Dean Burmester of South Africa saved par on the second play-off gap to defeat Sergio Garcia and win LIV Golf Miami for his first LIV victory on Sunday at Trump Nationwide Doral.
After each gamers made par the primary time by way of, they returned to the tee on the par-four 18th, and Spaniard Garcia’s second shot discovered the water hazard. Burmester reached the inexperienced in two photographs, and Garcia holed a bogey putt to place the strain on Burmester to save lots of par.
However there was little to sweat, as Burmester’s three-footer for par was in all the best way, giving the 34-year-old his first LIV title after 4 profession wins on the DP World Tour, together with two in his native South Africa final November and December.
“I really feel like I’ve performed some actually nice golf during the last 5, six months,” Burmester mentioned.
“The 2 wins again dwelling in South Africa earlier than Christmas had been particular, two tournaments I’ve needed to win for a very long time, and to win the South African Open, which is the second oldest event on the earth, is a privilege.
“I believed I held myself very well there, and to come back right here on a golf course like this that is major-worthy and to beat main champions, I am glad to have achieved that.”
Garcia, who held a share of the lead after the primary spherical and a two-stroke benefit after the second, as soon as once more got here up brief in a play-off. The 2017 Masters champion misplaced a play-off at LIV Golf Singapore final 12 months to Talor Gooch and fell to Chile’s Joaquin Niemann on the 2024 season opener at Mayakoba.
Garcia made a dramatic 40-foot birdie putt throughout the seventeenth inexperienced to get to 12 beneath, and up forward, Burmester carded his solely bogey of the day on the 18th to complete at four-under 68 for the day and 11-under 205 for the week.
However when Garcia reached the inexperienced in two, he merely needed to make two putts to shine off the win in regulation. His first got here up nicely brief, and his par try slid previous the cup, as he settled for a final-round 70 and the play-off.
“It isn’t the play-offs. I am doing it (to) myself,” Garcia mentioned. “Clearly a few photographs right here and there. But it surely’s what it’s. You have to hold giving your self possibilities and watch for it to occur.”
Burmester birdied his first two holes of the day and 5 in all earlier than his lone bogey got here on the 18th. He hadn’t bogeyed since his second gap of the second spherical, so he was pleased with how he fared on a tricky course.
“It is only a actually, actually robust beat-you-up type of golf course,” Burmester mentioned. “When you hit unhealthy photographs you are going to make bogeys at greatest. Yeah, that was type of my mantra was simply give myself as many birdie putts as I can and make pars and if a pair go in that is nice, as a result of no person goes to shoot 59 round right here.”
Matthew Wolff (69 Sunday) completed in third two photographs behind at 10 beneath. Marc Leishman (69) of Australia, Jon Rahm (69) of Spain and Tyrrell Hatton (71) of England tied for fourth at eight beneath.
Rahm made a vital birdie putt on his final gap of the day, the par-four second, to ship his crew, Legion XIII, to a one-shot victory over Bubba Watson’s RangeGoats GC. Legion XIII completed 22 beneath for the week for the second win of their inaugural season in LIV Golf.
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