As golfers have been grinding it out for a minimize of LIV Golf’s file $50 million purse on a steamy afternoon at Trump National on Friday, an brisk crowd appeared extra within the social gathering than the scores.
Branding itself as “Golf, But Louder”, LIV actually seems an ideal match for Miami with continuous music offering a thumping soundtrack to the Saudi-backed enterprise’s season finale that can determine the primary staff champion.
A fast sampling of spectators discovered few knew the golfers and even fewer the format or the groups like Punch GC, Cleeks, Smash and Majesticks who all superior out of Friday’s quarter-finals. The winners of Saturday’s semi-finals will face off for the $16 million winner’s prize on Sunday.
Such particulars appeared unimportant for a largely youthful crowd that did know Donald Trump and how one can spot a enjoyable time. The scene was way more relaxed than what spectators and golfers expertise at most PGA Tour stops.
Former President Trump teeing off within the LIV Golf Pro-Am at this time at his course in Doral
“Do you think Biden could do that? I don’t think so” #LIVGolfMiami pic.twitter.com/MWPXHz4xZT
— Yianni Kourakis (@WPBF_Yianni) October 27, 2022
You is not going to see marshals at LIV occasions holding up “Quiet Please” indicators when gamers are able to tee off or putt.
Golfers lining up putts on the ninth and 18th greens on Friday did so with music pounding from a wall of audio system on the principle stage only a chip shot away.
Teeing off on the first and tenth additionally supplied up uncommon challenges with the tee containers surrounded by open bars.
“It’s good, it’s fantastic, we love it, the fans love it,” mentioned Majesticks captain Ian Poulter. “We always hit balls with music playing anyway. It’s a really good vibe, it’s a good vibe for us and good vibe for the fans. They (LIV events) are all the same, we have music playing at every single event.”
LIV doesn’t present attendance figures however the crowd appeared barely bigger than what the common LPGA occasion would possibly pull in.
While it’s LIV Golf’s grand finale, it’s having to share the Miami highlight with Trump, whose supporters are in all places at gold gilded Doral.
It took 18 holes however #CamSmith wins 🤝#LIVGolf #LIVGolfMiami pic.twitter.com/4UpneLYY4u
— LIV Golf (@LIVGolfInv) October 28, 2022
Many appeared extra enthusiastic about catching a glimpse of the former-president than two of LIV Golf’s greatest points of interest in six-time main winner Phil Mickelson, captain of Hy Flyers and Punch GC chief Australian Cameron Smith, the reigning Open champion.
Mickelson and Smith lived as much as their high billing in an entertaining match that got here all the way down to the ultimate holes determined when the Australian drained a 10-footer on the seventeenth for a 1-up win to place his staff by to the semi-finals.
