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PGA Tour of Australasia schedule unveiled

In a week where isps handa was named as the major sponsor of the australian open and hannah green confirmed her attendance at home later this year, the pga tour of australasia has also released its upcoming schedule for the summer of golf..

There will be 16 events played from October 2022 to April 2023, with the highlights of the summer being the Fortinet Australian PGA, the return of the men’s and women’s Australian Opens played concurrently on the Melbourne Sandbelt and the Tour heading back to New Zealand for the country’s Open and PGA Championships.

Starting in Western Australia at the WA PGA held at Kalgoorlie from October 13, the Tour visits two countries and five states with both metropolitan and regional venues playing host.

“We are well on our way to a growth strategy with our Tour highlighted by two co-sanctioned DP World Tour events, state PGAs, state Opens, two events back in New Zealand and then the Webex Players Series events,” PGA of Australia CEO Gavin Kirkman told reporters this week.

“The other thing that we have worked really hard on is to grow the prize pools, and as the events get announced we hope like all Tours at the moment we can continue to grow our prize pools. Our focus is on our 200 plus Tour members to create really good playing opportunities to create pathways and to have them playing on major Tours within Australia but also outside Australia.”

The growth of the Tour schedule has been much needed in Australia, where the heyday of 20 plus years ago when top names regularly came Down Under and a plentiful calendar were but a distant memory, with local players needing to head overseas to make their living.

Although those at the helm acknowledge that pathways to more lucrative circuits overseas is a primary driving factor in their mission, an increase of local playing opportunities is a key point of a five year growth plan currently at its midway point.

“The vision we set out on was a five plus year vision that was set out about two years ago, but it is something we have been working on the last couple of years now and have put a few of those building blocks in place in that time which we all know has been a difficult time to really take things forward,” Tournament Director for the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia Nick Dastey said.

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“Some of those things we really set out to do was, we weren’t happy with where our schedule was at the end of 2019 pre-pandemic and certainly the amount of events that we had on our Tour wasn’t where it needed to be.

"The amount of prize money the players had to play for wasn’t where it needed to be, and we wanted to make some real changes to that and really start to one concentrate on increasing the amount of playing opportunities or events on our Tour that were available to our players and the prize money, but a real focus on the pathways and where we wanted to go with the opportunities for our players to get overseas Tours and certainly the PGA Tour and to the DP World Tour.”

“The vision we set out on was a five plus year vision that was set out about two years ago, but it is something we have been working on the last couple of years now ... we weren’t happy with where our schedule was at the end of 2019 pre-pandemic."  - Nick Dastey.

Dastey noted an aim of one day having 22-25 events on the calendar, with the bigger event prize pools to also grow from the current $2 million on offer at the PGA and $1.7 million at the Australian Open. As well as more larger events being part of the schedule.

One other area of change will be the switch from a monetary based Order of Merit back to a points system, which will make the challenge for three DP World Tour cards on offer via the season long standings less of a result from one good week at either of the country’s national championships. Players will also be required to play four events to earn a place on the Order of Merit standings at the end of the season.

“Last year was a unique year with the one major tournament and certainly it could be skewed in that way, but we will be moving to a points system and we have conveyed that with our membership,” Dastey said.

“We have a few details we are finalising, and we will go through but we will move to points. We have done a hell of a lot of modelling on that and worked very closely with the TPC and the playing group in general on that over time.

“By moving to points, and also having three plus major events, that will be less skewed in that way and certainly performance in the smaller events around the country will make a difference to your final season end points position.”

2022/2023 PGA Tour of Australasia Schedule

10-16 October: CKB WA PGA, presented by TX Civil & Logistics, Kalgoorlie Golf Course, $200,000 17-23 October: WA Open, The Western Australia Golf Club, $162,500 7-13 November: VIC PGA, Moonah Links Resort, $200,000 14-20 November: Queensland PGA, Nudgee Golf Club, $200,000 21-28 November: Fortinet Australian PGA Championship, Royal Queensland Golf Club, $2,000,000 29 November-4 December: ISPS HANDA Australian Open, Victoria and Kingston Heath Golf Clubs, $1,700,000 5-11 December: Gippsland Super 6, Warragul Country Club, $175,000 23-29 January: TPS Victoria hosted by Geoff Ogilvy, Rosebud Country Club, $200,000 30 Jan-5 February: TPS Murray River in honour of Jarrod Lyle, Cobram-Barooga Golf Club, $200,000 6-12 February: VIC Open, TBA, TBA 13-19 February: TPS Sydney presented by Webex hosted by Braith Anasta, Bonnie Doon Golf Club, $200,000 20-26 February: TPS Hunter Valley hosted by Jan Stephenson and Peter O’Malley, Oak Cypress Lakes Resort, $200,000 27 February-5 March: NZ Open Presented by Sky Sport, Millbrook Resort, $1,400,000 6-12 March: NZ PGA Championship, TBA, $400,000 13-19 March: Play Today NSW Open, TBA, $400,000 Late March: Season Finale, TBA, $200,000

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Sport Hannah Green moves into world top 10, surpasses Minjee Lee to become Australia's top-ranked golfer

Five-time LPGA Tour winner Hannah Green has entered the world's top 10 for the first time after overtaking Minjee Lee as Australia's top-ranked golfer.

Hannah Green has taken a giant stride towards sealing another Olympics spot, surging past Minjee Lee to become Australia's top-ranked women's golfer for the first time.

Green's commanding successful defence of her LA Championship title, her second LPGA Tour win of the year and third inside 12 months, has sent the West Australian from 18th to No.8 in the world.

Her Perth stablemate Lee dropped three positions to ninth in the new standings released in the US on Monday (Tuesday AEST).

Green's rise not only elevated the former major winner into the top 10 for the first time, a goal she's been chasing for years, but also almost certainly secures the 27-year-old a berth on Australia's Games team for Paris 2024.

Green and Lee wore the green and gold in Tokyo and now look shoo-ins to also fly the Australian flag in France in August.

The two highest-ranked women's and men's players as of June 17 will earn spots.

While Green remains wary of her talented younger compatriots, the reality is world No.82 Grace Kim — who collapsed in LA at the weekend after enjoying a four-shot halfway lead — or Gabriela Ruffels (83) or Steph Kyriacou (88) would need to win the US Open in early June plus another big event to have any hope of climbing above Green and Lee.

"The Olympics have definitely been on my mind," Green said while savouring her fifth LPGA Tour win.

"Obviously we still have six or seven weeks until the team is announced, so still a lot that can happen between now and then.

"Now that I've had two wins in the season, obviously this jumps me (into) the top 10 in the world and solidifies my spot.

"Grace unfortunately didn't have weekend she wanted, but I know she's capable of playing really good golf.

"Gabi Ruffels, Steph Kyriacou, Karis Davidson, they all are obviously striving to be the best they can be.

"I don't want to assume I'm on the team. Still fighting for the second spot."

After joining American world No.1 Nelly Korda as only the second player to win multiple LPGA Tour events in 2024, Green says she hopes to continue inspiring Australia's next generation of golfers.

She reckons getting out on course, rather than loading up balls on driving ranges, is the key to developing a youngster's game.

"With golf and life, it's always make sure that you enjoy yourself," Green said.

"There are some tough times when you play golf. You're not always in this position I'm in right now with a trophy right next to me.

"Making sure you're enjoying yourself, not being too hard on yourself, having fun. That makes a big difference if you're just getting into golf or starting golf.

"Go play as much golf as possible. Don't beat balls on the range all day. In golf, you're not hitting off a perfect surface every time.

"Sometimes even if you hit it perfectly on the range, when you get out there you might not really love the tee shot, whatever it may be. Might not hit it perfect.

"So going out and playing as much as possible if you can is also a nice thing to do."

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Brendan Steele wins LIV Golf Adelaide tournament from fast-finishing Louis Oosthuizen

Individual Champion Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC poses with the trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Individual Champion Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC kisses the trophy after the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC hits his shot from the third tee during the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

Brendan Steele of HyFlyers GC hits his shot from the first tee during the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at the Grange Golf Club on Sunday, April 28, 2024, in Adelaide, Australia. (Chris Trotman/LIV Golf via AP)

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ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Three-time PGA Tour winner Brendan Steele held off a fast finishing Louis Oosthuizen to win the LIV Golf Adelaide tournament at The Grange Golf Club by one stoke.

The 41-year-old Steele shot a final round 68 Sunday for a 54-hole total of 18-under 198 to earn his first victory since he won his second Safeway Open in 2017 on the PGA Tour.

Steele had a streak of five consecutive birdies early in the round, before some putting jitters appeared in his back nine to open the door for a fast finishing pack of challenges including Oosthuizen, and former previous Masters winners Charl Schwartzel (64) and Jon Rahm (64).

“Yeah, I was telling myself that I knew there was going to be hard moments today regardless of the result and that I just needed to get back in there and start playing with freedom again,” Steele said moments after winning.

“And, and I was able to hit some good shots after that and write the show.”

South Africa’s Oosthuizen shot 65 to finish second at 17-under 199, and had drawn within one stroke of Steele late in Sunday’s final round, only for the American to make some clutch pars in the final holes to clinch victory.

Oosthuizen’s compatriot Schwartzel and Rahm were among a group of five players at 16-under 200, with Joaquin Niemann (66), Andy Ogletree (65) and Dean Burgmester (67) in a tie for third.

Former world No.1 Rahm had an eagle and six birdies in his 8-under 64 but had left too much ground to catch up on Steele on the final day to capture his first title since joining the LlV tour in December.

Last year’s winner Talor Gooch shot 70 and finshed in a tie for 26th at 10-under.

Some of the LIV Golf’s biggest names were also off the pace this week, including Brooks Koepka (nine-under), Dustin Johnson (nine-under), Phil Mickelson (seven-under) and Sergio Garcia (six under).

Australian team Ripper GC, led by local favorite Cameron Smith, with Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert, won the teams format on the second playoff hole against the South African-based team, Stingers GC, to the delight of another large and boisterous crowd at The Grange course on Sunday.

The LIV tour remains in the Asia region next week for the May 3-5 Singapore event at the Sentosa Golf Club. Then there’s a month-long break before resuming in Houston from June 7-9.

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Brendan Steele wins LIV Golf Adelaide tournament from fast-finishing Louis Oosthuizen

ADELAIDE, Australia — Three-time PGA Tour winner Brendan Steele held off a fast finishing Louis Oosthuizen to win the LIV Golf Adelaide tournament at The Grange Golf Club by one stoke.

The 41-year-old Steele shot a final round 68 Sunday for a 54-hole total of 18-under 198 to earn his first victory since he won his second Safeway Open in 2017 on the PGA Tour.

Steele had a streak of five consecutive birdies early in the round, before some putting jitters appeared in his back nine to open the door for a fast finishing pack of challenges including Oosthuizen, and former previous Masters winners Charl Schwartzel (64) and Jon Rahm (64).

“Yeah, I was telling myself that I knew there was going to be hard moments today regardless of the result and that I just needed to get back in there and start playing with freedom again,” Steele said moments after winning.

“And, and I was able to hit some good shots after that and write the show.”

South Africa’s Oosthuizen shot 65 to finish second at 17-under 199, and had drawn within one stroke of Steele late in Sunday’s final round, only for the American to make some clutch pars in the final holes to clinch victory.

Oosthuizen’s compatriot Schwartzel and Rahm were among a group of five players at 16-under 200, with Joaquin Niemann (66), Andy Ogletree (65) and Dean Burgmester (67) in a tie for third.

Former world No.1 Rahm had an eagle and six birdies in his 8-under 64 but had left too much ground to catch up on Steele on the final day to capture his first title since joining the LlV tour in December.

Last year’s winner Talor Gooch shot 70 and finshed in a tie for 26th at 10-under.

Some of the LIV Golf’s biggest names were also off the pace this week, including Brooks Koepka (nine-under), Dustin Johnson (nine-under), Phil Mickelson (seven-under) and Sergio Garcia (six under).

Australian team Ripper GC, led by local favorite Cameron Smith, with Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert, won the teams format on the second playoff hole against the South African-based team, Stingers GC, to the delight of another large and boisterous crowd at The Grange course on Sunday.

The LIV tour remains in the Asia region next week for the May 3-5 Singapore event at the Sentosa Golf Club. Then there’s a month-long break before resuming in Houston from June 7-9.

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Golf Australia signs deal with LIV in first partnership with Saudi-backed tour

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LIV Golf has struck a deal to help fund Golf Australia’s junior program, in the first formal relationship between the steward of the game in Australia and the Saudi Arabia-backed entity.

The arrangement – which involves LIV and its Ripper GC franchise of Australian players led by Cameron Smith – has been in negotiations for weeks.

A formal announcement is expected in the coming days to coincide with the LIV tournament in Adelaide, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald .

The deal sees LIV and Ripper GC make it cheaper for some children to access My Golf, the junior program run by GA.

GA also has staff working on a My Golf activation in Adelaide this week alongside the LIV tournament promotions.

In 2022-23, 33,000 children participated in My Golf, according to GA’s annual report, a figure that grew 22% on the previous year.

The cost of My Golf varies depending on the location and type of program. A single after school session can cost less than $50, but a regular hit over a school term is priced in the hundreds of dollars.

GA’s decision to accept the subsidies from LIV is the first major step by Australia’s golf establishment towards the upstart tour.

The PGA of Australia (PGAA), the body representing tournament and club professionals and organiser of the Australasian Tour, is still aligned with LIV rival the DP World Tour.

As manager of the game in Australia GA’s remit is on building participation and the body receives funding from the federal government.

However, GA and the PGAA have largely combined operations, adding a layer of complexity to the deal.

GA’s chief executive, James Sutherland, said last month Australia looked at LIV differently from other parts of the world.

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“There’s clearly an ‘anti’ or a conservative sentiment about the Saudis in the US, and the further east you go on a world map from America, the more moderate the views are,” he said.

LIV commissioner Greg Norman said on Wednesday he was “very proud” of investments his organisation was making into golf generally.

“If it wasn’t for LIV, these additional investment dollars going into the sport would never have happened,” he said.

In excess of 80,000 people are expected to attend the LIV Adelaide tournament this weekend.

Norman has described the Adelaide event as the “benchmark” for LIV worldwide. LIV golf is funded by Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund.

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Here's What Each Player Will Bank at LIV Golf's Adelaide Event

LIV Golf returned to Australia, where it offered another $25 million purse. Here's the final breakdown of payouts.

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LIV Golf is back in Australia this week for the 2024 LIV Golf Adelaide event. Per usual, LIV has put up a $25 million purse, with $20 million for the individual competition and $5 million for the team event. The individual champion will bank $4 million.

LIV Golf Adelaide again was LIV Golf's most raucous event, though full water bottles being thrown at caddies isn't worth celebrating. Still, the home crowd was treated to the all-Aussie Ripper GC winning the team competition in LIV Golf's first team playoff. Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Lucas Herbert will split the $3 million team prize.

On the individual side, Brendan Steele of the HyFlyers won for the first time in LIV Golf, shooting a 4-under 68 in the final round to hold off Louis Oosthuizen, who shot 65 but came up one shot short. A tie for third included Jon Rahm, who shot a final-round 64.

Here are the full payouts for LIV Golf's 2024 Australia event.

2024 LIV Golf Adelaide Final Payouts

WIN. Brendan Steele, 18 under: $4 million

2. Louis Oosthuizen, 17 under: $2.25 million

T3. Charl Schwartzel, Jon Rahm, Andy Ogletree, Joaquin Niemann, Dean Burmester; 16 under: $920,000

8. Mito Pereira, 15 under: $525,000

9. Abraham Ancer, Brooks Koepka, Matt Jones, Jinichiro Kozuma, Danny Lee; 14 under: $385,500

T14. Martin Kaymer, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Thomas Pieters, Anirban Lahiri, Tyrrell Hatton, Cameron Smith; 13 under: $275,000

21. Cameron Tringale, 12 under: $230,000

T22. Caleb Surratt, Richard Bland, Patrick Reed, Carlos Ortiz; 11 under: $206,250

T26. Adrian Meronk, Matthew Wolff, Bryson DeChambeau, Talor Gooch, Charles Howell III; 10 under: $180,000

T31. Paul Casey, Pat Perez, Dustin Johnson; 9 under: $160,000

T34. Kevin Na, Lee Westwood, Peter Uihlein, Bubba Watson; 8 under: $146,250

T38. Sebastian Munoz, Phil Mickelson; 7 under: $138,750

T40. Sergio Garcia, Branden Grace, David Puig, Kalle Samooja, Sam Horsfield; 6 under: $130,500

45. Eugenio Chacarra, 5 under: $125,000

T46. Graeme McDowell, Sam Vincent; 4 under: $123,750

48. Harold Varner III, 3 under: $120,000

49. Jason Kokrak, 2 under: $60,000

50. Kieran Vincent, 1 under: $60,000

51. Henrik Stenson, 3 over: $60,000

T52: Hudson Swafford, Ian Poulter; 4 over: $50,000

54. Anthony Kim, 6 over: $50,000

2024 LIV Golf Team Event Prize Money

WIN: Ripper GC (Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Marc Leishman), playoff: $3 million

2. Stinger GC (Louis Oosthuizen, Dean Burmester, Branden Grace, Charl Schwartzel), playoff runner-up: $1.5 million

3. HyFlyers GC (Phil Mickelson, Brendan Steele, Cameron Tringale, Andy Ogletree), 48 under: $500,000

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Here’s why Greg Norman ‘feels sorry’ for LIV Golf’s critics

Norman had words for critics after a well-attended LIV event.

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It was a festive three days at LIV Golf Adelaide , in Australia, with rowdy crowds and record-setting attendance for the breakaway circuit. And when the final putts dropped and the throngs dispersed, the celebration kept on going, turning into a pity party.

“I actually feel sorry for them,” LIV CEO Greg Norman said.

The objects of his sympathy, Norman said, in an interview with Australian Golf Digest , were LIV Golf’s critics, a benighted bunch in Norman’s view.

“Vindication is not the right word,” he said. “It’s the ignorance of others who simply didn’t understand what we were trying to do.” 

Norman’s comments came in the wake of an event that drew more than 94,000 fans to the Grange Golf Club , the most for a LIV Golf tournament since the league’s launch nearly two years ago.

Pleased by the numbers, Norman said that he was also grateful for the chance to give fans in his home country the kind of sporting entertainment they deserved. 

“The support Australia gave me during my own playing career for decades was something I have never forgotten,” he said. “It’s why I brought LIV Golf back home. I did it for them. The people have well and truly spoken.”

For all the big names it has poached from the PGA Tour, and despite the bottomless bankroll behind it, LIV has hardly killed it on the ratings front with its team format, 54-hole tournaments. But in relative terms, Australia has been a receptive market. Last year’s event at Adelaide, which drew some 77,000 fans, was the best-attended LIV tournament of 2023.

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In its short life, the event has gained a reputation as LIV’s answer to the Tour’s famously raucous Waste Management Phoenix Open . Though Adelaide draws nowhere near the same size crowds, its spectators have shown a similar affinity for non-traditional golf behavior. This week, for instance, at the par-3 12th, which is known as the “watering hole” for its loud and well-lubricated atmosphere, Lucas Herbert’s caddie was struck in the back of the head by a water bottle flung by a fan after Herbert drained a birdie putt. The caddie, Nick Pugh, was not injured, but the incident was a sobering reminder of how quickly rowdy conduct can get out of hand.

By tournament’s end, the crowd had other reasons to get excited. While American Brendan Steele won the individual competition, the team portion of the event went to Ripper GC, captained by Australian star Cameron Smith. His squad won in a playoff over Stinger GC. 

Not everyone was thrilled with that result, or the fan behavior that accompanied it. On the first hole of the playoff, Dean Burmester of Stinger grew visibly frustrated with the partisan crowd, which cheered when he left a shot in a green-side bunker. Earlier in the day, Burmester had reportedly told the crowd to shut up with a command punctuated by an expletive.

None of which appeared to weigh on Norman, who, in the afterglow of the proceedings, said that pity wasn’t all that he was feeling.

“I’m feeling extremely proud right now,” he said. “With what we’ve gone through over the past 16 months, both as a league and what I’ve copped personally, the hatred, this makes it all worthwhile.”

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LIV Golf not going anywhere; “totally separate” from PGA Tour, PIF negotiations

Speaking ahead of LIV Golf’s Adelaide event in his native Australia, Greg Norman offered his perspective on the state of the game.

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Since LIV Golf launched in the spring of 2022, golf has been in flux, with the game’s best players competing on two separate circuits.

Many other issues exist within this reality, too. Money, equity, and, given who LIV Golf’s beneficiary is, moral issues and geopolitical ramifications have all bled into the sport.

Nevertheless, in an attempt to rectify this, PGA Tour brass and the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) established a framework agreement on Jun. 6, 2023 , that not only shocked the sporting world but also set a pathway for the two sides to come together and re-establish a unified golf tour. Negotiations have occurred since then, but a finalized deal remains far away.

Yet, LIV Golf did not appear within that framework agreement then, and they do not have any influence on those negotiations now, according to LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman .

“I would love to give you insight, but I don’t have any. We at LIV are totally separate from that part of the negotiation,” Norman said in South Australia ahead of this week’s LIV Golf Adelaide event.

“We at LIV are a standalone company being invested in by the same investor interested in the game of golf. Our investor wanted to invest in LIV because he loved the opportunity of the franchise model, what he could do with it, and how we could build it out on a global platform.”

Since last June, Norman has continued to champion LIV Golf’s cause, indicating on numerous occasions that its strength as a start-up league has never been stronger.

Nobody knows how LIV will look or how it will fit into professional golf’s new structure should the PGA Tour and the PIF strike a deal.

But Norman remains as confident in LIV Golf as he ever has. He said he received numerous compliments at Augusta National , where he lingered among the patrons at this year’s Masters Tournament . Norman said dozens of people approached him there and told him they love what he and LIV Golf have accomplished.

“The support, the recognition, the comments that were made, it was almost unanimous for three straight days walking around with people,” Norman said.

“To see it and to hear it and to hear the comments they made about what’s happening to the game of golf and the go that LIV has brought to the game of golf, it was very, very strong for me. It was a very powerful three days.”

Norman, who envisioned a global golf tour in the mid-1990s, has seen that dream become a reality through LIV. He has helped bring golf to different places around the world often neglected by the PGA Tour and other major tours, such as Singapore, Thailand, and his native Australia.

In its first full year of operation last year, the event in Adelaide welcomed 77,000 fans, making it LIV’s most successful event of 2023. The “Watering Hole,” which has drawn comparisons to TPC Scottsdale’s famous par-3 16th , was a smashing success, too.

Over 100,000 spectators are expected at the South Australia tournament this week.

“This event here from last to this year is the benchmark for LIV,” Norman said.

“We get all the other events, 13 events around the world, to take a look at what we’ve delivered here, what Adelaide has delivered, what the state government has delivered, and what the local community and the region have delivered, and you go. It can be done.”

Norman’s focus remains on LIV, not on the negotiations between the PIF and the PGA Tour.

“I don’t know what’s going on over there,” Norman added.

“I really don’t want to know what’s going on over there because we are so fixated on growing and developing and building out what LIV is today and looking and doing our schedule for 2025 and going into 2026. Our responsibility is to look after our people, our players, and where we want to go.”

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be sure to check out @_PlayingThrough for more golf coverage. You can follow him on Twitter @jack_milko as well.

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