Much like the beginning of last year, Joaquin Niemann has started 2025 on fire, winning LIV Golf Singapore on Sunday for his second victory in the first four events of the season.
Niemann, who also won LIV Golf Adelaide in February, fired a final-round, 6-under 65 to top the field at Sentosa Golf Club, outlasting Smash GC’s Brooks Koepka, who finished second, and RangeGoats GC’s Ben Campbell, who rounded out the podium in third.
The Torque GC captain has now won four LIV Golf events total, trailing only Koepka, who has five titles to his name. Niemann won two of the first three events in 2024, and eventually finished second in the season-long race for the Individual title.
“Today was one of those days everything went my way,” Niemann said. “I feel like I stayed really in the moment on those tough tee shots at the beginning of the round and I was able to get it going quick so that helped me to build that momentum and feel free for the whole round.”
Niemann started the day in a tie atop the leaderboard with 4Aces GC captain Dustin Johnson at 11 under, but jumped in front with a birdie on the first hole and never looked back. Niemann added five more birdies to his card during a flawless final round to claim the runaway five-shot individual victory.
Tom McKibbin couldn’t follow up his excellent second round with a similarly strong finishing one, and he traded five birdies with four bogeys to card a closing 71 that left him in a share of 25th place at -2.
There was, however, the silver lining of yet another podium finish for Legion XII who finished in second place at -19, but Championship Sunday belonged to Fireballs GC for the third week in a row, with captain Sergio Garcia (71), David Puig (66), Abraham Ancer (69), Luis Masaveu (68) finishing the round at 10 under to take the title at 22 under, three ahead of Legion XIII and four ahead of 4Aces GC, who finished in third.
“Super proud of the way they played and what we’ve been able to achieve,” said Garcia after the round.
The Fireballs started the day 8 shots off the lead but came roaring back to claim their sixth win in franchise history, becoming the first team since the 4Aces in 2022 to win three straight events.
It was a week to forget for Graeme McDowell, who finished second-to-last at +10 after a closing 75.
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