LOUIS LIKES THE GREEN Louis Oosthuizen and his Stinger GC team is ready to cash in again in 2025 on the LIV Golf tour. Picture: Mike Stobe/LIV Golf
Image: Mike Stobe/LIV Golf
Louis Oosthuizen and his Stingers GC team are ready to cash in during the 2025 LIV Golf season.
Oosthuizen will be joined by Charl Schwartzel, Dean Burmester and Branden Grace for the new season, as the LIV format allows for both individual and team competitions to run concurrently on the Saudi-funded tour.
The quartet will buoyed by the allure of the big money potential of the tour, and matching or even surpassing their earnings in 2024.
Burmester was the top SA earner on the LIV Golf Tour last year with a staggering $8.7 million (R162 million) and was seventh place on the overall moneylist which takes into account individual and team earnings. Oosthuizen was not far behind with $8.3 million (R154 million).
“I think our chemistry is really good for Afrikaans speaking guys like me and Charl, really good friends since junior golf,” said Oosthuizen
“Branden is a very good friend. Even Dean, you know, we’ve known each other a long time. So I think the four of us really just gelled from the start, and we help each other out with golf and our families get along. So it's a family more than just a team.”
First up on the LIV Golf schedule the event at the Riyadh Golf Club, Saudi Arabia, starting on Thursday.
“Starting in Riyadh this week with Under the Lights should be very interesting, but we're all excited that we're ready to go start the season. Playing under Lights, I've done it as amateur once in Singapore and obviously played last year in Riyadh Pro-Am Under the Lights.
“It is a lot different. I think green reading was the most difficult thing and you've got to eat it straight. There's not lights everywhere on the golf course, so in the desert you can have an interesting time finding a golf ball, but it is different, but that's what Live is all about and we want to try different things.”
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