Gooch fires again at Johnson after LIV star’s brutal dig at ex-temmate

Talor Gooch has fired again at his former 4Aces teammate and captain Dustin Johnson, after the previous secured his second LIV Golf title within the house of seven days. Gooch has loved fairly the week on the Saudi-funded circuit, successful each LIV Adelaide and LIV Singapore, incomes him a cool £6.4million ($8m) within the course of.

His victory in Singapore got here with added significance on Sunday, because it helped his RangeGoats teammates to the crew title, in addition to his particular person success. The triumph with the RangeGoats was Gooch’s first crew victory since prevailing together with his former facet the 4Aces final marketing campaign, after captain Johnson led them to the season-ending crew championship in Miami.

The 2020 Masters champion was additionally up on the rostrum final weekend, because the 4Aces secured their first crew title of the season after prevailing in Adelaide. Speaking after the occasion, Johnson was questioned on whether or not he was happy for his former teammate however gave a brutal response.

Claiming that he was glad to have ‘snipped’ Gooch from the 4Aces, the reigning LIV seasonal champion stated: “Yeah, obviously I like Talor, and he did really well for us last year, and obviously he played great this week.

“But yeah, I’m glad we snipped him, though, for sure, just to give it to him a little bit more.” His comments came after Johnson had previously joked to his former teammate that he’d hoped he’d enjoyed his place on the podium at the campaign finale in Miami last October as he would not be returning anytime soon.

Six months on Gooch has proven the former Masters champion wrong, and had a simple message for Johnson following Sunday’s victory. Quizzed on his former teammate’s jibes following his £3.6m win, he quickly replied: “Yeah, where’s D.J. [Dustin Johnson] right now?”