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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Jack Snape

‘He’s too young to retire’: Cam Smith and Australian golf ponder life without LIV’s riches

Cameron Smith of Ripper GC tees off during LIV Golf Adelaide tournament
Cameron Smith tees off at the LIV Adelaide tournament at The Grange Golf Club earlier this year. Photograph: Mark Brake/Getty Images

He was Australian golf’s shining light, a likeable everyman whose career has found the rough. Now, Cameron Smith “may be rethinking” his decision to stick with LIV Golf, according to the head of the PGA of Australia, after Saudi Arabian investors withdrew funding from the upstart tour.

The entire Australian golf sector is wrestling with what a future without LIV – or with a fiscally restrained LIV-lite – might look like, as the South Australia government pushes on with spending $45m for an upgrade to a course still scheduled to host a LIV tournament from 2028.

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