Matt Ballin and Ben Te'o are the leading candidates to replace Billy Slater as Queensland State of Origin coach after Cameron Smith and Kevin Walters officially withdrew from consideration for the position.
Cameron Smith stated he would return to the PGA Tour "100 per cent" if LIV Golf ceases operations, though he hopes the breakaway league will continue following reports of financial uncertainty.
Future of rebel tour in jeopardy after Saudi investment withdrawnAustralian golfer laughs off retirement talk: ‘I’ve got a while yet’Cam Smith has laughed off retirement rumours, and said he has been given “every assurance” LIV Golf will continue beyond this year.The future of LIV – and Smith’s all-Australian Ripper GC team – is in jeopardy after Saudi Arabia withdrew funding of the breakaway league. Continue reading...
With Saudi investment drying up, one of LIV’s highest-profile recruits may be having second thoughts as Australian officials call for the global golf ecosystem to come togetherHe 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. Continue reading...
