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HE has long been touted as a player to challenge the world’s best, with Min Woo Lee delivering on that potential with a win at the Texas Children’s Houston Open. Lee shot rounds of 66-64-63-67 for a 20-under-par total around the Memorial Park course in winning by one shot and holding off the challenge of […]
RORY McIlroy created golfing history with his win at the 2025 US Masters, the Irishman becoming just the sixth player to complete the golfing Grand Slam. In adding a Masters title to his already impressive resume, McIlroy has now won all four of golf’s major championships, joining an illustrious group which includes Jack Nicklaus, Tiger […]
AUSTRALIAN Jim Ferrier got the ball rolling for Australia at the US PGA Championship when he defeated American Chick Harbert 2&1 in the 1947 final played at Plum Hollow Golf Club in Michigan. For the first 41 years (1916-1957) the tournament was a matchplay contest. Since Ferrier’s famous victory in 1947, four other Aussies have […]
A young lion showed he is ready to roar onto one of the world’s biggest golf stages following Harrison Crowe’s win in the National Tournament in Victoria in late March. This 23-year-old captured the imagination of the golfing public a couple of years ago with his famous shot from outside nearby Dunvegan Hotel, launching a […]
BRITAIN’S Mimi Rhodes claimed her first professional win on the Ladies European Tour (LET) with a two-shot victory at the Ford Women’s NSW Open at Wollongong Golf Club. Starting as the overnight leader, Rhodes built on her experience from three Curtis Cup appearances for Great Britain to secure the Jan Stephenson Trophy, finishing the tournament […]
HARRISON Crowe’s win at The National Tournament saw him move up to finish eighth on the final PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit points list, however there were plenty of others who trended in the right direction during the recently completed summer season. Here’s a look at some of the biggest improvers who finished […]
Somers (far right) now keeps himself busy as the General Manager at the popular Melbourne Golf Academy. VAUGHAN Somers reckons golf is the toughest game in the world from the time you pick up a club. “For a start, it’s the most ill-designed bat in sport,” he says with the trademark dry Queensland sense […]
FIVE years ago, Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club’s top amateur Darcy Habgood left Australia for America to study and play college golf at Washington State University with a desire to eventually take the giant leap into playing professional golf. The 25-year-old gave it a red-hot go in a sport where only the very best players […]
The International Series has added another exciting new destination to its groundbreaking schedule for the 2025 season with International Series Cambodia presented by Royal Group unveiled as the latest addition to a sweeping calendar of new territories and established golf markets. The International Series will make its debut in one of golf’s emerging markets at […]
FastScripts by ASAP Sports THE MODERATOR: We’ll go ahead and get started. We want to congratulate you on being named International Team captain for the 2026 Presidents Cup coming to Medinah. Can you just start us off with your excitement to be moving forward as International Team captain? GEOFF OGILVY: Look, yeah, it’s an incredible […]
Australian Karl Vilips, a winner in Puerto Rico in just his fourth start on the PGA TOUR. FOR Australian Karl Vilips, while it has seemingly happened very quickly, it’s also been a long time coming. A child prodigy, who won two US Kids Championships at seven and nine years of age, then a Callaway Junior […]
The German legend to bid the Masters a fond farewell Bernhard Langer’s remarkable career has seen him win 47 tournaments on the PGA TOUR Champions, the most recent at the Charles Schwab Tour Championship in 2024, 42 times in Europe and in numerous events around the world, including two triumphs at the Australian Masters. However, […]
WHILE it’s still early in the season on the LPGA Tour, Australia’s highest-ranked golfer Hannah Green has all but given up her dream of becoming the world’s No 1 player. For this year, anyway. “Realistically, with Nelly (Korda) winning as many times as she did last year, I don’t think I can achieve No 1 […]
LYDIA Ko, nursing an overnight three-stroke lead, knew that if she played steady golf on the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa’s Tanjong course in Singapore, she’d win the tournament. “I started off really consistently,” she said. “I hit a lot of greens, and I think that was going to be […]
EARLY this year Grace Kim did something she’d never done before – she took a break from golf. She put away her golf clubs, packed her bags, and took a three-week holiday in Korea with her best friend. No gym, no practice, no competition. Just relaxing in the country where her parents were born. “It’s […]
MINUTES after completing her final round in the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore, Lydia Ko stood behind the 18th green, chatting with her fans, signing hats and clothing, and posing for selfies with admirers of all ages and gender. The session was a commitment she had made early in the day, before teeing off, […]
JAMIE Morrison, a knockabout bloke from Perth, is no stranger to Singapore. He’s been there a dozen times and, last year, his annual holiday coincided with the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa. Morrison contacted tournament organisers and offered his services as a volunteer. They accepted and allocated him the task of carrying a portable […]
BACK in 1995 PGA Chaplain Graham Lawrence established the Oberon PGA trainee Pro Am to support Trainee Golf Professionals throughout NSW. A successful and well-supported event, played at Oberon Golf Club just west of theBlue Mountains, the Pro-am celebrated it’s 30th anniversary on the first weekend in March. Lawrence, who recently retired as the PGA […]
IT’S appropriate that Wollongong Golf Club should host the Alex Lowe Trophy, an event for players using hickory-shafted clubs. That’s because this popular layout is among the oldest in the state and dates back as far as 1897. The event is named after Alex Lowe, who was one of the early professionals moving from The […]
THE happenings at Scotchman’s Creek Golf Club would not make the New York Times. The 110-member strong social golf club plays at Malvern Valley public course in Melbourne’s inner east. The club is made up mostly of retirees with an average age of 78 and six golfers in their 90’s. And it is celebrating its […]
The Phillip Island Golf Club recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with a Heritage Golf Day. Seventy-five years ago, the first official golf competition was held at the Cowes Golf Club, now known as Phillip Island Golf Club. To celebrate this milestone, the club recently hosted a Heritage Golf Day which was a great day, great […]
Inside Golf went inside the grounds at Augusta National, with Editor Rob Willis conducting an exclusive interview with Warren Smith, host of the Fox Sports coverage of the 2025 US Masters. THE hype is real around the 2025 US Masters, as the best players in the world assemble for the first of this year’s four […]
HAS a dominant performance, at one of golf’s iconic venues, given Rory McIlroy the confidence to claim an elusive major championship victory in 2025? McIlroy was spectacular at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his power and precision there for all to see, and when combined with a cooperative putter, […]
NOT EVEN eight wins in his first year as a trainee professional, including the associate championship of NSW, could convince Jack Wright that he’d made the right decision in choosing golf as his career. But a year later, with another eight wins under his belt and with the inner confidence that only maturity can provide, […]
WHEN strangers ask Mark Tickle what he does for a living, the veteran pro usually replies: “I play golf. I followed in the footsteps of Greg Norman.” While that may sound a tad immodest, it’s literally 100 percent accurate. One of Tickle’s first jobs was as a storeman and packer in golf equipment manufacturer PGF’s […]
(Image credit: Getty Images) LYDIA Ko reclaimed her position as the queen of world golf today when she led throughout the final round to win her first HSBC Women’s World Championship at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club. Ko, the New Zealander who was elevated into golf’s Hall of Fame last year after winning gold at the […]
(Image credit: Getty Images) LYDIA Ko, with a round that included seven birdies, and Charley Hull, the English player who focuses as much on her early morning running as she does on golf, have the lead after three rounds of the HSBC Women’s World Championship. Ko, the latest member of golf’s Hall of Fame and […]
LYDIA Ko, the Kiwi star who, at just 27, has achieved more in golf than almost anybody in history, roared into contention today with a brilliant second round five-under-par 67 in the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa in Singapore. Ko (71, 67) vaulted into second place in the event, referred to as Asia’s ‘major’, […]
Minjee Lee plays her approach to the first green in the first round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore today. MINJEE Lee, despite almost losing her ball in shoulder high grass on the sixth hole, was the best of a disappointing Australian contingent after the first round of the HSBC Women’s World Championship […]
Lydia Ko, a member of golf’s Hall of Fame at just 27 and one of the game’s superstars, will be highly fancied to take the HSBC Women’s World Championship, which begins at Singapore’s Sentosa Golf Club on Thursday. But on the eve of the event, known widely as ‘Asia’s Major,’ all anybody wanted to talk […]
WHENEVER Hannah Green returns to Singapore, she’s impressed anew at the quality of the beautiful Sentosa golf course, situated on the banks of the city’s spectacular harbour. It’s the scene of one of her biggest wins – last year’s HSBC Women’s World Championship – and this year, as the defending champion, she’s greeted as she […]
WHILE many of her rivals were competing in the Honda LPGA Thailand this week, Hannah Green has been at her Perth home, quietly preparing for her defence of the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Green, the world No 6 player, won the title at the Sentosa Golf Club last year, birdieing the last three […]
OKAY senior and veteran golfers, what’s your plan to remain healthy so that you can extend your golfing careers into your 80s or 90s? One man who knows something about longevity is 89-year-old Gary Player, who in a long career has racked up 159 professional tournament victories including nine majors and seven Australian Opens. Perhaps […]
IF you thought playing 58 events across the country in a single year, as well as tournaments in New Zealand, Fiji and the United States, was tough enough for a 54-year-old with a dicky wrist and bad feet, just wait until you hear what Andre Stolz has planned for 2025. Stolz, who has been a […]
Geelong’s PGA Professional Darrell Brown still pinches himself when he walks along the practice tee at the US Champions Tour. “I look one way and there’s Bernhard Langer, beside him Jose Maria Olazabal, over there Fred Couples and think ‘what am I doing with these guys, am i dreaming? All around me are legends of […]
GET set for a spectacular showcase of women’s golf as one of Australia’s most prestigious championships returns to the national sporting stage in early 2025 at an exciting new home. The Australian Women’s Classic, after six years at the renowned Bonville Golf Resort, will now take place at the stunning Coffs Harbour Golf Club on […]
THE locals reigned supreme at the Webex Players Series Perth, with two Western Australians on top, while leading lady Kirsten Rudgeley was a close third, in an event hosted by Minjee and Min Woo Lee. In the end it came down to the all-West Australian play-off, with 25-year-old Jordan Doull outlasting Haydn Barron on the […]
HE was Rookie of the Year in his first season on the PGA Tour, has earned more than $US16 million in prizemoney, is one of the few golfers to have shot 59 in competition, represented his country in a Presidents Cup and is estimated to be worth more than $US17 million. But you get the […]
Ian Gilligan, a one-shot winner of the men’s championship at the 2025 Australian Master of the Amateurs. AMERICAN Ian Gilligan and Hyojin Yang of South Korea have held off the challenge of the Australian contingent to win the men’s and women’s Master of the Amateurs titles. Played at the Southern Golf Club on the Melbourne […]
JYE Halls and Rachel Lee are the new adidas Australian Amateur champions after the two NSW golfers scored dominant wins at Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne during January. Lee, from the Avondale Golf Club, claimed the women’s title by three shots over Queensland’s Sarah Hammett, while Jye Halls, originally from Mollymook on the NSW south […]
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