LIV Golf has dedicated to staging one in every of its occasions on subsequent 12 months’s 14-stop schedule in Australia, with The Grange Golf Membership in Adelaide set to play host to the nation’s debut LIV Golf occasion from April 21-23.
Reigning Open champion Smith, together with Marc Leishman and Matt Jones would be the headline home-grown stars collaborating within the occasion, alongside the Saudi-backed tour’s different main names, together with Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Sergio Garcia, Henrik Stenson, Patrick Reed and Louis Oosthuizen.
“Ardour for sport is on the core of Australian tradition, and LIV Golf is proud to convey its world league to a rustic deserving of the world’s prime competitors,” mentioned LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner Greg Norman. “This is a chance to develop the sport with generations of Australians whereas connecting them with star gamers like Cameron Smith who’re constructing a brand new platform for golf across the globe. There’s large potential for Australia to play a much bigger position on this nice sport, and I couldn’t be extra excited to showcase Adelaide for our league’s debut 12 months.”
The Grange has hosted main skilled occasions together with the West Lakes Traditional, the place Norman claimed his first skilled victory in 1976. A number web site for the South Australian Open and a number of PGA occasions, the membership has additionally staged the Australian Newbie and Australian Interstate Group Collection, in addition to Australian feminine beginner occasions, together with the 2019 and 2016 Ladies’s Australian Open.
“The Grange Golf Membership is happy to host the world’s greatest golfers at our course,” mentioned membership president Nicolle Rantanen Reynolds. “It’s recognition of our glorious services and our capacity to host world-class golf tournaments. We’re trying ahead to working with LIV Golf and the SA Authorities to ship an impressive occasion.”
The complete schedule for the 2023 LIV Golf Collection has but to be introduced, however the Centurion Membership in Hertfordshire will as soon as once more host the tour’s UK cease.