Cameron Smith’s Ripper GC had a Sunday to forget in Singapore as another face familiar to Aussies – American Talor Gooch – created LIV Golf history at Sentosa Golf Club.
Not even a two-and-a-half-hour weather delay could cool off Talor Gooch’s red-hot stretch of golf, as last week’s LIV Golf Adelaide winner grabbed the first-round lead for the second consecutive week.
Australia has fallen. That should be the message echoing through the corridors of PGA Tour headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach following this week’s hugely successful debut of LIV Golf Adelaide.
“Golf, But Louder” is the catchphrase. And fans at LIV Golf Adelaide pumped up the volume as American Talor Gooch turned on the afterburners with another scintillating round of 62 to establish a commanding 10-stroke lead at The Grange Golf Club.
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.
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.
A year after missing the Masters for the first time since debuting at the event in 2011, due to his world ranking plummeting outside the top 150, Jason Day is back in contention at Augusta National. While Viktor Hovland, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka each fired a 65 to take the first-round lead at seven Read more…
Five Aussies. One, a past Masters champion and the other the reigning Open Championship winner tipped to be the next Aussie winner at Augusta National. All united in their pursuit of Masters glory.
Masters tournament officials have scattered the 18 LIV golfers among the field at Augusta National and avoided any potential tense pairings with PGA Tour players for the first two rounds.
Harrison Crowe has hilariously bet his father Tony that for every birdie he makes in the Masters, his dad and the other Crowe clan at their rented Augusta house have to skol a beer.
Cameron Smith, the reigning Open champion and the highest-ranked player in the Masters field representing the LIV Golf League, found himself on shaky ground, of sorts, when he stepped on the sprawling practice facility on Monday at Augusta National Golf Club.
Cameron Smith doubled-packed this week for the Masters, and it’s not because the weather forecast looks all over the place for the four days of the tournament.
Australian Golf Digest
