Cameron Smith and his all-Australian Ripper GC team were were treated like touring rockstars by the 35,000-strong crowds on day one of LIV Golf Adelaide, but it was qualifying school graduate Jinichiro Kozuma who upstaged the home favourites with a scintillating round.
Anthony Kim didn’t touch a club for seven years during his publicised absence from golf. He didn’t touch social media, either. In fact, he wasn’t on it until recently. He had no idea that online, his whereabouts had morphed from curiosity to bigfoot levels.
Fans can now attend the highly anticipated tournament dressed in League or team supporter gear with LIV Golf merchandise now available for purchase online – a first for fans in Australia and New Zealand.
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.
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.