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.
The week golf fans have been waiting for has finally arrived and there will be wall-to-wall coverage for everyone to savour as five Australians strive to win the iconic green jacket.
The Masters, but louder? The later part of that sentence is what LIV Golf has used in most of its marketing over the past year, insisting that it’s Saudi-backed series will be known for “golf, but louder.”
After several digs at Cameron Smith by former Fred Couples, the reigning Open Championship winner has brushed the 1992 Masters winners’ comments aside.
Cameron Smith – the reigning Open champion and World No.3 – certainly thinks the four organisations should stay out of a divide in professional golf which has seen the PGA Tour ban LIV golfers and the DP World Tour try to, before a UK court put a hold on sanctions until February 2023.
An equity stake for captains, a transfer market for players, and teams paying for all their operating costs. LIV Golf officials have shared several key components of what the Saudi Arabia-funded league’s franchise model will look like for its second season in 2023 and beyond.
Cameron Smith has been picked to face off against Phil Mickelson in the first day of the LIV Golf Teams Championship, the finale to the upstart tour’s inaugural season.
Australia’s Cameron Smith won his first Major title at the 150th Open Championship at St Andrews and now you can watch every shot from his spectacular Sunday at the Old Course.
An idea that has been bandied about by several notable members of the golf cognoscenti, among them longtime television broadcaster Gary McCord, is a call for a third men’s team matchplay event. This one would feature PGA Tour players against LIV Golf series players.
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