LIV Golf at Steyn City is a key part in the golf league’s attempts to become the truest version of a global golf league.
The Southern Guards are South Africa’s team in the league and have captured the imagination of fans in the country.
Now, they are two weeks away from entertaining their home crowds as the tour makes it’s first ever stop in the Rainbow Nation.
The stop isn’t by chance. It’s a collective effort from the players, government and the organisation itself.
And to date the appeal is working with nearly 100 000 fans signing up to watch their local stars on home soil.
“We want to be truly the world’s golf league. I don’t think it would be complete unless you had a South African team, which is one of the great golf countries in the world,” O’Neil told News24 at the LIV Golf Hong Kong.
“The Southern Guards live and breathe South Africa and they literally wear the flag on the back of their kit. They walk and talk with such reverence and pride for the importance, for the impact, the influence that their family and friends and the market has had on them in their journey, not only as golfers but as human beings.
“We’re really simple people, we need government support and we need sponsors, who matter and care, we need a world-class golf course and we need fans. After that everything gets really simple.”
Burmester will continue his good form this week in Singapore before LIV Golf at Steyn City tees off from 19 March.