen things are not going your way, it’s tough to embrace it and really be happy, and you’re obviously just a little bit upset inside,\u201d Ancer said. \u201cBut the crowd was phenomenal, and it was really good to see the amount of kids that came out, so that was really cool. I can’t wait for next year.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
BALLESTER\u2019S WALK-UP SONG: Fireballs GC adopted Legion XIII\u2019s routine of having teammates select each other\u2019s walk-up songs, resulting in some unconventional and funny choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josele Ballester got the taste of it this week as teammate Luis Masaveu chose the song \u201cDancing Queen.\u201d However, it wasn\u2019t the version by ABBA but by Wing, the China-based artist who performs operatic covers of pop hits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ballester was tied for second when he reached the par-3 18th, where walk-up songs also are played. But he teed off to another song.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually pretty nice on the final shot of the tournament that I didn’t have it,\u201d Ballester said with a smile. \u201cI think the DJ or whoever was in charge, it was kind of nice, he just put something different because it was atrocious, it was terrible.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
DECHAMBEAU\u2019S STREAK ENDS WITH WD: Crushers GC Captain Bryson DeChambeau, who entered this week seeking to become the first LIV Golf player to win three consecutive tournaments, was forced to withdraw prior to the final round due to a wrist injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeChambeau won the previous two LIV Golf tournaments via playoffs over Richard T. Lee in Singapore and Jon Rahm in South Africa. He played the first three rounds in Mexico City at 2 over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DeChambeau experienced discomfort in his wrist in Saturday\u2019s third round and did not want to risk further injury. \u201cI\u2019m going to take a few days to get evaluated and hope to be ready for LIV Golf Virginia,\u201d DeChambeau noted in a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reserve player Luis Carrera of Mexico filled DeChambeau\u2019s spot in the Crushers\u2019 lineup Sunday, shooting a 1-over 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOUR OR MORE: With his victory Sunday, Jon Rahm becomes the fifth LIV Golf player to win four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-595882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}