LIV Golf confirms host course for first Australian tournament

After months of hypothesis, LIV Golf is lastly headed down underneath.

The upstart league confirmed experiences on Monday morning that it’s in settlement to host its first-ever Australian occasion within the South Australian Province of Adelaide within the spring of 2023.

The Grange Club, a Greg Norman-redesigned course that was additionally the positioning of one among Norman’s first skilled victories, would be the course to host LIV’s maiden voyage. Norman, LIV’s appearing CEO and commissioner, is a local Australian whose long-stated need to deliver skilled golf to the continent served as a key motive behind LIV Golf’s preliminary formation.

“From the beginning of my family’s journey to Australia on my father’s side via Port Lincoln, to my first professional win as a young 21-year-old Queenslander at the 1976 West Lakes Classic, it is only fitting to be bringing @livgolfinv to South Australia’s @grangegolfclub in 2023,” Norman shared in an Instagram post. “There is massive potential for Australia to play a bigger role in golf, and we at #LIVGolf couldn’t be more excited to showcase Adelaide for our league’s debut year.”

(Ed. Note: LIV Golf is coming into its second season in 2023, however its officers have referred to 2022 as a “beta test,” making 2023 the league’s first “official” season.)

The information of LIV’s first occasion in Norman’s residence nation comes after every week fueled by rumors about Norman’s potential exit because the tour’s appearing head (the league has denied such claims). The 67-year-old main champion has helped steward the controversial league via a tenuous opening 12 months regardless of at-times heavy criticism from the skin world, however his efforts are judged finally by Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the chairman of the Saudi Golf Federation and LIV Golf’s principal financier.

LIV Golf Australia shall be performed from April 21-23, 2023, in accordance with the tour. It shall be one among 14 occasions within the 2023 LIV season, up from 8 in ’22 and on par with the PGA Tour’s variety of “elevated events” within the new 12 months.

Notably, the Adelaide occasion shall be contested lower than two weeks after the conclusion of the 2023 Masters. It stays to be seen whether or not Augusta National will enable entrance for the upstart league into the 12 months’s first main, although league officers and gamers have remained hopeful they may earn an invite.

James Colgan

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James Colgan is an assistant editor at GOLF, contributing tales for the web site and journal. He writes the Hot Mic, GOLF’s weekly media column, and makes use of his broadcast expertise throughout the model’s social media and video platforms. A 2019 graduate of Syracuse University, James — and evidently, his golf sport — remains to be defrosting from 4 years within the snow. Prior to becoming a member of GOLF, James was a caddie scholarship recipient (and astute looper) on Long Island, the place he’s from. He could be reached at james.colgan@golf.com.