“I’m just feeling good, just feeling better on yourself. It’s not good when you look in the mirror and swear at yourself, which is what I did just after Christmas.”

Tuohy heaps praise on LIV Golf Adelaide

Veteran tournament promoter Bob Tuohy soaked in the atmosphere at The Grange and waxed lyrical about the scale and magnitude of LIV Golf Adelaide. The Adelaide native staged 198 tournaments over a 43-year span during which he responsible for some of the most iconic moments in Australian golf.

It was Tuohy who invited a young Greg Norman to the 1976 West Lakes Classic at The Grange where he would record his first professional victory in a Hall Of Fame career. Bringing LIV to Australia was a huge achievement, according to Tuohy: “You can’t find anything bigger in the world. I mean, the build this week is like a British Open. It’s massive – $20 million is the build this week. I think it’s a huge success. A massive plus for Adelaide, Australia. It’s given golf a big injection, it’s created a brand new audience. A younger and broader audience to be interested in golf. A large percentage of the attendance this week are non-golfers and that’s got to be good for the game.”

Rules royalty to the rescue

Respected Australian rules officials Trevor Herden and Andrew Langford-Jones made their LIV Golf debuts in Adelaide. Both were late reinforcements to the nine-strong panel of officials to streamline the time it takes to officiate upon rules incidents.

For Herden, it was just two years since he suffered a life-threatening cardiac arrest at Sorrento Golf Club on the Mornington Peninsula. Thankfully, an ex-cardiac nurse witnessed his fall from a golf cart and came to his aid.

Pitch perfect

Australia’s Matt Jones produced the ‘Shot of the Day’ at The Grange, hitting the flagstick at the 158m par-3 14th. However, the ball failed to drop and nestled just an inch from the hole.