Australian LIV Golf team Ripper GC has won a dramatic teams event in Adelaide after edging South African outfit Stinger GC in a second playoff hole at The Grange.

Star Aussie pair Cam Smith and Marc Leishman had to hole nervous putts to survive the first playoff on the 18th as Louis Oosthuizen and Dean Burmester both missed birdie chances that would have sealed an incredible come-from-behind victory, having been five shots adrift of Ripper with three holes to play on Sunday.

But it was advantage Australia on the deciding-56th hole of the tournament when the South African pair both found the greenside bunker.

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Oosthuizen took two shots to get up and down from the sand before making a bogey five, while Burmester managed to get out of the bunker in one but could still only manage a bogey.

Leishman then sank a tournament-winning par-putt and Ripper captain Smith sealed the victory — albeit with one shot more than he would have liked — with a two-putt bogey five.

“It is a frenzied atmosphere here at The Grange,” commentator Arlo White said as the heavily pro-Australia crowd cheered every false shot from the Stingers.

The thousands of fans packed into 18 erupted when Smith’s tap-in bogey confirmed Ripper’s first teams event win on home soil, in what was LIV Golf’s first teams playoff.

American Brendan Steele won the individual even by one shot, finishing 18-under par, ahead of Oosthuizen at 17-under.

“That’s one of the most thrilling sporting events that I’ve ever covered in my career,” White said of the tournament.

More to come …