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Sergio García’s Fireballs sweep their way to the LIV semi-finals

Tfinished the season individually at LIV GolfDallas is the scene of the team outcome, whose prize for the winner will be 14 million, of which 60 percent (8.4) will fall into the club structure and 10 percent for each of the four components.

Friday was the day for the quarterfinals, the tie from which the three best-ranked teams of the season won.among them Jon Rahm’s Legion Torque by Joaco Niemann (1-2), respectively. The left-handed team will face his friend from Barrika in the semifinals.

Those who fulfilled their role were the Fireballs, the franchise captained by Sergio García, which he forms together with Eugenio López Chacarra, David Puig and the Mexican Abraham Ancer. They won emphatically (3-0) against the Majestic of Westwood and company, with Chacarra and Puig winning their singles and Borriol’s in the pair.

Eugenio, irregular in the season, fought a great match with Henrik Stenson, a winner of majorsto win the 19th hole. It was a very tough match in which both played at three under par and in which the Swede won the last two regular holes to force a tiebreaker. There, the Spaniard did not forgive and by signing the pair he obtained the ticket for his team.

David Puig plays a tee shot in Dallas

Calmer was the victory of Puig, the golfer who does not stop growing. He was facing Ian Poulter, a specialist match play player, famous for his victories in the Ryder Cup. The Catalan gave him no option. He won the starter and the next and in the first nine holes he had made five birdies, raising the distance to 4 on the scoreboard. He ended up winning 3 and 2.

Meanwhile, Sergio and Ancer went from less to more. They had to come back from the fifth hole (the tenth of their round)but from that moment they took the reins of the clash against Westwood and Horsfield. An eagle in the eighth leg put them ahead and they did not abandon that position until the match was settled 2 and 1. The Fireballs will now face Cameron Smith’s Ripper in the semifinals.

In the other two qualifiers, the South African Stingers (Oosthuizen, Burmester, Schwartzel and Grace) They did not suffer to beat the Cleeks 3-0, although Meronk took his match to the 19th hole, and Dustin Johnson’s Aces, winners of the first team final in 2022, will fight for a place in the final by beating the Range Goats 2-1.



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