Up until LIV Golf’s Adelaide event being held in Australia this week, the vast majority of chugging Cam Smith had done was out of the claret jug he won at last year’s Open Championship at St. Andrews.
Down Under, however, things are done differently.
if you listened closely, the reigning US Open champ Matt Fitzpatrick seems to be holding onto a little bitterness toward his previous two European Ryder Cup captains.
Cam Smith morphed into the Pied Piper, Greg Norman received a rock-star reception and the South Australia Premier welcomed requests for selfies as the biggest crowds seen in Australia for decades vindicated the arrival of LIV Golf Adelaide.
LIV Golf’s catchphrase is ‘Golf But Louder’ but not even LIV Golf Adelaide officials couldn’t have predicted the reception given to Ripper GC captain Cam Smith on the 12th tee during Friday’s opening round.
USA Solheim Cup Captain Stacy Lewis set the stakes for possible players on her team in her press conference Tuesday ahead of the Chevron Championship. Considering that Carlton Woods and Finca Cortesin in Spain, the Solheim’s home in 2023, both use Bermuda grass, the performance at the major is crucial to prove a case to Read more…
The winner of the 2023 Chevron Championship will have the honor of being the first to claim the title of this prestigious tournament at its new home, The Club at Carlton Woods outside of Houston. She’ll also have the satisfaction of cashing a rather impressive first-place prize money payout.
If you follow the local press, there’s a sense of genuine anticipation for the LIV Golf League’s debut in Australia this week at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide.
Earlier this week on the Golf IQ podcast we broke down a few ugly stats about regular golfers’ games. Not as a way of draining confidence from average golfers. But instead, to learn why these mistakes happen, and crucially, how to prevent them.
A study from the National Golf Foundation published earlier this year found for the first time that total off-course golf participation (27.9 million) exceeded that of on-course golfers (25.6 million) in 2022. A force behind the growing off-course movement is Topgolf, whose 80-plus venues worldwide combine tech-driven driving-range games with the food, drinks and atmosphere of a sports bar. The core of its mission is to make the game more accessible, diverse and fun.
In an interview with Sky Sports ahead of this week’s Zurich Classic, Matt Fitzpatrick didn’t go after Patrick Cantlay, but clearly the Englishman is fed up with slow play.
We’ve all had a chance to shoot a personal best and fumbled the bag on the 18th hole, usually in the form of an in-the-pocket “double” as so not to inflate the handicap.
It seemed safe to assume amateur Sam Bennett’s impressive performance at the Masters might bring about some new sponsorship opportunities as he finished out his remaining few weeks of college golf at Texas A&M. That assumption became official on Monday when T-Mobile announced a partnership with the fifth-year senior from Madisonville, Texas.
Australian Golf Digest
