LIV Golf started its 2024 period Friday at Mayakaoba in Mexico. What a method to begin the year for Joaquin Niemann, as the Torque GC captain terminated off a bogey-free 59
He leads independently by 5 chance ats 12-under, while his Torque GC group likewise has a five-stroke benefit after the preliminary.
Niemann made 10 birdies and a hole-out eagle on Friday. He had a possibility to go also reduced as he was resting at 12-under with 2 openings to go, however parred out.
He started his day on the 2nd opening with a the same level. After that, the 25-year-old passed out. Niemann made 5 birdies straight prior to making his 2nd the same level of the day on the par-3 8th.
Back-to-back birdies complied with on 9 and 10 prior to he holed out for an eagle on the par-4 11th. Niemann soaked the shot and could not think that it entered into the opening.
That fired relocated him to 9-under via 10 openings. With 8 to play, the Chilean made 3 even more birdies at 13, 15 and 17.
Myriad XIII captain Jon Rahm informed the media prior to the event he would certainly wager cash that nobody would certainly fire a 59 on this track.
” He owes me cash after that,” Neimann claimed after his round. “I assume the fairways are playing a whole lot tighter than they utilized to be. It’s a little bit much longer, and you have actually obtained a great deal of various lies, which is complicated. However guy, I played impressive golf. Whenever I was striking the sphere, occasionally I was obtaining excellent lies, excellent bounces right into the fairways, excellent numbers, so whatever appeared respectable throughout the entire day.”
It’s the 2nd time in LIV’s brief background that a person has actually uploaded a historical sub-60 round. Bryson DeChambeau carded an impressive 58 at LIV Golf Greenbrier in 2014.
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