A sport reporter has rubbished claims by Grange Golf Course members that excessive damage has been caused following LIV Golf

A sports reporter has rubbished claims made by some Grange Golf Club members, who called out a “profit-making circus” and excessive damage following last month’s LIV Golf tournament.

A Channel 7 sports reporter has hit back on social media at claims made by members of Grange Golf Club that their course has suffered extensive damage following LIV Golf last month.

Sports reporter and former cricketer Theo Doropoulos has called the claims “complete garbage” on Twitter.

In a Twitter thread, Doropoulos made a sarcastic gibe aimed at the members who came out against the LIV Golf event.

Channel 7 sports reporter Theo Doropoulos. Picture: Twitter

“How dare those scoundrels host a 75,000 person event and there be evidence of it,” Doropoulos wrote on Wednesday.

He posted photos with the course, captioned, “looks in pretty good shape to me”.

Had some photos of high traffic areas during #LIVGOLFAdelaide at @GrangeGolf sent through.

How dare those scoundrels host a 75,000 person event and there be evidence of it.

You judge for yourself whether the course is unusable for 6 months after “extensive damage.”

🧵👇🏾

— Theo Doropoulos (@TheoDrop) May 10, 2023

One of Theo Doropoulos tweets: “Looks in pretty good shape to me”.

And another highlighting the intact green.

“The claim the course is unusable and will be for six months after excessive damage is complete garbage, and anyone who came down for a look could have seen that.”

Point of this is just to show that the claim the course is unusable and will be for 6 months after excessive damage is complete garbage, and anyone who came down for a look could have seen that.

Negativity completely undermines the stunning job those at @GrangeGolf did.

— Theo Doropoulos (@TheoDrop) May 10, 2023

The comments come after members of Grange Golf Club said they don’t want the event back next year after “excessive” damage to the course that will not be fixed for months.

Grange Golf Club members said their grounds were in disarray after the event, and have not seen adequate compensation for the damage caused by LIV Golf.

Member for more than 45 years, Trevor Craig, praised the running of LIV and said it had put the club in the “international spotlight”, but was unimpressed by the impact it had at Grange.

“A profitmaking circus has come to town and the people paying the price are the members,” he said.

“We’re not a charity, we’re a private club and I don’t think we’ve been compensated adequately.”

The crowd at Grange Golf Course’s 12th hole during Liv Golf Adelaide on April 23, 2023. Picture: Mark Brake / Getty Images

Members did not have access to facilities days before the event, during, and several days after – and have gone “six weeks with a compromised course”.

The damage has been caused by temporary installations for the event, among other activities across LIV.

“We’ve had to park on the first fairway, which damages the grass,” he said.

Another member said there were “roadways all over the course” and the “first tee east is f***ked”.

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