LIV Golf's four Australians call themselves brothers.
"Being a part of this team is like we're four brothers that all hate each other and love each other at the same time," Cam Smith said.
Smith captains the all-Australian LIV team known as Ripper GC which also features Marc Leishman, Matt Jones and Jed Morgan.
The Australian quartet tee off on Friday's opening round at the LIV tournament at Adelaide's Grange Golf Club, an event with team and individual honours.
The Aussies will have raucous home support from a sell-out crowd and home-ground advantage.
"We we might have the home ground advantage and the crowd support but at the end of the day you have still got to get the ball in the hole as quick as possible," Leishman said.
"And if we don't play well, we're not going to win. If we play well, we've got a good chance.
"We can't really worry about whether we're favourites or whether we're not favourites ... we have just got to let things unfold."
The Ripper team begin in eighth place on overall team standings after three events this year, posting finishes of fifth, fifth and 12th.
But they have made a pact to feed off each other, as much as the home support, at the Grange.
"We get to practice and play a lot together," Jones said.
"So we get to talk to each other about how we play a hole, certain shots you hit on a hole, you don't normally get that a lot on the other tours.
"But moreso after the rounds and before the rounds we spend a lot of time together having dinner, having breakfast together and just talking.
"It's just good to be with three other guys, three friends, and having a good time together travelling the world playing the game we love."
Leishman described the team aspect of LIV as "probably one of the best parts about it".
"It doesn't really change the dynamic on the golf course for me because we're all competitive, we want to win, we want to beat each other," he said.
"But off the golf course, it has been better than I could have imagined, it has been a lot of fun spending a lot of time with the lads."
Dustin Johnson's team, Aces GC, top the team leaderboard entering the fourth tournament and first LIV event on Australian soil.
Charles Howell III, who won the season-opening tournament, tops overall standings from Brooks Koepka, who won at the last LIV start.
The individual winner at the Grange will collect $US4 million ($A6m) of the total purse of $US20 million ($A30m).
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