LIV's Graeme McDowell leaves golf fans speechless: "I didn't even see it go in!"

Graeme McDowell revealed he didn't even see the ball go in the cup as he created LIV Golf history by becoming the first player to hit a second hole-in-one in the league. 

McDowell aced the par-three second hole at Sentosa Golf Club on Friday. 

It represented his second ace in the space of a week having also made a hole-in-one last Friday at LIV's stop in Hong Kong. 

The former European Ryder Cup star used a 9-iron last week and hit a 7-iron this morning.

The odds of making a hole-in-one are 12,500 to one.

Last November, an English amateur golfer made three aces in a month at odds estimated by England Golf of 1.95 trillion to one.

"I was shouting for it to go, and then some sweat came down and blurred my eyes and I didn't even see it go in," said McDowell. 

"It cost me a very expensive bottle of wine last week in Hong Kong, and I guess it's going to cost me another very expensive bottle of wine, which I look forward to."

He added: "It was a 7-iron in Hong Kong, only a 9-iron today. 

"Yeah, listen, it was nice. Cleans the scorecard up quite nicely. 

"That third tee shot is normally quite difficult, but post hole-in-one it's a lot more difficult."

Bryson DeChambeau leads at halfway stage

McDowell's three-under 70 left him on a total score of three-under overall and seven strokes adrift of leader Bryson DeChambea. 

DeChambeau made a big move up the leaderboard on Friday with a 65 and is on 10-under. 

He leads Jon Rahm, Lee Westwood, Richard T. Lee, Thomas Detry and Louis Oosthuizen by three strokes at the halfway stage. 

DeChambeau is aiming to win on LIV for the first time since last May. 

The 2024 U.S. Open champion he is taking a different approach to the sport these days. 

"Golf isn't about hitting it 400 yards," he said. "I proved that a couple years ago. 

"You've got to have a good wedge game, good putting, good iron play. So there is a balance.

"But I'm never not pursuing how to swing it faster or have it come off the face faster and then learn how to control it. 

"That's kind of my goal. I always go to how hard can I swing it, and then how do a back off of that. 

"It's just my mentality. So I'll forever be pursuing a little bit of speed as time goes on.

"This golf course, you can't swing it hard out here. 

"You can hit it far, but you have to control your ball more than you can kind of just bomb it and let it go wherever. Fairways are tight."

He added: "I'll forever be chasing speed. Hopefully the technology can catch up with where our swing speeds are going because right now, any minor mis-hit can make the ball go quite a bit off line. 

"That's why I've got what I'm using now, then working on some stuff, as well, to see if there's any improvements to be made from what I have now, and we'll see where the future takes us.

"I'm excited to unveil some special stuff here soon. I've been talking about it for a while, but we just don't have anything that's as good as it needs to be yet."

LIV Golf Singapore is the PIF-backed breakaway's fourth event of the season. 

Australia's Elvis Smylie won the curtain-raiser in Riyadh and Anthony Kim triumphed a week later in Adelaide. 

The aforementioned Rahm triumphed last week, winning for the first time since August 2024.