Zimbabwean golfer Kieran Vincent celebrated his second team title of the season on the LIV Golf circuit after hus Legion XIII clinchef the team honours at the Miami leg of the lucrative tour on Sunday.
The 26-year-old Harare-born golfer’s Legion XIII held off the RangeGoats GC by a single shot at 22 under for their second win of the season at Trump National Doral.
Stinger GC finished in a distant third at 15 under.
Legion XIII was led by captain Job Rahm’s 3-under 69, with Caleb Surratt contributing a 70, Hatton a 71 and Kieran Vincent a 77 to finish at 1 under for the day and 22 under for the week.
They were in command for a large part of the day until Hatton started struggling off the tee and Vincent hitting a rough patch with four consecutive bogeys.
Meanwhile Zimbabwe-born South African golfer Dean Burmester took down the 2017 Masters champion in a two-hole playoff at 2024 LIV Golf Miami at Trump National Doral to claim the $4 million prize and hand Garcia his third playoff loss since joining LIV.
Burmester shot consistent rounds of 68-69-68 to finish tied with Garcia at 11 under and then won LIV’s fifth event of the season with a par on the second playoff hole after each player made par the first time around.
The victory is Burmester’s third in the last year after he won the Joburg Open and South African Open on the DP World Tour in consecutive weeks at the end of 2023.
“It’s special because coming over, obviously I was coming over to three friends and I was excited about that, but I also wanted to prove myself against a lot of the best players in the world, a lot of major champions,” said Burmester, who plays for the Stinger GC team.
“Now that I’ve done that a year and a half in, I’m super stoked and proud of myself and now we’re going to try to do it again.”
“I mean, it’s certainly probably the best golf of my career,” he said of his current form. “If I look at it that way, the amount of wins, the amount of top 10s, top 5s that I’m producing is some really special stuff.”
Thirteen LIV players will take their talents down Magnolia Lane this week for the 2024 Masters while the rest of the 54-player field will take a break before traveling to Australia for 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide, April 26-28, at the Grange Golf Club.