Bryson DeChambeau, the 2020 US Open champion, fired a uncommon 58 within the ultimate spherical to win the LIV Golf Greenbrier title on Sunday.
The 29-year-old American had 13 birdies towards a lone bogey to shoot 12-under and end on 23-under 187 for the 54-hole occasion on the resort in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.
That was sufficient for a six-stroke victory over Chile’s Mito Pereira, who fired a closing 63.
“It’s beyond words,” DeChambeau stated. “I’ve been working so hard for a long time, and I knew something special was going to come at some point. I just didn’t know when.”
DeChambeau referred to as it “probably the greatest moment in my golfing career.”
“I had something special going today, and I just felt super comfortable over tee shots,” he stated. “I just kind of felt everything clicking. Missed it in the right places when I needed to and putted beautifully.”
DeChambeau’s rating on the Old White course on the upstart Saudi-backed circuit matched the bottom spherical in US PGA Tour historical past, the 12-under 58 fired by American Jim Furyk in 2016 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.
“Being a part of the same agency, as well, is kind of fun,” DeChambeau stated of the elite-level 58 membership.
The Old White hosted a PGA occasion from 2010 to 2019, and Australian Stuart Appleby fired a 59 within the ultimate spherical of the inaugural event to win the title.
DeChambeau birdied 22 of his final 34 holes on The Old White for his first victory because the 2021 PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
“Just having my place in history here is something I’ll cherish for the rest of my life,” DeChambeau stated after his course-record effort.
It additionally was DeChambeau’s first win since his father, Jon DeChambeau, died final November at age 63 after years of battling kidney illness.
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“He was with me out there all day today, no doubt,” DeChambeau stated.
“It has been a really difficult couple of years but doing it this way and finishing out with a 58… it’s just amazing what I was able to do. I’m super excited.”
Ryder Cup? ‘Awesome’
Asked if the 58 may convey a name from US Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson to play subsequent month towards Europe in Italy, DeChambeau was matter-of-fact concerning the prospect.
“If I do get a call, that would be awesome,” he stated. “If not, I’ll be rooting them on over in Rome.”
Other 58s worldwide embody these fired by Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa in 2010 and South Korea’s Kim Seong-hyeon in 2021 on the Japan Tour, American Jason Bohn in 2001 on the Canadian Tour, Germany’s Stephan Jaeger in 2016 on the developmental Korn Ferry Tour and Spain’s Alejandro del Rey in 2021 on the Challenge Tour.
DeChambeau opened with back-to-back birdies, reeled off 4 in a row beginning on the fourth gap, and took his lone bogey on the par-3 eighth however adopted with back-to-back birdies at 9 and 10.
He stated he contemplated a 54 after six birdies within the first seven holes however “I threw that to the wayside, like just get under 60 first.”
He birdied the par-5 twelfth then closed with consecutive birdies on the par-3 fifteenth, par-4 sixteenth and par-5 seventeenth, knocking in a six-foot putt, and the par-3 18th, the place he sank a 40-foot putt from over a ridge in wet circumstances for 58, then jumped for pleasure and pumped his proper fist in celebration.
“I pretty much felt like I blacked out after I made that putt,” stated DeChambeau.
DeChambeau opened Friday with a 68 and matched the prior all-time low spherical in LIV’s two-season historical past with a 61 on Saturday to drag inside a stroke of 36-hole US co-leaders Matthew Wolff and David Puig.
In the group competitors, Pereira’s Torque completed on 49-under to defeat DeChambeau’s Crushers by three strokes.