Standing behind the turntables in his bucket hat, DJ Fisher dropped another blitzkrieg of tech-house beats to the delight of the partying crowd. “The sun was setting, there was this DJ set, lights going off everywhere, fireworks … it was awesome,” says Cameron Smith, grinning at the memory.

It might sound like it, but the star Australian golfer and Financial Review Young Rich Lister is not recalling some music festival or heady rave. Rather, he is describing the atmosphere at last year’s LIV Adelaide, the Australian stop on the breakaway golf circuit.