Talor Gooch Performs A LIV Golf First With Back-to-Back Victories

Talor Gooch became the first LIV Golf player to win back-to-back tournaments this weekend after a playoff win over Sergio Garcia, wrapping up the Asian-Pacific leg with two victories and millions in winnings.

Gooch won the LIV Singapore tournament with a score of -17, but Spaniard Sergio Garcia matched that score, and the two went into the second playoff in the history of the controversial tour. Gooch was able to pull off the victory, and his team, RangeGoats, took home the team trophy for the weekend as well.

Back-to-back! 🏆🏆

Talor Gooch wins in Singapore to become our first back-to-back winner 👏#LIVgolf @rangegoatsgc pic.twitter.com/7Hu6Fvr24n

— LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) April 30, 2023

Team Captain of the RangeGoat GC is Bubba Watson, a two-time Masters Champion who defected to LIV late last year. “We all believed that he could do this. We knew he could do this. And this is just the start of it,” he said about Gooch. “When you get a taste of it, you want more of it.”

RangeGoats GC finished with a cumulative score of -37, three clear of Fireballs GC at -34.

It appears that the back-to-back weekends of competition, which is uncommon in the LIV Golf circuit, may have benefitted Gooch, who was on fire through the first two rounds of last week’s event in Australia by firing back-to-back -10 rounds of 62. He nearly blew the monumental lead at the event but managed to hold on and take home his first LIV victory.

This week is a continuation of Gooch’s success as he wrapped up his second title. Still, Gooch is conflicted regarding the implications of his defect to LIV from the PGA Tour, which has ultimately disqualified him from the U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club:

“Unfortunately, the USGA decided to go in a different direction, and they retroactively changed that rule, and basically the rule now within the USGA states you have to qualify for the Tour Championship and also be eligible to play, which was obviously disappointing because that changing the rule, it affected one person, which was me. And so that was frustrating and tough.”

LIV returns to the U.S. in two weeks at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma for LIV Golf Tulsa.

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