{"id":37011,"date":"2026-03-20T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=37011"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:34:04","slug":"dechmbeau-leads-liv-golf-sa-going-into-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2026\/03\/20\/dechmbeau-leads-liv-golf-sa-going-into-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dechmbeau leads LIV Golf SA going into weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37014\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-20-at-19.04.01-770x727.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-20-at-19.04.01-770x727.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-20-at-19.04.01-768x725.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-20-at-19.04.01.jpeg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Backpagepix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau will take the lead into the weekend at the LIV Golf tournament at Steyn City.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one fired a second round six-under-par 65 on Friday, adding to his opening 63, to sit at 14-under after two rounds of the first LIV Golf event on African soil.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"642\">DeChambeau holds a two-shot lead over Spain\u2019s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">David Puig<\/span><\/span>, who shot a second round 64 to go with his opening 66, while South Africa\u2019s <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Branden Grace<\/span><\/span> remains firmly in contention.<\/p>\n<p>Grace\u2019s second round included six birdies and, along with fellow South African players, drew strong support from thousands of fans at Steyn City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what dreams are made of,&#8221; Grace said in an interview after his round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the best day I\u2019ve experienced on a golf course in South Africa. What a day, just phenomenal, it\u2019s what we (the South African players on the LIV Golf tour) dreamed it would be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The closest to this (experience) is the Presidents Cup, but this is a notch up on that,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Grace said he was very much in the title race and needed to stay focused over the next two days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m trying to win this thing. I\u2019m going to need to keep going after shots,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">\ud83e\udd81 Lion&#8217;s D\u0336e\u0336n\u0336 Dean<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LIVGolfSouthAfrica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LIVGolfSouthAfrica<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthernGuards?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SouthernGuards<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzLTLKBjtE\">pic.twitter.com\/PzLTLKBjtE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LIV Golf (@livgolf_league) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/livgolf_league\/status\/2035017660346360108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Written by: Ntsako Mukhari<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryson DeChambeau will take the lead into the weekend at the LIV Golf tournament at Steyn City. The world number one fired a second round six-under-par 65 on Friday, adding to his opening 63, to sit at 14-under after two rounds of the first LIV Golf event on African soil. ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3098,3094,3097,3096,3099,3100,3093,3101,3095],"class_list":["post-37011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-branden-grace","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-david-puig","tag-golf","tag-golf-leaderboard","tag-golf-tournament","tag-liv-golf","tag-liv-golf-sa","tag-steyn-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-20-at-19.04.01.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37015,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37011\/revisions\/37015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}