Story By: Erin Zollars
Photos By: Sol Tucker
Sugar Creek, IL–
After spending several days at an amazing golf course just an hour west of Chicago, it was hard to leave with all of the entertainment of Nelly and Tiesto, but the real entertainment came from Bryson De Chambeau over the weekend as be stayed laser focused and put himself in contention to win going into the final round on Sunday.
DeChambeau won the LIV Golf Chicago with another great performance in the final round. The American started the day eight shots off the lead but shot an 8-under 63 to win the tournament on the final stroke. His final score was 13-under 200.
He didn’t make it easy on himself going into the final few holes on Sunday when India’s Anirban Lahiri dominated much of the round and had a sure “gimmie” as he came toward that celebration stage on 18. Lahiri was tied with DeChambeau at -13 when the American finished his round and Lahiri had to play the 18th.
With a birdie, he would have beaten DeChambeau by one stroke and won the LIV Golf Chicago outright. But he couldn’t do it, making bogey to finish at -12.
The LIV Golf Chicago is Bryson DeChambeau’s second win of the season and in his history on the circuit. He currently sits third in the individual standings with only two tournaments remaining in the regular season.
” That’s about as good as it gets in the golf world,” said DeChambeau after the round. Thats a bit of LIV golf for you. We have quite a bit of suspense out here, but this makes it interesting going into the final two tournaments of the season.”
Perhaps the biggest disappointment we heard from fans this weekend was the play of Brooks Koepka. He clearly has other things on his mind being the only player from the LIV Tour to head on to Italy to represent the United States. Let’s not forget that he and his wife just welcomed a new baby, so he has a lot on his plate and this may have been his “off” weekend on the course as he finished tied for 24th.
LIV Golf Chicago: Final Leaderboard
The final LIV Golf Chicago Leaderboard is shown below. Individual and team results are included:
Singles:
1 Bryson DeChambeau -13
T2 Marc Leishman -12
T2 Anirban Lahiri -12
4 Sebastian Munoz -11
T5 Peter Uihlein -10
T5 Henrik Stenson -10
T5 Talor Gooch -10
T5 Abraham Ancer -10
T9 Richard Bland -9
T9 Dustin Johnson -9
T11 Brendan Steele -8
T11 Carlos Ortiz -8
T11 Thomas Pieters -8
T14 Sergio Garcia -7
T14 Sam Horsfield -7
T14 Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra -7
T14 Scott Vincent -7
T18 Charles Howell III -6
T18 Joaquin Niemann -6
T18 Charl Schwartzel -6
T18 Patrick Reed -6
T18 Louis Oosthuizen -6
T18 Dean Burmester -6
T24 Bubba Watson -5
T24 Jason Kokrak -5
T24 Brooks Koepka -5
