{"id":170083,"date":"2025-08-23T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170083\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T21:25:08","slug":"liv-golf-michigan-team-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170083\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Michigan Team Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/stinger-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stinger GC<\/a>, the lowest seed (7th) to get into the finals, had the crowd roaring and defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/torque-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Torque GC<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/mito-pereira\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mito Pereira<\/a> put the pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/branden-grace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Branden Grace<\/a> early by making birdies on three of his first four holes and eventually beat him 4&amp;2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/dean-burmester\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Burmester<\/a>, who led the field in birdies on Friday, continued his strong play by holding off LIV Golf\u2019s all-time wins leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/joaquin-niemann\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joaquin Niemann<\/a>, 2 up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was obviously 4-up with seven or eight holes to go and I knew I had to still hit good shots,&#8221; Burmester said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a class player, and he proved it. He made five birdies in six holes there, and I obviously didn&#8217;t. Got us all down to the last hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/louis-oosthuizen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Oosthuizen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/charl-schwartzel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charl Schwartzel<\/a> took care of business against the strong pairing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/sebastian-munoz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Munoz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/players\/carlos-ortiz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Ortiz<\/a>, 2&amp;1. Oosthuizen and Schwartzel have a long history of being paired together in match play, dating back to the 2013 Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In the consolation matches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/ripper-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ripper GC<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/rangegoats-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RangeGoats GC<\/a> (2-1), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/4aces-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4Aces GC<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/majesticks-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Majesticks GC<\/a> (3-0) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/fireballs-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fireballs GC<\/a> defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/cleeks-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleeks Golf Club<\/a> (2-1).<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday\u2019s final round, all twelve players from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/legion-xiii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legion XIII<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/crushers-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crushers GC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livgolf.com\/stinger-gc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stinger GC<\/a> will go off the first tee, with all four scores counting to see who will be crowned as 2025 LIV Golf Team Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stinger GC, the lowest seed (7th) to get into the finals, had the crowd roaring and defeated Torque&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-170083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080195307731928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}