Dustin Johnson leads by three pictures after a bogey-free 63 in Friday’s opening spherical on the LIV Golf Singapore event at Sentosa Golf Membership.
The 8-under spherical marked the bottom relative to par in 109 rounds on the circuit for the 4Aces GC captain.
The 2-time main winner recorded 5 of his eight birdies on the again 9 to construct a three-stroke lead over Spain’s Sebastian Munoz of Torque GC. Eight others are tied for third at 4-under 67, together with defending champion Brooks Koepka of Smash GC.
Johnson’s 4Aces, in search of their first group win since 2023, lead the group competitors by two strokes over Torque GC at 14-under. Phil Mickelson’s HyFlyers GC sit third at 10-under.
Johnson, 40, struggled with shoulder soreness final week at LIV Hong Kong.
“I could not flip my head to the precise,” Johnson mentioned. “I type of simply pulled after I was on the by means of swing, so I used to be hitting all the things left. It wasn’t a complete lot of enjoyable.”
He acquired remedy after the Hong Kong second spherical and his physique responded previous to Sunday’s ultimate. He shot a 6-under 64, tying for the third-best rating of the day, however he nonetheless completed final for the primary time at an LIV Golf event.
In ending with a 63 at Sentosa’s Serapong course on Friday, Johnson hit 16 greens, tying for greatest within the area. On the greens, his placing was environment friendly, particularly on the par-3 14th the place he holed a birdie putt from 58 ft.
“I put a variety of work within the final couple of days on the putter,” Johnson mentioned, “and it paid off.”
Johnson is in search of his fourth league particular person title. He is received as soon as in every of the three seasons of LIV Golf and may turn out to be the primary participant to win in all 4 seasons.
Munoz continues making an attempt to run down his first LIV Golf title. He has held or shared second place after 5 of the primary 10 rounds of the 2025 LIV Golf season.
“I do not know if I’ll get it finished this week, however I am working laborious at it,” Munoz mentioned. “I need that chance once more.”
5 group captains are among the many group bunched up at 4-under: Koepka, Jon Rahm (Legion XIII), Joaquin Niemann (Torque GC), Louis Oosthuizen (Stinger GC) and Cameron Smith (Ripper GC).
–Discipline Stage Media
