South Africa’s Dean Burmester sank a clutch birdie putt on Sunday’s first playoff hole to clinch the LIV Golf Chicago individual title.

Burmester won his second LIV Golf individual title after defeating Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm and rising Fireballs GC star Josele Ballester.

The South African also helped Stinger GC end their drought of 31 consecutive regular-season tournaments without a win.

“The moment after the emotion of trying to win a golf tournament, there’s nothing sweeter than that,” Burmester said.

“Then to have these two boys do it right behind me, all three of us birdie the playoff hole, is special.

“Read it right to left and it went right to left and then went right and lipped in.

“I was halfway through a fist pump and then had to pause and have a second go at it.”

TEAM SCORES:

1. STINGER GC -17 (Grace 67, Oosthuizen 67, Burmester 71, Schwartzel 72; Rd. 3 score: -7)

2. TORQUE GC -17 (Niemann 67, Muñoz 68, Ortiz 68, Pereira 69; Rd. 3 score: -12)

PLAYOFF: Stinger -2 (Grace -1, Schwartzel -1) def. Torque -1 (Ortiz -1, Niemann E)

T3. 4ACES GC -15 (Varner III 65, Pieters 67, Reed 69, Johnson 72; Rd. 3 score: -11)

T3. FIREBALLS GC -15 (Ancer 69, Ballester 69, Puig 70, Garcia 71; Rd. 3 score: -5)

T5. LEGION XIII -7 (Surratt 66, McKibbin 69, Rahm 69, Hatton 74; Rd. 3 score: -6)

T5. CRUSHERS GC -7 (Casey 69, Howell III 69, DeChambeau 74, Lahiri 75; Rd. 3 score: +3)

7. RANGEGOATS GC -2 (Uihlein 67, Watson 67, Wolff 72, Campbell 74; Rd. 3 score: -4)

T8 SMASH GC +1 (Koepka 69, Kokrak 69, Gooch 70, McDowell 74; Rd. 3 score: -2)

T8. RIPPER GC +1 (Smith 69, Leishman 70, Herbert 72, Jones 74; Rd. 3 score: +1)

10. HYFLYERS GC +6 (Tringale 68, Ogletree 72, Mickelson 73, Steele 73; Rd. 3 score: +2)

11. MAJESTICKS GC +9 (Westwood 68, Stenson 69, Poulter 70, Horsfield 72; Rd.32 score: -5)

12. CLEEKS GC +9 (Bland 71, Kaymer 71, Meronk 71, Kjettrup 76; Rd. 3 score: +5)

13. IRON HEADS GC +17 (Na 69, Jang 72, Kozuma 73, Lee 76; Rd. 3 score: +6)

Wild Cards: Kim 66, C. Lee 69

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