After an agonisingly long wait for 2024 tournament dates to be locked in, LIV Golf Adelaide officials are now bracing for a complete sell-out after an early rush for tickets has all but exhausted their hospitality allocation.
The announcement was made this morning at Grange Golf Club, which returns as host venue while excitement builds for the second installment of the tournament.
Greg Norman has hinted golf fans can expect a larger, louder and even more boisterous Party Hole when LIV Golf Adelaide returns to the South Australian capital in the new year.
Adelaide’s Grange Golf Club has refuted claims made in recent days about the state of its two golf courses and supposed member disatisfaction with the club’s hosting of the inaugural Australian LIV Golf tournament last month.
It’s not as if back-to-back LIV Golf winner Talor Gooch is hurting for money right now, but losing a heck of a lot to taxes (from a country you don’t live in) is never fun.
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.
In its debut season last year, LIV Golf managed to sign a list of PGA Tour stars from Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and reigning British Open champion, Australia’s Cameron Smith. The rival league was always going to turn its attention to the biggest stars in women’s golf. Could that be happening sooner rather than later?
Greg Norman has doubled-down on his commitment to LIV Golf on the eve of its Australian debut, telling a packed media conference “we are not going anywhere. LIV is here for a long, long period of time”.
Feeding off home crowd support, local course knowledge and familiar turf conditions are reasons to believe the Cameron Smith-led Ripper GC can break through for a first team victory when LIV Golf makes it Australian debut in Adelaide on Friday.
With just eight days remaining before the inaugural LIV Golf event in Australia, two of our nation’s most prominent golfers talk about what lies ahead in Adelaide.
Australian Golf Digest
