LIV GOLF ADELAIDE

April 23, 2023

Paul Casey

The Grange

Crushers GC

Quick Quotes

Q. Can I ask you about the ace at 12?

PAUL CASEY: Yeah.

Q. You guys seemed to enjoy it just as much as Chase.

PAUL CASEY: I still smell the beer, though, that's the problem. It was brilliant. Cool scenes, really cool scenes. I mean, what do you say? You know, I kind of lipped out yesterday, and everybody was talking about it, come on, we need one, we need one.

It's never an easy hole anyway. It's not that easy a hole. You can't see the bottom of the flag. In fairness they put it in a little bit of a collection area, but you have to hit a very bold shot in there to get it close. Our eyes just went to the TV screen as soon as it landed on the green. The reception was fantastic. What a scene.

Q. You've been in a lot of celebrations and --

PAUL CASEY: So I was on the tee in 1997 at Scottsdale when Tiger had the hole-in-one, yeah.

Q. You were?

PAUL CASEY: I was, I was working the radios or ESPN or something silly. It was my first month or two actually in Arizona, and so --

Q. That's crazy.

PAUL CASEY: Before any grandstands. That was just the mounds. That was a scene. This one probably louder because it's more intimate, this one.

But I'm not comparing or doesn't matter which one is -- but it's lovely. It's just very cool to be in that kind of atmosphere.

To me this has been such a successful week anyway. Everybody here in Adelaide has had just the best time. They're so starved of world-class golf. I think this is the best field they've ever had assembled in Australia outside of maybe a Presidents Cup or something like that. They've embraced it.

For Chase to give them the hole-in-one I think was just fantastic.

Q. Do you consider this maybe a turning point for LIV? This was a big deal this week. Or not?

PAUL CASEY: I don't measure it. I don't look at it that way. LIV has done amazing things since its Genesis. What I saw in the build last year and then what happened in Miami was a great time in Miami, so this is just a progression of that.