It all came down to the last three holes and it was ultimately the 4 Aces who won the 2022 LIV Golf Final. Tournament favorites and number one seeds after four regular season wins, Dustin Johnson’s teammates handled it perfectly the return to the stroke play formula this Sunday (total of the four cards), after two days of match play in direct elimination.
The four Americans first saw the South African Stingers implode (quadruple bogey from Branden Grace on hole 4, +10 total as a team), while the Smashes never saw the light of day due to the surprising poor form of the Koepka brothers (+5 cumulative for Brooks and Chase, and total of +4).
The title was therefore played with the Punch of world number three Cameron Smith. The disappointing +2 from Marc Leishman and the angry birdies at the end of the game from Patrick Reed tipped the score in favor of the 4 Aces. Favorites who prevail on a last par at 18 from Dustin Johnson (-7 cumulative, against -6 for the Punch). This despite the -7 returned by the only Smith, author of eight birdies and only one bogey on the selective route of Miami, formerly host of the WGC.
The 4 Aces thus pocket 16 million dollars, in this tournament endowed with a total of 50 million greenbacks. An 8th and last tournament for this LIV 2022 circuit, which will resume in February, for 14 tournaments around the world.
