The LIV tour — the most controversial travelling circus in the history of the sport — will soon be on Australian shores, but will it be good for Australian golf?

The Saudi-backed breakaway golf league will land in Adelaide in April for the third event of the inaugural LIV Golf League, with 48 of the best players in the world battling it out for a staggering prize of $20 million.

LIV, which has Aussie legend Greg Norman as CEO, has ignited heated debate from the moment it was launched. Australian women's golf legend Karrie Webb is split on whether it will be good for the sport in this country.

"I guess it'll be good that golf will be in Australia in April when it isn't normally, that puts golf in the headlines," Webb told ABC Grandstand.

"Once the golf summer finishes here the only headlines are if an Australian does well overseas.

"It's good for Adelaide to have a big event, I loved when we played there for the Australian Open for all those years – the South Australian crowds were great support, so it's great for them and it's great to have our top Aussie guys back.

"But in terms of giving opportunities to other young Australians to play, it doesn't do that. It's 48 players who travel around the world and play together and it doesn't provide any opportunities other than [for] those 48.

"If you look at it as being good for golf, in what avenues is it good for golf? Some are good and some are not so good. You can pick it apart any way you want."

Webb said her main point of contention with the LIV concept was how the staggering contracts offered to the world's top players to defect from the PGA tour reinforced the worst aspect of golfing stereotypes.

And while there are aspects of the new tour that could help attract a new fanbase to the sport Webb loves, the 48-year old is not comfortable with the way the Saudi Arabian-backed tour has been funded.

"The messaging from the LIV tour isn't what I'd like to see about golf. Jumping from the most lucrative tour and going to another tour for more money, that's the stigma of golf we're trying to shake – that it's a rich man's sport. That messaging isn't the greatest," Webb said.

"But there are things about the LIV tour that I think are compelling. A team aspect is compelling and that can create new, younger fans.

"At the end of the day I'm not against new competition in golf or new tours, it's just the way it's handled and, for me, quite honestly the way it's funded.

"The way it's funded is the biggest hurdle for me."

Developing the sport in Australia is something close to Webb's heart and she believes the crop of female golfers coming through is among the strongest the nation has ever produced.