The noise thundered loud enough to occasionally reverberate through the press room, where Charl Schwartzel tried to sum up his victory in the first-ever LIV Golf Invitational Series event outside of London.
The South African golfer, who won the Masters in 2011, was among a surprisingly high number of past major champions to sign up for the controversial new circuit. He was reveling in the fact that the $4.75 million he had just earned for his individual and team victories was more money than he had accumulated in official earnings over the past four seasons combined.
The music boomed from a fully constructed concert venue at the Centurion Club, soon to be replaced by a celebratory podium ceremony in which Yasir Al-Rumayyan, a self-admitted golf nut, would step up to the microphone, beaming.
