Talor Gooch is a winner again on the LIV Golf circuit after triumphing at Valderrama to become a four-time winner on the Saudi-backed tour.
Gooch has been stale since winning three times in 2023 but is widely regarded as one of the best players on the LIV tour outside the superstars like Bryson DeChambeau.
In the end, Gooch held off a charge from home favourite Jon Rahm to get the job done in Spain and make it four LIV wins.
However, it wasn’t the plain sailing day that Gooch initially had in mind. Leading by six from Rahm last night, the American allowed Rahm to claw into his lead.
Indeed, going down the final hole, Gooch needed a birdie to get the win and faced with a tricky iron shot, had to execute under pressure.
And execute he did, as he played a stunner onto the green to set up the win.
Now, according to Gooch himself, it was a shot that massively impressed his caddy.
What Talor Gooch’s caddy told him about his iron shot that won him LIV Golf Andalucia
Playing under pressure and delivering in the biggest and most pressured moments is what separates the best players in the world from others.
On this occasion, it was Gooch’s chance to shine as he produced a shot for the ages.
In fact, such was the quality of the shot, that his caddy told him it was one of the greatest iron shots he’d ever seen.
“Yeah, I thought he [Rahm] had made birdie. On the last hole I’m sitting there thinking I need to make birdie to win this thing,” Gooch admitted.
“I told Mel walking off that, I said, was that any good, and he just told me off the green, it’s probably the best iron shot I’ve ever seen. It was not the shot you want to have coming into the last green, but we took advantage of it.”
The win means Gooch is now the outright third best when it comes to LIV wins overall.
He still has some way to catch Joaquin Niemann’s six, while Brooks Koepka also sits on five wins just ahead of him.
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