Staff WriterIf you thought LIV Golf Adelaide was already a bit of a circus with wedges, walk-off wins and more bucket hats than a music festival, buckle up. As players limbered up at The Grange for this week’s 2026 edition, South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas and LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil quietly dropped a bombshell: from 18–21 March 2027 the show packs up its confetti cannons and heads down the road to Kooyonga Golf Club.
Welcome to the next chapter of golf’s loudest field trip.
From festival of golf… to golf in the festival
The shift to March isn’t just a diary tweak; it’s a deliberate play to keep LIV Golf Adelaide wedged right into the heart of Adelaide’s famous festival season – that glorious stretch where the city feels like it’s had three espressos and a Red Bull for breakfast.
This week’s fans get first dibs on that future. Those already inside the ropes at The Grange will have early access from Sunday 15 February to specially priced 2027 hospitality and grounds tickets. Everyone else gets their crack from Monday 16 February at LIVGolf.com, in a seven-day on-sale window for an event that’s been voted the World’s Best Golf Event three years running by the World Golf Awards.
Hot ticket? Think more along the lines of a Taylor Swift presale with headcovers.
Kooyonga gets the call
What are they all queuing for? Next season’s move to Kooyonga Golf Club promises a very different canvas for LIV Golf Adelaide.
Kooyonga’s championship layout – carved through undulating sand hills and manicured within an inch of its life – sits comfortably inside the top 20 golf courses in Australia. It’s only 15 minutes from Adelaide’s CBD, has a proud history of staging major events, and looks tailor-made for shot-tracer porn and drone flyovers.
LIV Golf will now get busy with the whiteboard, working with local stakeholders on how to squeeze world-class competition and headline entertainment into the Kooyonga footprint, with final course and event plans to be revealed later. Expect grandstands, hospitality decks and beer snakes in all the usual places.
Premier Peter Malinauskas, who has hitched South Australia’s tourism wagon firmly to this travelling roadshow, wasn’t shy about how he sees it.
“LIV Golf Adelaide is a major success story for South Australia and global golf, and we’re thrilled for the next instalment at Kooyonga Golf Club in March 2027 as we continue planning for LIV Golf’s exciting future in Adelaide.
“The event has quickly established itself as a major drawcard in our quality events calendar and we expect tickets for 2027 to be a hot property. From delivering out-of-state tourism and economic impact to receiving global recognition as the World’s Best Golf event for three years running, LIV Golf Adelaide has cemented itself as one of the can’t-miss events of the year that will only continue to get bigger and better.”
In political terms, that’s roughly equivalent to proposing marriage.
Adelaide becomes LIV’s Aussie fortress
If Kooyonga is the next stop, the long-term plan takes LIV Golf Adelaide even closer to the city’s heartbeat.
Adelaide will remain the exclusive Australian home of LIV Golf through at least 2031. From 2028, the league will migrate across to the redeveloped North Adelaide Golf Course, dragging the whole international circus right into the Adelaide CBD for good.
So far, that bet has paid handsomely. To date, LIV Golf Adelaide has pumped $217 million into the economy and lured more than 260,000 fans through the gates – with record crowds expected again this week as the event keeps growing like a teenager on a protein shake.
LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil was happy to point to Adelaide as the league’s poster child.
“LIV Golf Adelaide continues to be the blueprint for our league’s global event model as we bring many of the biggest names in golf and entertainment to the four corners of the world. We pride ourselves on putting on fan-friendly events that allow the superstars of golf to shine, and nowhere is that better showcased than Adelaide.
South Australia has been a true partner in embracing the LIV Golf model that is making a significant impact on and off the golf course, and we couldn’t be more excited about the future of this event at Kooyonga Golf Club in 2027 followed by North Adelaide for years to come.”
“Blueprint” is one word for it. “Noisy goldmine” might be another.
New format, new star, same Adelaide roar
Before everyone starts day-dreaming about Kooyonga in 2027, there’s the small matter of the 2026 edition of LIV Golf Adelaide currently teeing off at The Grange Golf Club.
For the first time, the league’s new 72-hole, 57-player format takes centre stage, with fans mainlining four days of world-class golf, festival vibes, hospitality and live concerts through Sunday.
All eyes, for once, are not solely on the usual suspects. A chunk of the spotlight has swung to 23-year-old Australian rising star Elvis Smylie, who turned his first week as a LIV player into an instant highlight reel with an individual victory at ROSHN Group LIV Golf Riyadh.
Smylie also spearheaded the all-Australian Ripper Golf Club to the team title there, and the home heroes are now trying to make it two wins in a row as the crowd-favourite team at LIV Golf Adelaide. Somewhere in that cauldron, Captain Cameron Smith of Ripper GC reacts to his shot on the 12th tee during the final round of LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club on Sunday, February 16, 2026 in Adelaide, Australia. You suspect the volume went up before the ball came down.
Four nights, four headliners
If the golf doesn’t get you, the sound system will. This year’s LIV Golf Adelaide doubles as a four-day music festival with a seriously loaded card:
- Peking Duk kick things off on Thursday,
- Royel Otis takes the Friday shift,
- John Summit owns Saturday night, and
- FISHER closes things out on Sunday.
It’s part driving range, part dance floor – like someone spliced the Waste Management Phoenix Open with Coachella and added more Aussie slang.
How and when to get tickets
For those not already on site at The Grange this week, here’s how the ticket puzzle fits together.
- LIV Golf Adelaide 2026 runs 12–15 February at The Grange Golf Club.
- Tickets are available now at LIVGolf.com, but fans are being warned that inventory is limited.
- Premium Hospitality packages and corporate experiences are on offer for those who prefer their golf with plush seating and better canapés.
- Specialty-priced group tickets are available for parties of 10 or more, making LIV Golf Adelaide an easy sell for clubs, businesses or that one friend who organises everything.
- Children aged 12 and under receive complimentary Grounds Pass admission (one per paying adult), which is about as family-friendly as a top-tier global sports event gets.
All the dull but vital stuff – parking, transportation, accessibility, daily logistics – is detailed at LIVGolf.com, along with the full 2026 schedule at LIVGolf.com/Schedule.
For the faithful, the message is simple: this week at The Grange is the start of a new era, not the end of one. LIV Golf Adelaide is staying put in South Australia, moving to Kooyonga in 2027, marching into North Adelaide after that, and showing no signs whatsoever of turning the volume down.
