{"id":49295,"date":"2025-07-31T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49295\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:06:07","slug":"liv-golf-players-expect-rowdy-fans-for-team-championship-in-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49295\/","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf players expect rowdy fans for team championship in Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp talks LIV Golf<\/p>\n

Brian Rolapp discussed LIV Golf is his opening press conference<\/p>\n

LIV Golf’s Team Championship Michigan will debut at The Cardinal at St. John\u2019s in Plymouth from August 22-24.The tournament will feature a Ryder Cup-style format with 12 four-player teams competing in quarterfinals, semifinals, and a final.LIV Golf offers a more relaxed atmosphere with music and concerts, attracting a younger audience.<\/p>\n

Three weeks before LIV Golf makes its Michigan debut<\/a>, Cam Smith already knows what to expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve played enough in the States, I guess, to know that I guess the further north you go, the rowdier the fans get, I think, is about right,\u201d said Smith, the Australian captain of the Ripper GC team. \u201cSo expecting a pretty rowdy week, you know, with the concerts and everything. Hopefully we get some big crowds and it should be a fun week.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a virtual news conference Wednesday, July 30, Smith was joined by Louis Oosthuizen, the South African captain of Stinger GC, to preview the season-ending LIV Golf Team Championship Michigan, which will be played Aug. 22-24 at The Cardinal at St. John\u2019s in Plymouth.<\/a><\/p>\n

Twelve four-player teams will kick off the action the first day. Each match will consist of two singles matches and one alternate-shot foursome match, with three total points up for grabs. The tournament will be run in bracket-style format with quarterfinals scheduled the first day, semifinals the second day and the final on the third day.<\/p>\n

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The Ryder Cup-style event is yet another difference between the upstart LIV Golf tour, now in its fourth season, and the established PGA Tour. LIV promotes itself as a livelier and more relaxed experience with players allowed to wear shorts and music playing around the course during each round.<\/p>\n

The deep pockets of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Investment Fund, which primarily bankrolls the tour, has spent considerable money to lure former PGA Tour stars and major winners like Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson. Those five players alone reportedly received contracts that totaled nearly $1 billion.<\/a><\/p>\n

The star power plus the carnival-like atmosphere that will feature live performances by “Imagine Dragons” after Saturday\u2019s round and by house group “Swedish House Mafia” on Sunday could help attract the 10,000-15,000 fans organizers are expecting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like you had a festival,\u201d Oosthuizen said of LIV events. \u201cIt feels like \u2026 there\u2019s a concert. Some have more than one concert and music. You’ll see a lot of younger people. They\u2019re enjoying (the tournament) outside of golf, not just the golf.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, you know, that’s the biggest thing to attract people that (don\u2019t) really know anything, a lot, about golf, and getting them to see the top players play the game, and then also enjoy family time with the fan zone and everything else we do outside of just golf. So it is different. It’s a different experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact Carlos Monarrez at cmonarrez@freepress.com<\/a> and follow him on X @cmonarrez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp talks LIV Golf Brian Rolapp discussed LIV Golf is his opening press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[182,1246,31559,15547,31560,38230,35853,13710,427,10719,8326,38231,13755,15837,10658,13592,1303,3,13470,13471,34592,3332,38229,5573,38232,99,2415,13546,13717,12853],"class_list":["post-49295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ai","tag-australia","tag-bryson","tag-bryson-dechambeau","tag-dechambeau","tag-dustin","tag-dustin-johnson","tag-enabled","tag-golf","tag-highlights","tag-johnson","tag-jon","tag-jon-rahm","tag-liv","tag-liv-golf","tag-mi","tag-michigan","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-pga","tag-pga-tour","tag-plymouth","tag-positive","tag-rahm","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}