2025 LIV Golf Adelaide preview: Everything you need to know about LIV’s biggest event

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Everything you need to know ahead of LIV Golf Adelaide.

LIV Golf Adelaide is back, featuring the showpiece ‘Watering Hole’.

Australia has taken to LIV Golf more than any other country with 94,000 tickets sold for last year’s LIV Golf Adelaide, over double the attendance of the tour’s second most popular event.

The reason is simple. Australia isn’t well-served by traditional tour golf, so LIV has provided the best chance for Aussie golf fans to watch some of the world’s best players in live action.

It also helps that Brisbane-born Cameron Smith was one of LIV Golf’s biggest signings to date. The 30-year-old joined golf’s breakaway tour shortly after his 2022 Open Championship victory, which took him to second in the Official World Golf Rankings.

There’s also the small fact that LIV Golf Adelaide features its own version of the famous 16th ‘Colesium’ hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The par-3 12th is surrounded by marquees and ‘sky boxes’, with players cheered for hitting the green, booed for missing it, and plastic beer cups raining down onto the tee regardless. It’s known as the ‘Watering Hole’ for a reason!

Last year delivered fans a fairytale victory as the Aussie quartet of Smith, Leishman, Jones, and Herbert prevailed in the tour’s first-ever team playoff over Stinger GC, triggering frenzied celebrations and even a ‘shoey’ from LIV’s Aussie-born CEO and commissioner Greg Norman.

Greg Norman downs a beer from a shoe on stage at LIV Golf Adelaide.

LIV Golf Adelaide key details

Venue: The Grange Golf Club, Adelaide (Par 72 – 6,840 yards).

Format: 54-hole strokeplay with no cut.

Individual Purse: $20 million with the winner receiving $4 million.

Team Purse: $5 million (1st – $3m, 2nd – $1.5m, 3rd – $500,000).

Favorites: TBC

Defending champions: Brendan Steele, -18 | Ripper GC, -53.

LIV Golf Adelaide is played at The Grange Golf Club.

How to watch LIV Golf Adelaide

In the US, you can see the entire 2025 LIV Golf TV schedule on Fox Sports, while in the UK, all events will be broadcast live on ITVX, with selected tournaments on ITV1 and ITV4.

Who is playing on LIV Golf in 2025?

4Aces GC: Dustin Johnson (captain) | Thomas Pieters | Patrick Reed | Harold Varner III

Cleeks GC: Martin Kaymer (captain) | Richard Bland | Adrian Meronk | Frederik Kjettrup

Crushers GC: Bryson DeChambeau (captain) | Paul Casey | Charles Howell IIII | Anirdban Lahiri

Fireballs GC: Sergio Garcia (captain) | Abraham Ancer | Luis Masaveu | David Puig

Hyflers GC: Phil Mickelson (captain) | Brendan Steele | Cameron Tringale | Andy Ogletree

Iron Heads GC: Kevin Na (captain) | Danny Lee | Yubin Jang | Jinichiro Kozuma

Legion XIII GC: Jon Rahm (captain) | Tyrrell Hatton | Caleb Surratt | Tom McKibbin

Majesticks GC: Ian Poulter (co-captain) | Lee Westwood (co-capt.) | Henrik Stenson (co-capt.) | Sam Horsfield

RangeGoats GC: Bubba Watson (captain) | Peter Uhlein | Matthew Wolff | Ben Campbell

Ripper GC: Cameron Smith (captain) | Marc Leishman | Matt Jones | Lucas Herbert

Smash GC: Brooks Koepka (captain) | Talor Gooch | Jason Kokrak | Graeme McDowell

Stinger GC: Louis Oosthuizen (captain) | Dean Burmester | Branden Grace | Charl Schwartzel

Torque GC: Joaquin Niemann (captain) | Sebastián Muñoz | Mito Pereira | Carlos Ortiz

Unattached ‘Wild Card’ players: Anthony Kim | Max Lee

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