Tom McKibbin helped Legion XIII win the group occasion at LIV Golf Mexico Metropolis and earned $896,000 to deliver his winnings on the breakaway tour to €3.4 million.
The Newtownabbey native birdied his last gap to shut with a one-under 70 and end thirty fourth on two-over, 18 photographs behind Chile’s Joaquin Niemann.
He gained $146,000 individually and one other $750,000 as his Legion XIII claimed its second group win of the season to separate $3m.
“It feels fairly good,” McKibbin stated. “It was a troublesome week for me, however immediately, having one thing to play for and try to assist get a group win was fairly cool.
“And to be up there once more was loads of enjoyable. Hopefully, we will try this much more.”
Niemann shot a six-under 65 to say his third victory of the season and earn LIV Golf’s US Open exemption with one match to go.
“Fairly exhausting to make it extra particular than this second proper now,” world quantity 83 Niemann stated after successful by three photographs at Membership de Golf Chapultepec from Lucas Herbert and Bryson DeChambeau.
Legion XIII captain Jon Rahm completed alone in fourth on 12 below with Graeme McDowell joint seventeenth on three-under ($255,000).
Niemann’s win assured his exemption into the US Open at Oakmont, it doesn’t matter what occurs subsequent week at LIV Golf Korea, the ultimate match earlier than the exemption deadline.
He’s now set to play within the remaining three majors this season after ending joint twenty ninth ultimately month’s Masters.
“My group was asking me to enroll in the qualifier and the sectional, and I wasn’t actually into that,” Niemann stated of the US Open.
“Greater than something, I’m grateful that I’m not taking part in 36 holes on a Monday after the match.”
Zurich Basic of New Orleans winners Andrew Novak and Ben Griffin secured spots in subsequent month’s PGA Championship at Quail Hole alongside the DP World Tour’s Asian Swing prime three – Keita Nakajima, Eugenio Chacarra and Hainan Basic winner Marco Penge.
Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry and 2008 champion Padraig Harrington will likely be at Quail Hole, whereas Seamus Energy is sixty fifth within the PGA Championship factors listing and poised to make the highest 70 who qualify after this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas.
The highest 100 on this planet on Could 5 who aren’t already exempt will seemingly be named within the discipline by the PGA of America, however McKibbin is 119th.
The Holywood Golf star is exempt into The Open at Royal Portrush and may nonetheless qualify for the US Open.
