{"id":20429,"date":"2023-04-23T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/golf-gooch-overcomes-mid-round-slump\/"},"modified":"2023-04-23T07:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T07:09:40","slug":"golf-gooch-overcomes-mid-round-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/golf-gooch-overcomes-mid-round-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Gooch overcomes mid-round slump to claim maiden LIV Tour victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) – Talor Gooch held his nerve to claim the LIV Golf Adelaide title at a sold-out The Grand Golf Club on Sunday, overcoming a mid-round slump to keep Anirban Lahiri at bay to win by three strokes and secure the US$4 million first-place pay cheque.<\/p>\n

Gooch held a 10-shot lead over former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel going into the third and final round of the event, the Saudi Arabia-backed tour’s first in Australia, only to see his advantage whittled down throughout the course of the day. <\/p>\n

“Winning on any tour is hard, winning on this type of golf course in front of this type of a crowd is not easy,” said Gooch, who finished 19-under. “There were a couple of moments there where it got shaky and you know that’s going to happen. <\/p>\n

“You can’t go three days on this type of golf course and not make mistakes so when I made the birdie on 11, that was time to dig deep and go get a victory.”<\/p>\n

Gooch started the day 20-under following back-to-back rounds of 62 and he picked up another shot with a birdie at the par-four fifth.<\/p>\n

But the 31-year-old dropped four strokes in four holes as he followed up consecutive bogeys on the seventh and eighth with a double bogey on the 10th to allow the chasing pack to close.<\/p>\n

Lahiri, who opened the day 11 shots adrift, put the greatest pressure on Gooch and at one point had pulled to within two strokes of the lead.<\/p>\n

Gooch rallied, however, with birdies at the 11th and 13th, steadying the American as he went on to win his first event on the LIV Tour.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the 4Aces, captained by Dustin Johnson and featuring Patrick Reed, Peter Uihlein and Pat Perez, won the US$3 million first prize in the team event, finishing one shot ahead of the Bubba Watson-led Range Goats.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Michael Church, Editing by Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n

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