"I take it as a compliment that Rory wanted to beat my 20 PGA Tour wins. His next goal should be to win more than 91 tournaments globally or to maintain No.1 in the world for more than 331 weeks." 😲🍿
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According to a source, an official from the PGA Tour spoke to Smith about his Patrick Reed remarks, essentially issuing a warning that he would be fined in the future if he made similar statements. 😲
Throughout
@Channel7
's coverage of
@livgolf_league
Adelaide, fans can tune in to the Team Stream:
@rippergc_
pop-up channel on
@7plus
, a bespoke feed for Cam Smith’s Aussie team, focussed purely on Smith, Matt Jones, Marc Leishman and Jediah Morgan. 📺 🇦🇺
OPINION: "
@SharkGregNorman
has found a welcome sanctuary among Aussie sports fans, government and tourism authorities. So it stands to reason
@livgolf_league
will strengthen its ties here in the form of one or two more events." 👀
LIV Golf’s 2023 individual champ
@TalorGooch
is disappointed he is without a
#Masters
invitation while former world No.1
@WestwoodLee
says golf’s majors will lose credibility if they continue to use an “obsolete”
@OWGRltd
when issuing invitations. Details:
ON SALE: The hottest siblings in golf –
@Minwoo27Lee
&
@minjeegolf
– take centre stage in the Sept issue of AGD. We also ponder whether we’re entering a new
#GoldenEra
in Australian golf, and explain how COVID has helped save regional golf.⛳️
READ IT NOW:
Greg Norman has called out the PGA of Australia on social media for not using the words "LIV Golf" or "Ripper GC" for the second week in a row in posts congratulating Cameron Smith and his all-Australian squad on consecutive teams victories.
"Those who criticise me for ‘hating’ trees: show me a picture – the before and after – and tell me which hole is better. There’s not one tree ever I regret cutting down because in every instance the golf was better for the tree going."🪚🌳–
@mikeclaytongolf
“I’ve had a lot of injuries with my back and for a moment there I thought I wasn’t going to play again. To be on the other side of it, to be healthy, feeling good about my game, finally winning again … yeah, it’s no better feeling.” 🏆🇦🇺
.
#BREAKING
: "There is massive potential for Australia to play a bigger role in this great sport, and I couldn’t be more excited to showcase Adelaide for our league’s debut year.” –
@SharkGregNorman
@LIVGolfInv
is coming to Australia in April! Full story:
“Minjee now has the belief to take on the Jin Young Kos and Nelly Kordas for that No.1 mantle. She's going to believe she truly has what it takes to be the game’s dominant player." Our exclusive with
@Karrie_Webb
here 👇
@WPGATour
@GolfAust
@minjeegolf
Such a viewpoint ignores the already imbalanced geography of the men’s majors, which sees three of the four held in the USA and all four in the northern hemisphere.
@chambleebrandel
SNAP POLL: Should Australia's newest Major champion
@hannahgreengolf
have been nominated for
#TheDon
– the nation's most prestigious sporting accolade recognising the capacity to most inspire the nation?
#BREAKING
: Cam Smith's Ripper GC have won the
#LIVGolfAdelaide
teams title after chaotic scenes in a playoff against Louis Oosthuizen's all-South African Stinger GC
COOL, KIM & COLLECTED: Sydney's
@gracekimeyy
banked $US300,000 and guaranteed her playing rights for the next two years on the
@LPGA
Tour. Full report on Australia's latest golf sensation via
@martinj_blake
👇
C'MON AUSSIE: Adding to
@Minwoo27Lee
's incentive for a strong finish on Sunday is the knowledge that a solo 27th finish or better would secure Special Temporary Membership of the
@PGATOUR
for the remainder of the season. 🤞
Congratulations to
@Barnbougle
Dunes' devillish seventh hole, which has taken out the title of Australia's Greatest Par 3, as voted by our 83,000 Facebook followers!
The quest to decide our greatest par 4 is now underway. Click here: …/
[📷 Gary Lisbon]
JUST IN: City of Monash Council has voted 10-1 in favour of retaining the Oakleigh Golf Course as a nine-hole public golf course for the foreseeable future! 👏🍾 Full details:
VALE BOB SHEARER 🙏
Always self-effacing, Shearer reckons he ‘got lucky’ 40 years ago when he lifted the Australian Open trophy at The Australian Golf Club.
#RIPBOBSHEARER
@GolfAust
@PGAofAustralia
"Having made my way to the
@PGATour
, this is the least I can do to help, and I love the fact that the money will go straight back into the same programs that helped make me who I am today.” –
@lhgolf5
@GolfAust
"Seeing
@SharkGregNorman
gather our greenkeepers for a selfie,
@PhilMickelson
throwing a $50 note to one of our young baristas for the “best coffee I’ve ever had”... these are the things I’ll remember long after the stands have been packed away."
#LIVGolf
JUST IN:
@PGAofAustralia
boss
@gavin_golf
has confirmed Australia’s best golfer will continue to be awarded the
@GregNorman
Medal after its title was brought into question following Norman's lead role in
@LIVGolfInv
. FULL DETAILS:
“It’s all about getting the best players we can find competing with each other again. But the real stars of the show will be the courses.”
👏
@mikeclaytongolf
JUST IN: James Sutherland has encouraged golf’s powerbrokers to consider the idea to award the Australian Open winner an exemption into all four majors.
@GolfAust
Per
@EvinPriest
"OHHHHH MY GOODNESS!" 😲
With form like this,
@rippergc_
captain Cam Smith might have to look at drafting the two-time Major legend
@SharkGregNorman
into his line-up for
@livgolf_league
Adelaide. 👇
“I’m honoured that my name can feature on the Australian WPGA Championship trophy, but I am even more excited by Australia’s leading female players having another marquee event to play in.”
Congrats,
@Karrie_Webb
@WPGATour
@PGAofAustralia
@RQGOLF
👏🏆🇦🇺
“I’m actually not far away from throwing in the towel, to be honest. This would be the final straw.” 😲
Councils' war against public golf is taking its toll on one of the sport's greatest advocates. Here's what
@jamogolf
hopes changes – and quickly!
Has Australia been neglected?
"It’s easy to say yes but Australia isn’t the easiest country to get to. But I think there could have been a bigger effort made (by the tours)."
@JonRahmOfficial
opens up on adding
@livgolf_league
Adelaide to his schedule🇦🇺👇
CAM'S CLOSE CALL: “It was really good stuff. Still just a little bit disappointing.”
Our man Smithy had the putter rolling ahead of this week's
#PGAChampionship
. Full wrap and highlights from
@livgolf_league
's Tulsa event👇
@rippergc_
"I am highly confident with our strength of field – which grows each week with player signings – and our individual format, that it puts us in a very good place to secure official OWGR points."
From humble beginnings, here’s what made LIV Golf Adelaide in 2023 such a memorable experience. Now it shapes as being an even greater spectacle this week.
The New South Wales Government’s plans to seize nine holes of Sydney’s busy Moore Park Golf Course and turn it into a park have angered golfers far and wide. But if you think they’re all rich, white males that are upset, think again... 📝
"I made a few birdies but just enjoyed showing my friend Royal Melbourne on his first trip to Australia,"
@SharkGregNorman
told
@GolfDigestAU
.
FULL STORY & VIDEO:
“Golf is a huge sport, it’s incredibly popular and it’s only getting more popular. To think that there’s contemplation around this golf course – the busiest golf course in the Southern Hemisphere – halving in size, it doesn’t make sense to us.”
@GolfAust
NO.2 ON THE WAY: Those familiar with the
@7milegolf
site in Hobart's east recognise the potential – and space – for as many as four or five golf courses 😍
This is pretty wild. According to a story I read, Phachara Khongwatmai and his caddie walked around for nearly 15 minutes in this area before hitting the shot
He was leading at the time. Both Cam Smith and Ben Cambell were frustrated
📷
@StephenRoche100
C'MON AUSSIE!
@hannahgreengolf
becomes just the fifth Australian to register four
@LPGA
titles, joining Jan Stephenson, Karrie Webb, Rachel Hetherington and Minjee Lee. 🇦🇺💪 Watch her incredible finish here: