Koepka beats Gooch in playoff in Jeddah (Arabia)

Talor Gooch deservedly won the LIV Golf individual title thanks to his return to the final in Jeddah (Arabia), where he just missed the victory, stolen by Brooks Koepka, after a tiebreaker, which he finally won after playing two holes.

Gooch failed to capture his fourth crown of the year in 13 tournaments, but came close after wins in Adelaide, Singapore and Valderrama. The Oklahoma player won the consistency award with 192 points, beating Cameron Smith (170), who added no points, and Koepka (162), who outlasted Bryson DeChambeau in the final round.

Gooch was tied after 54 holes at the top with -14 with Brooks Koepka, lord and master at King Abdullah’s Economic City on day two, when he dominated his immediate pursuers by three strokes. But Brooks, defending his title and retaining it, was not as good on Saturday and forced the playoff with a great birdie at the par-5 18th, where he both made 4 on the first playoff hole and the second, after leaving said Gooch. on the water, Brooks left victory on a plate, taking home $8 million for winning the tournament and for placing third overall in the individual.

Sergio García (-12) closed out his second best result in the year and a half he has been at LIV after losing the tiebreaker with Gooch in Singapore this season. The man from Castellón shared third place with Harold Varner III and Scott Vincent. Eugenio López Chacarra (-8) was eleventh, while David Puig (-6) had a good culmination to his good week after winning in Singapore and the Catalan 24th. In the individual classification of the season, García is seventeenth with 83 points, David Puig, thirty-first with 40 and Eugenio López Chacarra, thirty seconds with 31.

LIV’s schedule concludes next week with the team finals held at Trump National Doral in Miami.