{"id":6,"date":"2026-05-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/?p=6"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T06:00:00","slug":"liv-golf-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"LIV Golf South Africa Announces a New Era for the Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/braamvibes\/cropped_image_0_1782327300583368204.jpg\" alt=\"LIV Golf South Africa Announces a New Era for the Continent\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>By <strong>Sello Ramosepele<\/strong> &middot; Founding Editor &middot; 5 min read<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When LIV Golf announced that South Africa&rsquo;s Steyn City would host a tournament in its 2026 season, the announcement rippled through the country&rsquo;s golf community with the force of something long anticipated finally arriving.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has produced some of the world&rsquo;s greatest golfers &mdash; Gary Player, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen &mdash; and the arrival of the world&rsquo;s most talked-about golf league felt, to many, like overdue recognition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;LIV was always about reinventing the sport,&rdquo; explains a tournament spokesperson. &ldquo;Golf has an image problem &mdash; it is perceived as exclusive, slow, and inaccessible. We are changing that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The gallery, some 12,000 strong across the weekend, represented the most significant golf gathering on South African soil in a generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The revolutionary golf series brings world-class competition to South Africa, marking a historic moment for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[954],"tags":[973,971,974,972],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-activations","tag-events","tag-golf","tag-liv-golf","tag-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braamvibes.paint-ds.net.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}