The Liv Golf Rueda since Thursday in its fourth season with a premiere in light of the spotlights. In the middle of nowhere, 20 kilometers from Riyadh, the tournaments tour of three days, music at full rag and shorts add one more component: for the first time it will develop a night event.
The Riyadh Golf Club, founded in 2005, has arranged more than 300 spotlights and 500 palm trees illuminated for the occasion. In total more than 1,000 light points. And Liv is good that to a gun shot, from Thursday to Saturday, his 54 players go out to gun at 18.15, local time, in the gloom, 30 minutes after the sun has fallen. As a novelty and because it is also a decent schedule (10.15 in the morning) for the east coast of the United States, where the Fox, Donald Trump’s related chain, has finally bought the rights. Liv will cease to be a clandestine product in the big market.
The golf, cheap, is not accustomed to the golfa session. At night dozens of exhibitions have been played. Among the first was the battle of Bighorn in which Sergio García defeated Tiger Woods in 2000 MEGAPALLA LED and the Buggys spotlights illuminating the Green in Mayakoba. But just very few official tournaments.
The Liv Golf experiences at the beginning with a tournament that will be played totally at night
In that, women were pioneering with the midnight tournament of Dubai, which has among its winners with the Spanish Nuria Iturrioz, who raised the title in 2019.
“You have the uncertainty that you can lose the ball in the air, it goes above the spotlights and you do not see the full flight and that can create a little tension,” says the Balearic golfer. “And perhaps that the shadows change because you see many in your line in the Green. The light comes from several sides. I like it because it forces me to focus a lot on the rhythm. ”
Risk of losing the ball
Agronomists tell that another difficulty can be the sand of the desert in certain holes, which bury balls that are not seen to land. “You have to be done,” says Sergio. “Even if you have very good light, it is different from the plot and you have to read the Green. Here is also much colder than for the day – the temperature falls 15 degrees – and the ball will not fly so much. These things must be taken into account. ”
“Yesterday was my first day and it is different,” confesses the emerging David Puig, already number 77 in the world. “Some positions around the Green and how you see the falls are quite different. There will be to train it well.”
Mickelson, goes down a pinching
Drop -down
Phil Mickelson, the captain of the Hyflyers, has not been able to reach Riyadh for a pinching while training in Arizona. Its place will be occupied by the first Livgolf reserve, the American Ollie Schniederjans, a brand new winner of the International Series of India. The 54 -year -old American left -handed should be ready to return next week in Adelaida (Australia). Schiederjans is one of the golfers who rivaled Jon Rahm in his university stage for the number 1 of the amateur world.