Having already enjoyed a win and playing in two major championships in 2025, Marc Leishman is about to turn his attention to Australia and three tournaments in three states.
Ripper GC’s defence of their LIV Golf Team Championship crown ended early during the finale in Michigan, with the all-South African Stinger GC exacting revenge in a clash that carried echoes of their playoff heartbreak at LIV Golf Adelaide last year.
Cameron Smith and his long-time caddie, Sam Pinfold, took part in a round-the-world putting challenge at LIV Golf Team Championship in Michigan that involved plenty of Australia-New Zealand sledging.
While Sebastian Munoz and Jon Rahm split the spotlight at LIV Golf Indianapolis, the former winning the tournament and the latter clinching the overall season-long individual championship, Australia’s contingent experienced a mixed bag.
Niemann has two more individual LIV events to close out the season, for which all signs point towards him winning the season-long points race. He holds a huge lead over Jon Rahm.
Cameron Smith is rejuvenated after strong showing at LIV Golf UK that was only held back by rustiness in his usually elite short game, but the major winner is hungry to finish off the LIV season strong before making his way back to the Australian summer of golf.
Australia’s Ripper GC has kept itself within striking distance of a team podium heading into the final round of LIV Golf UK, although team members Marc Leishman, Cameron Smith, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert likely left themselves too far back of runaway leader Joaquin Niemann at JCB Golf and Country Club in England.
Cameron Smith says a thoroughly disappointing campaign at the majors has fired him up to finish the second half of the year with a bang, starting at this week’s LIV Golf UK tournament.
Adam Scott can cement his legacy as an icon of Australian golf and take a place among the game’s greats after playing his way into the final group for championship Sunday at the US Open.
Seldom is a player who joined the LIV Golf League so unequivocally positive about making the leap into the golf unknown, joining an upstart tour that offered unprecedented riches and unanticipated question marks. But while Leishman has missed major-championship golf, he otherwise has no regrets or recriminations since he went to the land of shotgun starts and team standings.
An even-par 70 was enough to have Adam Scott just outside the top 10 as the best players in the world were subjected to golf’s toughest test on day one of the US Open at Oakmont Country Club. RELATED: Cam Smith explains how he pulled off one of Oakmont’s most impossible shots Tied for 18th Read more…
Battle ready after street fighting his way through 38 holes of final qualifying, Marc Leishman hopes a combination of a special connection to Oakmont Country Club and a confident driver will help his quest to become the first Australian professional to win a tournament at the famed Pittsburgh course.
Joaquin Niemann almost toyed with his peers at LIV Golf Virginia, allowing veteran major champions like Phil Mickelson, Bubba Watson and Graeme McDowell to wind back the clock and feel those competitive juices again.
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