Watch: Lucas Herbert’s caddie gets dinked in head by bottle at LIV Golf Adelaide’s Watering Hole

Keep your head on a swivel.

Keep your head on a swivel.

That’s what LIV Golf is likely to be telling its players and caddies heading into Sunday’s final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club in Australia, where Brendan Steele sits at 14 under after the second round and one in front of Danny Lee heading to Sunday. Aussie favorite Cameron Smith sits only three shots back.

The fans at the Adelaide event have been the best for LIV Golf now for the second straight year, with people coming in droves Down Under to watch professional golf. With its own rendition of a party hole, the “Watering Hole,” there have also been plenty of scenes getting a bit too rowdy for a golf tournament, but who says we can’t have some fun?

However, as is the case often times when alcohol is involved, some fans took it way too far Saturday. Aussie Lucas Herbert was lining up a 6-foot par putt and knocked it in on the Watering Hole, and fans went berserk. So much so that when his caddie was putting the flag stick in the hole, he got smoked in the head by a bottle and went down.

All for fans celebrating and having fun at golf tournaments. That’s fun to watch and be a part of. But throwing things intentionally near players and caddies? Yeah, no thank you.

Here’s to hoping Herbert’s caddie survived the headshot. Herbert is 6 under after two rounds of play.

Carlos Ortiz and Mito Pereira are at 12 under individually, two back. In the team competition, Torque GC leads at 35 under by one over HyFlyers GC and IronHeads GC.

Jinichiro Kozuma leads the way after round one of LIV Golf Adelaide 2024

Catch up on the first-round action here.

The LIV Golf League is Down Under this week at The Grange Golf Club in Australia, and Jinichiro Kozuma holds a one-shot lead at 9 under. 

Kozuma made seven birdies and an eagle during his bogey-free effort and will tee off Saturday one shot ahead of Carlos Ortiz (8 under) and Danny Lee (8 under). Lee and Kozuma are both team members of Iron Heads GC.

“Today my putting was really good,” Kozuma told the media after signing his card. “It was really hot. I had some troubles here and there, but my putting was there to help me get through pars, and it was all about the putting today.”

Mito Pereira, Peter Uihlein, Andy Ogletree and Anirban Lahiri are tied for seventh at 7 under, while Matt Jones and Brendan Steele share eighth place at 6 under.

More: It’s a wild scene again at LIV Golf Adelaide. Here are the photos to prove it

As for the big names, Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann are 5 under and Bryson DeChambeau and Cam Smith are 4 under.

On the team side, Torque GC is 20 under and one shot ahead of the Iron Heads.

LIV Golf to create its own stadium hole, inspired by No. 16 at the WM Phoenix Open, at its Australia stop

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

A week after tweeting that exact sentiment in response to the PGA Tour schedule changes coming in 2024 that include several limited-field, no-cut events — a concept and practice long used in professional golf — LIV Golf will be taking a play from the Tour’s playbook for their Australia event.

On the par-3 12th at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, LIV is set to construct a stadium-like enclosure modeled after the one surrounding the 16th at TPC Scottsdale for the WM Phoenix Open.

The daily attendance down under is expected to reach 20,000 a day.

The event will be held April 20-23.

Here’s a closer look at a few renderings of the construction.

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LIV Golf announces one of 14 events in 2023 will be in Australia

The full schedule for 2023 has yet to be released.

LIV Golf has yet to publicize its full schedule for the LIV Golf League in 2023, but on Sunday night announced one of its 14 events will be in Australia.

The Greg Norman-led, Saudi Arabia-backed circuit has established a multi-year commitment to host events in Australia, with the first to be held at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, April 21-23. Norman won his first professional event in 1976 at the Grange.

“Passion for sport is at the core of Australian culture, and LIV Golf is proud to bring its global league to a country deserving of the world’s top competition,” said Norman, LIV Golf’s CEO. The company recently was forced to deny a report that Norman would be changing roles.

The LIV Golf League will offer 14 events of 54-hole, no-cut stroke play events, as well as 12 teams that LIV hopes to franchise and $405 million in total prize purses. The season will start in February and end in September, and events will not compete with any of the four major championships, international team events or heritage events, such as the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Memorial Tournament.

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