The LIV-PGA rivalry has reached a brand new degree.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy had been taking over Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a two-on-two in Las Vegas Tuesday.
The latter two gamers defected from the PGA Tour to LIV about 2½ years in the past, and McIlroy lengthy lamented the gamers who had executed so earlier than not too long ago doing an about-face.
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Scottie Scheffler, left, of the PGA Tour and Bryson DeChambeau of LIV Golf discuss earlier than The Showdown: McIlroy and Scheffler vs. DeChambeau and Koepka at Shadow Creek Golf Course Dec. 16, 2024, in Las Vegas. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photographs for The Showdown)
The 4 golfers are in Vegas for a PGA-LIV showdown, and there is now an added wrinkle.
On the second gap, DeChambeau, the reigning U.S. Open champion, mashed a golf ball that had 324 yards of carry.
Bubba Watson, who’s on the printed staff, stated DeChambeau’s drive hit Scheffler’s father.
The occasion is going down at Shadow Creek Golf Membership, the place the primary version of “The Match” passed off between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
Bryson DeChambeau, proper, of LIV Golf talks with Scottie Scheffler of the PGA Tour earlier than The Showdown: McIlroy and Scheffler vs. DeChambeau and Koepka at Shadow Creek Golf Course on December 16, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Photographs for The Showdown)
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Main as much as the match, DeChambeau cracked a joke about McIlroy’s choke job on the U.S. Open as the 2 shared the driving vary collectively.
McIlroy bogeyed three of his ultimate 4 holes and missed two putts that had been each inside three ft. DeChambeau took benefit together with his legendary bunker save to win his second U.S. Open.
McIlroy admitted he wished to “go up in opposition to Bryson and attempt to get him again for what he did to me on the U.S. Open.”
“Nicely, to be truthful, you sort of did it to your self,” DeChambeau replied.
The occasion contains a mixed 13 main championship victories from the 4 golfers — 5 from Koepka, 4 from McIlroy and two apiece from Scheffler and DeChambeau.
Bryson DeChambeau, left, and Scottie Scheffler of america stroll throughout the course in the course of the forty third Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits Sept. 24, 2021, in Kohler, Wis. (Andrew Redington/Getty Photographs)
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Scheffler and DeChambeau had been paired up with each other for final 12 months’s Ryder Cup on Workforce USA.
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