Ripper GC LIV Adelaide Presser Highlights

All-Australian Ripper GC members Cam Smith, Matt Jones, Marc Leishman, and Lucas Herbert spoke to the media ahead of the LIV Adelaide event in Australia

yeah I mean it’s just nice to be home
really um yeah it’s a pretty cool
experience I think for all of us this
week um it’s uh we’re definitely the the
the fan favorites around here and you
can definitely tell and um you know like
Jonesy said just the the amount of
support we got last year I think will’ll
be Amplified this year again uh with a
few more people out so yeah can’t wait
for the for the week to start yeah I
don’t know whether it be scared or
excited for the for the week to be
honest um like said obviously uh Liv
Adelaide won the the best golf event of
the year um award last year which
sounded like they got it out of the way
too easy so
um it’s it’s just it’s a there’s a lot
of hype for the week um of I’m a big
music guy so picking out my walk up
songs for the uh for the party hall I’m
I’ve been getting goosebumps every time
I’ve been thinking about what that’s
going to feel like walking out to each
song so um yeah very very excited yeah
well I think um you know the adelay
government um took a little bit of a
risk you know taking on such a um a huge
event and um I think that all of that
has has paid off tenfold um to to be
able to you know have such a massive
event in Adelaide have people travel
from all around the country to here and
uh they really get to Showcase their
their city um and I think um yeah it’s I
mean it’s only a good thing I mean yeah
we’ve been talking about it all year um
it’d be it’d be cool to get our first
win here I think it’d be pretty epic but
um it’s definitely been on our mind we
probably haven’t um ham and egged at the
best um uh this year we’ve had a few
good finishes individually
um yeah but haven’t quite got across uh
for the team so um yeah hopefully this
is the week where it all comes together
um we we learned a lot from last year I
think um and and uh the preparation has
definitely been better already so um
yeah I I think the Australian fans um is
pretty hard to recreate um around the
world but
um I mean you just pick a city that’s or
or a country that’s been uh kind of I
guess hadn’t seen good golf for a long
time um you know it worked last year
it’s going to work again this year here
um yeah I I can see definitely working
internationally um a lot better than the
us because there’s just so many
tournaments in the US and um yeah I I
I’m definitely putting my hand up for
more of an international schedule and um
getting fans out that haven’t seen
quality goal for a while and um you know
showing them what live is all about and
the other boys if if you wouldn’t mind
yeah I think um like Cam said there’s
opportunities all around the world uh
markets that haven’t been hit yet like
Adelaide um um hadn’t been you know got
the the well the T you know that there’s
opportunity for a tournament in Chile um
the South African Lads I’m sure they’d
love to have one in South Africa you got
you know all of Asia and India and um
there’s just so many opportunities and I
think yeah places like Cam said that
haven’t
seen worldclass golf for for a long time
um I think that’s where there’s huge
opportunities you know obviously the the
tour plays a lot in in America and um
and they’ve got that fan base there I
think we can really create a huge
worldwide fan base because there’s a lot
of big financial markets around the
whole
world I guess that’s um that team aspect
as well it’s uh it makes it very easy
for a country for example Chile to
follow the T A Team or or those sort of
markets
um honestly I think by by all the
reports that I’m hearing about about
this event last year and obviously what
I’ve seen so far I think you’re going to
struggle to recreate it um 13 times
again around around the world um it’s
just a special event it obviously won
best golf event of the year last year so
it’s going to be hard to recreate that
303 more times but I do feel like with
that team element um you know with it
being quite a a country sort of um you
know each country is Domin a country
sort of dominating each team I feel like
that is going to allow for maybe a
market where our our international
events can get hyped up really really
really well um and really get behind a
home team kind of feeling
yes um yeah it’s um it’s I think it can
definitely be a good thing and a bad
thing at the same time um obviously the
the support from the fans is amazing but
um you know internally I think uh
sometimes you can get caught out just
trying a little bit too hard um trying
to make a puck go in um trying to hit a
shot close and and you get caught out um
yeah so I think the prep like I
mentioned before has been a little bit
better this year we probably haven’t had
as much stuff to do outside the golf
course which is nice um so I’ve had a
little bit more time on the course and
um you know just got to treat it like
another week although it’s it’s really
not for us this is probably our biggest
week of the year yeah I mean it to be
we’ll make our Monday flights if one of
us
wins
what yeah it would be uh it’d be pretty
crazy if um any one of us won um
obviously we’re all individually hoping
it’s it’s us um but I mean it’s the
biggest T look it’s the biggest
tournament we play all year
um and it’s in our backyard um to win it
would be certainly a career highlight um
and uh and a pretty big few days to
follow I would think okay last one for
me if you guys each have one piece of
advice for Lucas for the watering hole
what would it be I’ll start with you
Matt
hit it
close
cam bring bring your
umbrella Mark just remember to breathe