Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nCameron Smith of Ripper GC reacts from the 9th green during day two of LIV Golf Mexico City.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
PGA of Australia chief executive Gavin Kirkman has no doubt that whatever unfolds with the LIV Tour, the Aussies who feature on it will be able to forge a successful path forward.<\/p>\n
Declaring Smith was \u201ctoo young to retire\u201d, he said the body plans to sit down with the 2022 British Open champion and his management team later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur focus is on Cam. Marc Leishman has still got a lot of golf to play. Elvis Smylie is a superstar and Lucas Herbert is capable of winning a major,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose four players are very important to Australian golf. We can\u2019t make decisions for them, but this is where we hope the global golf ecosystem really comes together, because I can say that all the tour and all the majors want the best golfers playing.\u201d<\/p>\n
While uncertainty clearly surrounds the future of the breakaway tour, Kirkman said the event in Australia helped re-energise the sport across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should call out the success of the LIV Golf events which have helped Australian golf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a very successful Australian Open supported by the Australian PGA Championship, and the women also had four LET events in a row this season. The fans are saying we want more golf and to bring the big events (to Australia).\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron Smith,Marc Leishman ,Elvis Smylie and Lucas Herbert of Ripper GC celebrate winning the teams tournament during day four of LIV Adelaide.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland said the national organisation was \u201cnot blind or ignorant\u201d regarding the focus that is currently on the LIV Tour.<\/p>\n
The Ripper GC team led by Smith also has a role in developing junior golfers across the country, while the South Australian Government is investing $45 million on a development of the North Adelaide Golf Club, which was due to host the Australian LIV event in 2028.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are certainly not blind or ignorant to some of the discussions going on with LIV,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have certainly spoken to people on the management side (of the Ripper team) and I think they are obviously working through that. There seems to be a lot of uncertainty as to how this is going to play out.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the four Aussies on the team had the full support of Golf Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe four guys on the Ripper team, we\u2019re super proud of them as great golfers and we love the fact they come back and play in our major tournaments every year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure that will continue to happen. We\u2019re supportive of them and their choices to play on whatever tour they want.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith also addressed Ripper GC\u2019s connection with Golf Australia\u2019s junior golf program MyGolf, saying protecting LIV Adelaide is essential to the growth of the sport in his home country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the more times we can get kids to junior clinics and all the other stuff we do down there, the better for the game in Australia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to have 40 events down there, I\u2019d play them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just not how it is. Absolutely I want to be there more often playing events.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A defiant Cameron Smith has dismissed retirement rumours and stressed that LIV Adelaide will go ahead next year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6729,395,124,297,23,133,6730,6745,978,6761,6735,6748,6737,6733,6734,6726,565,6741,2101,6747,4944,6744,368,6753,1359,6727,6746,6740,6728,6754,6732,6743,6738,6749,6756,6758,6739,6759,6760,6752,6750,119,135,120,376,6757,6751,6742,6736,1360,6731,6755,117,1438,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-5417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-abdullah-ahmed","9":"tag-adelaide","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-asia","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-australian-golf","15":"tag-australian-golf-circles","16":"tag-australian-government","17":"tag-australian-media","18":"tag-beloved-all-australian-team","19":"tag-body-plans","20":"tag-breakaway-league","21":"tag-bryson-dechambeau","22":"tag-cameron-smith","23":"tag-central-america","24":"tag-chief-executive","25":"tag-competition-aspect","26":"tag-courtney-walsh","27":"tag-elvis-smylie","28":"tag-florida","29":"tag-gavin-kirkman","30":"tag-getty-images-inc","31":"tag-global-golf-ecosystem","32":"tag-golf-course","33":"tag-golf-news","34":"tag-golf-tournament","35":"tag-golfers-playing","36":"tag-home-country","37":"tag-home-sickness","38":"tag-jacksonville","39":"tag-james-sutherland","40":"tag-junior-golf-program","41":"tag-lucas-herbert","42":"tag-management-side","43":"tag-management-team","44":"tag-marc-leishman","45":"tag-mexico","46":"tag-mexico-city","47":"tag-murky-waters","48":"tag-north-adelaide-golf-club","49":"tag-north-america","50":"tag-northern-america","51":"tag-oceania","52":"tag-press-conference","53":"tag-retirement-rumours","54":"tag-riyadh-golf-club","55":"tag-royal-birkdale","56":"tag-royal-melbourne-golf-club","57":"tag-saudi-arabia","58":"tag-teams-tournament","59":"tag-the-grange-golf-club","60":"tag-united-states-of-america","61":"tag-virginia","62":"tag-western-asia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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