Marc Leishman has no ‘regret’ for Liv Golf despite the big drought

Marc Leishman has not had this moment for three years. The last time Australian played the big championship golf, he was leaving the old course in St. Andrews after a lost cut in the 2022 open championship.

His decision to sign with Liv Golf meant that he would risk entering the largest stages of golf. He knew that joining the Breakaway League, which came with a large signature bonus, would have the consequences with which it would live. The six-time PGA Tour winner, who lost the 2015 Open Championship against Zach Johnson in a Play Off, had to weigh the opportunities before him with financial livies and from a family perspective-against the opportunity he would say goodbye to the big championship golf if he was unable to qualify for two “open” diplomas.

Leishman lost all diplomas in 2023 and 2024. He did not receive a special invitation to Masters or PGA Championship this season, but he survived a play off three-to-two at a final qualifying event to mark it We open ticket and make his return to the big championship golf.

Despite the nearly three-year interruption, Leishman does not regret the decision he made to be thrown at the Upsart League. In fact, he can be the happiest player in Liv Golf.

“Never know anything,” Leishman said on Saturday when asked if he worried that he would never return to diplomas. “Life is quite uncertain sometimes. Of course, I want to be here. These are the biggest tests in Golf. I knew it would be a chance when I signed with Liv. I knew it could have been one of the negatives. But the positives so much overcome the negatives for me.

“You ask yourself, of course, if you are going to get into them again, but of course there is no regret because, as I said, my life is as good as it has ever been.

The big return of the leishman championship saw him make the cut OakmontA course where he finished T18 in the US Open 2016, and shot a 2-nine-par 68 in the third round on Saturday to move on to the first 20 places. Won his first Liv event At the beginning of this year in Doral in Liv Miami. He also won his way to the 2025 open championship at Royal Portrush due to a T3 conclusion in Australian Open.

Leishman, who claims to have found professional and personal happiness after transferring to Liv Golf, claims that mixing Liv’s talent and the easiest schedule has led him to become a better golf player. (For the context: For Datagolf, Leishman is winning 0.41 round blows this year in Liv Golf. This ranks 16th in Liv. In 2019, his best season in PGA Tour, he won 1.19 per round, which was ranked 24th.)

“Feels good,” Leishman told the claim at Oakmont. “There is nothing wrong to oppose in a major. It’s spent a while, but as I said, I’ve played a really good golf. We play against the fields really, really strong every week in Liv, and I think making me work more not only in my golf game, but my body and my head, and that I am giving myself more. me.

“I’ve probably played some of my best golf of my career this year,” Leishman added. “I think the type of loan schedule to be able to work in your game between tournaments, and I’ve been able to really prepare for this tournament.”

Leishman will come out on Sunday at Oakmont looking to end in the top four and win a ticket in the next Major race while playing Shotgun begins as a member of Ripper GC.

While the weak Australian jumped around Oakmont this week, it was a reminder that the lost talent in the golf fracture goes deeper than Jon Rahms and Bryson Dechambeaus. Leishman is a multi-time winner PGA Tour with the three 10 best in Masters and the Open Championship. He used to be the 12th Ranguard player in the world.

Now, he plays 14 times a year under the Ripper GC flag and has not been present in big championships until this week. All while the professional golf world is full of “can have” and “what ifs”, with disappointments and regret.

Marc Leishman has none of them, and that will remain if he shoots 66 or 80 Sunday at Oakmont. He made his choice and is pleased with his decisions. In life, and in golf, things move just ahead.

“As I said, my game is feeling well. My head is in a good place, too. Life is just good at the moment.”