{"id":816759,"date":"2026-10-28T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816759\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:42:08","slug":"liv-golf-adelaide-sends-ultimatum-as-two-stars-ponder-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/816759\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf Adelaide sends ultimatum as two stars ponder future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tTwo of LIV Golf\u2019s biggest remaining stars could hold the key to the future of the league\u2019s most popular tournament\u2026<\/p>\n

LIV Golf\u2019s most successful event appears on the brink of collapse after being told it will only go ahead if several star players commit to the relaunched version of the league. <\/p>\n

Peter Malinauskas, the South Australian Premier, has effectively laid an ultimatum to LIV bosses ahead of the league\u2019s possible return to Adelaide in 2027. <\/p>\n

Despite LIV\u2019s current plight, the league\u2019s visits Down Under have been undisputed success stories, with 115,000 fans in attendance across this year\u2019s event as Anthony Kim completed one of the game\u2019s great comeback stories<\/a> by staring down Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm to claim victory. <\/p>\n

The tournament is supposed to move to Kooyonga Golf Club next year, but the uncertainty around LIV\u2019s restructuring process in bankruptcy court has thrown the event in doubt. <\/p>\n

Rahm is one of a number of high-profile names to depart LIV<\/a>, and Malinauskas has highlighted two players who are now crucial if the league is to return to Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tricky,\u201d Malinauskas told radio station SEN<\/a>. \u201cLIV Golf are officially telling us that they are all systems go to be back here. But we are monitoring it pretty closely. What\u2019s happening with the players is going to be the most instructive outcome here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very important to us they keep the likes of Cam Smith and Bryson DeChambeau in that playing roster; that underpins the success of the event. That\u2019s something we are monitoring closely just to see how it unfolds. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to go through with LIV unless they put on the standard of event they have put on in the past, which has been truly exceptional. We\u2019re going to know for sure in the next two to three weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeChambeau and Smith are yet to announce where they will play next season, but the league\u2019s investors BC Partners will soon require a number of commitments from players to complete their transaction and salavage the league\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

LIV hope to stage at least 10 events next season as part of its reimagined league, but it remains unclear where these tournaments will be played. <\/p>\n

Valderrama\u2019s general manager Javier Reveriego told TG last month<\/a> that he does not yet have clarity on whether LIV will return to the famous Spanish course next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will review once we have the info from them,\u201d said Reveriego. \u201cIf we don\u2019t do events for a few years, it\u2019s really not an issue. The club is fine. We\u2019ve always been linked to tournaments, but life will go on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of LIV Golf\u2019s biggest remaining stars could hold the key to the future of the league\u2019s most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}