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Joaquin Niemann faces a bigger question after his latest Liv Golf victory
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Joaquin Niemann He did it again on Sunday.
For the fourth time this season, the 26-year-old Chilean gathered a last-round round to look for a win at the Breakaway Golf tour. Niemann entered the fourth day of the leader of 36 holes Anirban Lahiri but on Robert Trent Jones Golf Club On Sunday, shooting one last year eight-nine 63 years old to defeat Lahiri and Graeme McDowell with a stroke. At the beginning of this season, Niemann fired a last round 65 (seven under) to grab the title in Liv Adelaide. He shot one last round 65 (six under) to win Liv Singapore and Barnsormed Liv Mexico City With a round round 65 (six under) to defeat Bryson Dechambeau.
Niemann now has six wins in his Liv Golf career, but a much bigger question approaches the 2025 US Open at Oakmont on the deck.
Niemann is an extremely talented golf player who still should not enter his prime minister. Data Golf has Niemann ranked as the number 8 player in the world after his victory in Liv Virginia. The only names in front of him: Scheffler, Mcilroy, Dechambeau, Rahm, Thomas, Fleetwood and Morikawa.
There is no denial of Niemann’s talent. He is one of the best ball strikers in the world.
But the great success of the championship has extinguished Niemann. Prior to his ending T8 at the PGA 2025 championship in Quail Hollow, Niemann’s best end at the largest stages of Golf was a T16 in Masters 2023. In fact, this was the only time Niemann hit the top 20 places on his first 23 beginnings.
He marked a Top-10 conclusion at the big start no. 24, but he knows he still has a lot to try in large championships, starting with what promises to be an accurate test in Oakmont.
“Well, it’s always difficult to be patient everywhere. But I think it’s hard to say. I feel like I’m still far from winning one,” Niemann told the major after I won Liv Virginia. “I’m just happy to be playing at US Open. It will be a great course, very difficult conditions. I’m just looking forward to that challenge and have a fun week.”
Niemann won entry into the US Open through the new exclusion of the USGA golf that goes to the senior player in the individual Liv Golf ranking which is not otherwise excluded until May 19. Niemann had three victories at that point and easily hit his ticket in Oakmont.
Niemann’s T8 finish in Quail Hollow received some of the championship weight from the back. It is a beautiful yellow box of Wikipedia that was previously lost, but Niemann was not a factor in the Charlotte weekend procedures. He played rigid golf too much ahead of the eventual Scottie Scheffler winners and other teed contenders, but he was not at war.
The next step for Niemann, who has a high caliber game to support his claim that he is one of the best in the world, is to start becoming a weekend factor in large championships.
Niemann understands the questions related to his fine record of the great championship and why his game has not been translated into those events. He is working to change that story and believes that while collecting great experience, his game will eventually shine there.
“Something’s something that is always in my mind,” Niemann said. “I know there is a pressure behind me performing here and not having good results in diplomas. I feel like it’s just a learning process. At the end of the day, it’s still a golf tour. Maybe I sometimes feel a little more uncomfortable in certain situations, but I feel like I’m learning to be better in those situations.
“Just just a golf tour. More than that, I can’t say anything else.”
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