Former Open champion and Stingers GC captain, Louis Oosthuizen, shares his thoughts on LIV Golf heading to South Africa in 2026 for a historic event set to be played at Steyn City in Johannesburg.
Video courtesy of Stingers GC.
All right, Yui, we’ve made the announcement and live is coming to South Africa. How are we feeling? Unbelievable. It’s been coming a while. Um, we’ve been talking about it probably since 2023. How we going to try and try and do this? And um, so yeah, it’s it’s been amazing um to to get to this point and we’re very excited to bring this field to South Africa. In terms of that, you’ve been all across the world now over a couple years with Liverpool. What impact have you felt in countries where live golf goes there and and what do you think it will bring to South Africa? I do think it pulls a different crowd than your normal golf tournament. a lot more younger younger people joining and having a bit of the fun with the music going and um just just in general seeing a lot more non-golfers coming to um enjoy the experience and uh yeah we want to bring that and and um so that we can get more more people involved in golf and uh it’s a world-class field you’re going to have people like uh Bryson you know Phil Cam Wen Sergio all these guys playing South Africa and um it’s it’s really excited to to bring them um to South Africa. Have you engaged with the players um regarding it coming to South Africa? Are they excited? The other players outside of Stinger side? Yeah, there’s a bunch of them that already asked me cuz um the time the date that it is there’s going to be a week or two after that where they can do things. So already a bunch has asked me where they want to go to um to game farms and to you know going to experience the wildlife and others want to go a little bit down to Cape Town for the winelands. So I think we’re going to get a a bunch of questions and and uh have to help the guys to to to have a nice time. So it is not happening in Cape Town. It’s happening in Ken. You want to give us some insight there as to location and where to be? Yeah, it’ll be at Stain City. Um I’ve actually never played there, but but I’ve watched the golf tournament that was there a while back and really excited. I I’ve heard many great things about it. So really excited to go and see it. I’ll probably I’ll probably go um this year to go and have a look and see how we can how we can um you know help or improve a few things maybe on the golf course side but um very very excited to to go up there and um you know just bring it to South Africa and just in terms of the sporting you bringing this massive sporting if I’m not mistaken it’s one of the biggest things coming to South Africa in 2010 in terms of an international event and I’m guess how does it feel to be part of that and you bringing it helping to bring it to South Africa and Africa? Yeah. Um, look, we’ve been nagging lift for a while now, saying we need a tournament um um in Africa and it makes sense to bring it down to South Africa. Um, you know, and and um I think the last the last field that was that were massive golf field we had was probably the President’s Cup when when Ernie and Tiger went headto-head. Um, so it’s great to to really bring a strong strong field feel to the country and and uh yeah, just bring another sporting, you know, 2010 was such a great year for us and and um to have the World Cup there. Um, but it’ll be nice to to bring a big golf tournament there. In terms of the fans, what can they expect? Because, you know, South African fans, they’re very excited and passionate and involved. The flags are always out no matter where you are in in in the world, but now it’s just going to be South African. what can they expect from watching you guys? Um, look, we I think we expect good crowds, probably similar to what what we had in Australia, if not better. So, uh, we are big sporting nation and then I think it’ll be great fun to see everyone out there and having fun. Um, but yeah, just, um, expect, you know, some good golf and some good vibes and, um, um, a lot of competition. Okay. And do you want an English question? Yes. Okay. Oh, wait. We get
