{"id":6832,"date":"2026-05-07T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/6832\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:39:06","slug":"south-australia-premier-says-liv-welcome-back-to-adelaide-if-it-can-continue-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/6832\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australia Premier says LIV welcome back to Adelaide if it can continue success"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas says that LIV Golf is \u201cwelcome back in Adelaide, but warns that the state government is \u2018not going to pay for anything that doesn\u2019t deliver,\u2019\u201d according to Thomas Kelsall of ABC.net.au. LIV\u2019s annual event at Adelaide has been a success<\/a>, with the event at the Grange Golf Club one of the league\u2019s \u201cbiggest money-spinners.\u201d But as LIV looks for new investment with the PIF pulling out<\/a>, Malinauskas believes that LIV\u2019s \u201cbusiness model was \u2018their problem.\u2019\u201d He said, \u201cWhat matters is that we get what we pay for, and on that score, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt about the fact that it\u2019s been a massive success for our state.\u201d Malinauskas said that LIV had \u201calready signalled to the state government that it was looking at different business plans.\u201d Malinauskas: \u201cWe welcome that, and we\u2019ll be at the front of the queue if it stacks up for us. I don\u2019t owe LIV anything. The people I owe and care about are the people of South Australia, and I\u2019ll make my decisions about what\u2019s in the best interest for the state writ large.\u201d He added, \u201cThus far, it\u2019s been a massive success. Whether it is in the future or not will depend on whether or not it stacks up for us\u201d (ABC.net.au, 5\/6<\/a>). CODE SPORTS\u2019 Adam Pengilly wrote LIV Golf player Cameron Smith is \u201c\u2018absolutely\u2019 confident the embattled LIV Golf will return to Adelaide next year.\u201d Smith said, \u201cThe team are working hard behind the scenes and they\u2019re doing everything we can for us\u201d (CODE SPORTS, 5\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n

NOT JUST ANY TOURNAMENT: AUSTRALIAN GOLF DIGEST\u2019s Nick Cutler wrote Adelaide has \u201cnot just been \u2018another\u2019 tournament added to the calendar.\u201d It has \u201cfelt like it always belonged.\u201d It is a \u201creminder of what golf in this country can look like when we are not treated as an afterthought.\u201d If it \u201cdisappears, it will not just leave a gap,\u201d it will \u201cleave the game here far worse off.\u201d When it is LIV Golf week in Adelaide, \u201cyou can feel it.\u201d Not just \u201cin the galleries, but in the way people talk about the event.\u201d The city is \u201cbuzzing and the tournament matters to the people there.\u201d It \u201cfeels like something you need to be at.\u201d Then \u201cthere is the crowd,\u201d with more than 115,000 people across the week in Adelaide. That is \u201cnot normal for golf in this country.\u201d Australian golf fans \u201cwill show up if the product is right.\u201d It does \u201cnot just appeal to the traditional golf fan.\u201d It \u201cbrings in a different crowd,\u201d one that is \u201cyounger, more casual, and more open to a version of golf that does not feel locked in the past\u201d (AUSTRALIAN GOLF DIGEST, 5\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n

DERAILING THE FOCUS: In D.C., George Gerbo wrote LIV is back in Northern Virginia this week, though as it returns to the area for the third time, the league is \u201cshrinking and on life support.\u201d The conversation surrounding the tournament this spring has \u201cnothing to do with what\u2019s happening on the course.\u201d LIV Golf Virginia once again occurs ahead of a major — last year, it was the U.S. Open; this year, it is the PGA Championship. This year\u2019s event \u201cwill be missing some of the firepower\u201d that played in 2025, both from its departed stars as well as the absence of Phil Mickelson \u201cdue to a family health matter\u201d (WASHINGTON TIMES, 5\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas says that LIV Golf is \u201cwelcome back in Adelaide, but warns that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[395,2675,1354],"class_list":{"0":"post-6832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adelaide","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-liv-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","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=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}