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Chase Koepka celebrates his hole-in-one on Sunday.Credit:Getty

“Paul had to wait about 25 minutes to hit,” Koepka said. “I told him,‘I’m so sorry I iced you’. They were super excited for me.”

But Koepka initially stepped onto the 12th tee with a tinge of disappointment after a request to change his walk-on song to an Aussie-pleasing Hilltop Hoods for the final round didn’t happen.

“I actually told my caddie,‘damn,they didn’t put my song on. I’m pissed’,” he said. “Then I walked up and holed it.

“I hit and I knew it was good,and if anything I thought it might be a little deep. I saw it pitch into the up slope and take a soft bounce and I thought,‘oh,it will be close’. And then the roars just kept getting louder and louder and louder. When it went in,I started getting peppered with beer cans.”

Koepka (-10) finished in 24th,nine shots behind winner Talor Gooch,after his hole-in-one helped him post a final round six-under 66.

It’s the third straight day Greg Norman’s Saudi-backed LIV Golf event has been sold out in its first Australian foray,prompting a push for a second event Down Under as soon as next year.

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