LIV Golf: DJ Fisher does a shoey in front of Cam Smith at Adelaide event

Known as the ‘party hole’ before a ball was hit, Grange Golf Club’s 12th hole certainly lives up to expectations with DJ Fisher getting involved in the party fun with a shoey at LIV Golf Adelaide.

Event organizers have turned the par-3 hole – also known as the Watering Hole – into a party hole for fans to enjoy the action as the stars of the controversial new tournament compete in Australia.

Around 63,000 fans are expected at the Grange Golf Club, the majority eager to catch a glimpse of Open champion Cam Smith in action, and Australian music sensation DJ Fisher elicited a smile from the world No. 6 on Friday.

As Smith walked down the fairway, the musician poured a can of beer into a shoe and appeared to offer it to the 29-year-old. When his request was rejected, he drank it himself.

Fisher, who shot to fame with Losing It in 2018, uploaded footage of the interaction to Instagram, captioning it, “HAHAHAHAHA CAN’T WIN THEM ALL.”

Smith enjoyed his compatriot’s antics, although he dropped a shot on that hole and was off the pace during the first round.

Fans immediately took to the party hole, with commenters heard saying ‘take a bow, Adelaide’ as Fisher drank his shoe on Friday.

Smith told Channel Seven, “I don’t think I’ve been this nervous on a round that often,” with the decibel meter reaching “nightclub” levels when he got to the hole.

Elsewhere, American Talor Gooch has taken the lead in the first round at the inaugural LIV Golf Tournament in Adelaide.

Gooch has carded eight birdies in 14 holes at Grange Golf Club and is now eight under, two shots ahead of South African Charl Schwartzel and New Zealander Danny Lee.

American Brendan Steele and Englishman Richard Bland are five under, followed by a group of seven golfers at four under, including Australian Matt Jones and Spaniard Sergio Garcia.

Jones’ compatriot Cam Smith is two down and compatriot Marc Leishman one down.

Smith leads the all-Australian team, Rippers GC, with Jones, Leishman and Jed Morgan.

Morgan (one over) is one of eight golfers in the 48-man field to be above par in favorable conditions on the sand belt course in Adelaide’s west.

Australian golfer Smith couldn’t help but smile as he walked the fairway on the 12th hole

However, the 29-year-old was not at his best as he shot a poor first round in Adelaide

American Talor Gooch took a first round lead at the inaugural LIV Golf Tournament in Adelaide

American Shiwan Kim is having a torrid time – posting a 10 on the par-5 7th hole and holding a double bogey and four bogeys to be nine left.

American drawcards Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelsen are three down in a tournament that caused spectator problems early on – many of the 35,000-strong sellout crowd missed the start due to huge queues to get in.

Thousands of fans lined up at least a mile outside the one entry gate as players fired at shotguns.

Johnson’s Aces GC tops the team standings entering the tournament, the first LIV event on Australian soil.

Charles Howell III, who won the season-opening tournament, leads the overall standings from Brooks Koepka, who won at the last LIV event.

Howell is one down and Koepka two down in their opening rounds.

The individual winner of the Grange will receive $4 million ($6 million) of the total purse of $20 million ($30 million).