LIV Golf Adelaide Was Peak LIV Golf

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Pat Perez and Chase Koepka LIV Golf Adelaide
Pat Perez (L) and Chase Koepka celebrate scores on the 12th hole during the final round of the LIV Golf Adelaide at Grange Golf Course on April 23, 2023 in Adelaide, Australia. (Getty Images)

“Golf, But Louder” is the tagline of LIV Golf. Yet through its first 11 events (eight in 2022 and three in 2023), the upstart league hadn’t quite reached the form commissioner Greg Norman had visualized.

But Norman and LIV Golf execs may have cracked the code this past weekend in Australia at The Grange Golf Club, highlighted by a new “party hole.”

Chase Koepka Hole in One LIV Golf Adelaide
Chase Koepka of the Smash scores a hole- in-one on the 12th hole during Day 3 of Liv Golf Adelaide at The Grange GC on Apr 23, 2023 in Adelaide, Aus. (Photo by Mark Brake via Getty Images)

During Sunday’s final round of the LIV Golf Adelaide, Chase Koepka raised the roof with a hole-in-one on the par-3 12th, aka the Watering Hole.

That same day, also on the 12th, Pat Perez made birdie and all hell broke loose.

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Pat Perez celebrates after making a birdie on the 12th hole as beers cans are thrown onto the green and Charl Schwartzel caddie shields himself during day three of Liv Golf Adelaide at The Grange GC on Apr 23, 2023 in Adelaide, Aus. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake via Getty Images)

Bottomline – aided greatly by the buildout of a “party hole,” LIV Golf Adelaide was exactly what the upstart league had envisioned.

“That’s what LIV should be, in its heart and its DNA, I think that’s what it can be every single week and will be when people start understanding what the real deal is here,” said Bryson DeChambeau, ahead of LIV Golf Singapore.

“There’s been a lot of controversy and a lot of things going on, but we are here to play golf, and we are here to do the best we possibly can every single week, and it was fun seeing the fans support us.”

It was peak LIV Golf.

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