New date, same venue as LIV Golf Adelaide 2025 details revealed – Australian Golf Digest

by Admin
September 4, 2024

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Adelaide will see a top-class field of golfers two months earlier next year when it serves as the second leg of LIV Golf’s third season. The league announced today that it will launch its 2025 season in February by teeing off in marquee global markets across Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

“As we set our sights on 2025, LIV Golf is gearing up for our most ambitious season start to date,” said LIV Golf commissioner and chief executive Greg Norman. “Since our debut in 2022, LIV Golf has played 34 tournaments in nine different countries across four continents. We are a global league with a global footprint, and we’re excited to kick off next season with four truly international events that will deliver our unique blend of elite golf, entertainment and culture to fans around the world.”

The league will begin the 2025 season from February 6-8 with LIV Golf Riyadh, marking LIV Golf’s debut in Saudi Arabia’s capital city. The 2025 kickoff event will feature LIV Golf’s star-studded field competing at Riyadh Golf Club, host to events including the Aramco Team Series, the Saudi Open presented by the PIF, and the PIF Saudi International powered by SoftBank Investment Advisers in December.

From February 14-16, LIV Golf will return to the Grange Golf Club for LIV Golf Adelaide, reigning winner of the World’s Best Golf Event at the World Golf Awards. This past April, the tournament welcomed more than 94,000 fans to the South Australian venue which reset the bar for LIV Golf fandom across the three days. The event saw the return of the popular Watering Hole on the par-3 12th, had a standout performance by individual champion Brendan Steele, and played host to the league’s first-ever team playoff, won by the all-Australian Ripper GC and captain Cam Smith, in front of the home crowd.

“Summer in South Australia is about to get a whole lot louder,” said South Australia premier Peter Malinauskas. “The new timeslot will see LIV Golf Adelaide follow the highly anticipated 25th anniversary of our Santos Tour Down Under and lead us perfectly into our world-renowned festival season including Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Festival, and WOMADelaide. We promised a bigger and better LIV Golf Adelaide in 2024 and we delivered, for the fans, for the players, and for our state’s economy. Generating more than 79,000 visitor nights in South Australia is a massive win for our tourism industry and was a strong contributor to April recording the strongest ever monthly revenue for accommodation across greater metropolitan Adelaide. The resounding success of LIV Golf Adelaide continues to cement our state’s reputation as the best place in the nation to host blockbuster events – and I cannot wait for LIV to go even bigger and better again in February 2025.”

Two weeks after Adelaide, the league will travel to Hong Kong for the second consecutive year of competition at Hong Kong Golf Club for LIV Golf Hong Kong from March 7-9. Annual host to some of the region’s most prestigious golf events for the past 60 years, Hong Kong Golf Club will once again serve a challenging test to many of the sport’s biggest stars, including the tournament’s defending individual champion Abraham Ancer as well as team champions Crushers GC and captain Bryson DeChambeau.

The next week, March 14-16, LIV Golf will return to Sentosa Golf Club for the third consecutive year of LIV Golf Singapore. Set against the leading international sporting destination of Singapore, the event will see reigning individual champion Brooks Koepka as well as team champion Ripper GC attempt to defend their titles on the club’s Serapong course. The championship venue has received many prestigious accolades in golf and is widely regarded as one of the most sustainable golf clubs in the world.

Further announcements on the remainder of LIV Golf League’s 14-tournament global schedule will be unveiled soon.

LIV Golf’s 2024 regular season concludes next week in Illinois at LIV Golf Chicago, teeing off from September 13-15 at Bolingbrook Golf Club. The next week, the 13 teams travel to Texas for the season-ending LIV Golf Dallas Team Championship at Maridoe Golf Club from September 20-22.