{"id":313523,"date":"2025-10-18T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:43:30","slug":"liv-golf-star-begins-quest-for-masters-return-after-three-year-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313523\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star begins quest for Masters return after three-year absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

LIV Golf star Marc Leishman is teeing it up at the Western Australia Open as he looks to attend all four majors next season and to come out victorious in December\"MarcMarc Leishman in search of the Green Jacket next year(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Marc Leishman is playing in Western Australia<\/a> for the first time in 20 years at the Western Australia Open at Mount Lawley Golf Club.<\/p>\n

LIV Golf<\/a> star Leishman has three top-10 finishes at Augusta National<\/a>, but has been absent from the Masters<\/a> for three consecutive years. Leishman has slid to 486th in the world rankings, but is still considered the highest-ranked player this week at the historic WA Open.<\/p>\n

This event will be the beginning of his comeback tour, as he looks ahead to the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne in December, and the winner of that event earns an invitation to the Masters. “I\u2019m playing obviously here this week,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“I go to the Philippines Monday morning for an International Series event up there and then I\u2019ve got three weeks off and Saudi Arabia. I\u2019ve got the Saudi International, Aussie Open, Aussie PGA.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t want to not play tournament golf for three months leading into an Australian Open at Royal Melbourne particularly, a course I love.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to stay sharp, and this is a tournament that I can do that at on a golf course that is probably going to play similar to what Royal Melbourne is with how firm it\u2019s going to be and the way it\u2019s set up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MarcMarc Leishman tees it off in Western Australia for first time in 20 years<\/p>\n

Leishman is familiar with victories, as the six-time PGA Tour winner is the only player from Ripper GC to win an individual title on LIV Golf this season.<\/p>\n

He also had one of his best seasons on LIV Golf as he finished 13th in the standings. Leishman is hoping to just correct a few things and then find himself at some of the majors in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I can basically keep my butt back and straighten my left knee a little earlier in the downswing, it helps me hold my posture and the bad shots are better,\u201d said Leishman.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo professional golf, like everyone can hit. The good shots are the same.<\/p>\n

“Everyone can hole a wedge or hit a good shot to 10 feet, but it\u2019s the bad shots that I think cut out the big numbers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your drive can miss the fairway by five yards instead of 15, that\u2019s a huge difference and that cuts out the big mistakes, so that\u2019s what we\u2019re working towards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe courses we play are very tough and quite narrow off the tee.<\/p>\n

“With the driver, hopefully the swing changes will help that and give me more opportunities to have with my iron game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIV Golf star Marc Leishman is teeing it up at the Western Australia Open as he looks to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4740,1430,19413,157923,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-313523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-masters-golf-tournament","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115395468377079704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313523","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=313523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}