Sebastian Munoz led by three shots after 36 holes at Rich Harvest Farms but couldn’t hold on to the lead, shooting 2 over in Sunday’s final round.
Meanwhile, Bryson DeChambeau went on a charge, posting nine birdies and just a single bogey to shoot an 8-under 63 to win for the second time on the LIV Golf League this season. DeChambeau finished 13 under and won by a shot over Marc Leishman and Anirban Lahiri.
Lahiri had a chance to force a playoff but missed a putt on the 18th hole.
“To be honest with you, I was actually sad,” said DeChambeau. “I really wanted him to make that so we could go battle it off in a playoff and finish it off the right way. That was the first emotion that I had.”
In August, DeChambeau won the LIV Golf Greenbrier event after he closed with a final-round 58. He joins Cam Smith with two wins in 2023. Talor Gooch leads the circuit with three wins.
In the season-long race for the Individual Champion, there’s only three golfers now who can claim that title: Gooch, Smith and DeChambeau. Smith currently leads that race with Gooch second and DeChambeau third. Smith and Gooch have mathematically clinched a spot in the top three. DeChambeau still has a shot at winning that title but could also get bumped out of the top three. Five golfers have a chance to finish in third (but they’re too far back to win the season title): Patrick Reed, Brooks Koepka, Brendan Grace, Dustin Johnson and Mito Pereira.
Koepka finished 24th in the 48-man field. He’s the lone LIV golfer headed to Rome for the Ryder Cup next week. In fact, he’s the only one of the 24 golfers on either Ryder Cup team to compete this week (Euro vice captain Edoardo Molinari did tie for 28th at the DP World Tour’s French Open).
LIV Golf Chicago was the 12th of 14 events on the 2023 schedule. LIV Golf Jeddah in Saudi Arabia is up next, Oct. 13-15. The season finale is the LIV Golf Team Championship at Doral, Oct. 20-22.
