LIV Golf started its 2024 season Friday at Mayakaoba in Mexico. What a technique to begin the yr for Joaquin Niemann, because the Torque GC captain fired off a bogey-free 59.
He leads individually by 5 pictures at 12-under, whereas his Torque GC workforce additionally has a five-stroke benefit after the primary spherical.
Niemann made 10 birdies and a hole-out eagle on Friday. He had an opportunity to go even decrease as he was sitting at 12-under with two holes to go, however parred out.
He started his day on the second gap with a par. Then, the 25-year-old blacked out. Niemann made 5 birdies in a row earlier than making his second par of the day on the par-3 eighth.
Again-to-back birdies adopted on 9 and 10 earlier than he holed out for an eagle on the par-4 eleventh. Niemann dunked the shot and could not consider that it went into the opening.
That shot moved him to 9-under via 10 holes. With eight to play, the Chilean made three extra birdies at 13, 15 and 17.
Legion XIII captain Jon Rahm instructed the media earlier than the event he’d wager cash that nobody would shoot a 59 on this monitor.
“He owes me cash then,” Neimann stated after his spherical. “I feel the fairways are enjoying loads tighter than they was. It is a bit of longer, and you have got a number of completely different lies, which is difficult. However man, I performed superb golf. At any time when I used to be hitting the ball, generally I used to be getting good lies, good bounces into the fairways, good numbers, so the whole lot got here out fairly good throughout the entire day.”
It’s the second time in LIV’s quick historical past that somebody has posted a historic sub-60 spherical. Bryson DeChambeau carded an epic 58 at LIV Golf Greenbrier final yr.
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