{"id":434856,"date":"2025-05-22T23:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/?p=434856"},"modified":"2025-05-22T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T23:11:38","slug":"south-australian-premier-denies-forcing-cafe-closure-for-liv-golf-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/south-australian-premier-denies-forcing-cafe-closure-for-liv-golf-development\/","title":{"rendered":"South Australian Premier Denies Forcing Cafe Closure for LIV Golf Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South Australian Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has denied allegations that a local cafe was forced to close at the government’s request to make way for LIV Golf parklands expansion plans. The claims were made by the owner of a riverfront dining institution, who alleged that LIV Golf’s North Adelaide move contributed to its closure.<\/p>\n

Cafe Owner Blames LIV Golf For Forced Closure<\/h2>\n

The South Australian Government and LIV Golf recently revealed that Adelaide will be the exclusive home of LIV Golf in Australia with an extension agreement through 2031, but that hasn’t come without some controversies.<\/p>\n

Keep Reading: LIV Golf Makes Bold Move With Australia<\/a><\/p>\n

The historic River Cafe and Red Ochre Barrel + Grill, on the River Torrens in North Adelaide, shut down its operations after owner and executive chef Ray Mauger lost his bid to secure a long-term lease with the Adelaide City Council.<\/p>\n

Mr. Mauger revealed that he had a gentleman’s agreement to extend the lease for the site on War Memorial Drive, which was set to be extended for 12 months. However, a new clause was added at the last minute that gave the council the right to evict at just a month\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

The cafe owner also said that he had seen reports indicating a confidential $50 million North Adelaide Golf Course masterplan, which includes a two-storey clubhouse over the River Torrens in the current location of his cafe and restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just seems coincidental,\u201d Mr. Mauger said. \u201cIt definitely appears to be my building, right on the river.\u201d<\/p>\n

Premier Insists Government Didn’t Ask Anyone to Shut Their Doors<\/h2>\n

Premier Peter Malinauskas has vehemently refuted<\/a> the claims that the state government forced restaurants to close down in order to pave the way for LIV Golf\u2019s move to North Adelaide. Malinauskas stated that there had been no request by the state government to the council to ask the restaurants to close down.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a lease the council has with those proprietors, I understand the lease was put before them, and there was a lengthy negotiation about those terms \u2013 we haven\u2019t been party to that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In February, Premier Peter Malinauskas revealed that LIV Golf would move from Grange Golf Club to a world-class course developed by Australia\u2019s greatest golfer Greg Norman,<\/a> on the site of the current North Adelaide course. He also added that the state government was engaging in discussions with the Adelaide City Council around a lease agreement for the golf course, however, he insists this wasn\u2019t connected to the nearby restaurants.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we speak, there are officials nutting out what a potential lease looks like between the council and the state government around the golf course itself and the clubhouse and everything that sits within the golf course, which is quite separate to those restaurants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf that area becomes available, and the council notifies us of that, then I can\u2019t rule out what happens in the future, but I can, say that there has been nothing from us to the council that says, \u2018can you please boot these guys out, because we wouldn\u2019t mind getting our hands on it\u2019 \u2013 that just hasn\u2019t happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: \u00a9 Jasen Vinlove-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South Australian Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has denied allegations that a local cafe was forced to close at the government’s request to make way for LIV Golf parklands expansion plans. The claims were made by the owner of a riverfront dining institution, who alleged that LIV Golf’s North Adelaide move contributed to its closure. Cafe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5425,"featured_media":434647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,200],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-434856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-liv-golf","tag-greg-norman"],"modified_by":"Ajayi Segun","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434861,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434856\/revisions\/434861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}