Tournament information | |
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Location | Grange, South Australia, Australia |
Established | 2023 |
Course(s) | The Grange Golf Club |
Par | 72 |
Length | 6,946 yards (6,351 m) |
Tour(s) | LIV Golf |
Format | Individual and team stroke play |
Prize fund | US$20,000,000 (individual) US$5,000,000 (team) [1] |
Month played | April |
Tournament record score | |
Aggregate | 197 Talor Gooch (2023) |
To par | −19 as above |
Current champion | |
Brendan Steele | |
Location map | |
Location in Australia Location in South Australia |
LIV Golf Adelaide is a professional golf tournament sponsored by LIV Golf in Australia, held at The Grange Golf Club in Grange, south of Adelaide. It debuted in April 2023. The first event was also co-sponsored by the MENA Tour.
The tournament is a 54-hole individual stroke play event, with a team element. Four man teams are chosen, with a set number of their total scores counting for the team on each day. Each round commenced with a shotgun start, with the leaders beginning on the first hole for the final round, in order to finish on the eighteenth. [2]
Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of victory | Runner-up |
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2024 | Brendan Steele | 198 | −18 | 1 stroke | Louis Oosthuizen |
2023 | Talor Gooch | 197 | −19 | 3 strokes | Anirban Lahiri |
Year | Winners [lower-alpha 1] | Score (to par) | Margin of victory | Runners-up [lower-alpha 1] | |
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2024 | Ripper GC [lower-alpha 2] | −53 | Countback | Stinger GC [lower-alpha 3] | |
2023 | 4Aces GC [lower-alpha 4] | −47 | 1 stroke | RangeGoats GC [lower-alpha 5] |
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