The 45th Ryder Cup: Black Course, Bethpage Park, Farmingdale, New York – September 26-28
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Scott’s special relationship with Royal Melbourne
IT’S not putting too fine a point on it to suggest Royal Melbourne and Adam Scott have long had a ‘bromance’ going. It began almost as soon as Scott appeared on the professional golf arena in the 1990’s, with RM immediately loving the way the young Queenslander carried himself on and off the golf course. […]
Qualifiers book places for a ‘Vintage’ NSW Open
Sydney amateur Daley Loumanis, who beat the pros at South Wests Rocks, alongside Jayden Cripps after the pair secured places in the field for the upcoming NSW Open. SEVERE weather conditions played a major role, but some talented young as well as a few more ‘senior’ golfers prevailed at Golf NSW events played around the […]
Khan guiding elite NSW talent
KHAN Pullen began his golfing career with the same dream as that of his now famous pupils, travelling the world playing golf for millions of dollars. After finishing his apprenticeship at what was then New Brighton Golf Club in Sydney’s west, Khan grabbed the clubs and played in Australia and Asia with early success on […]
Tee Off Across the Nation: Australia’s 100 Best Public Golf Experiences
BE a part of history, have your say and help us decide. Inside Golf is compiling a list of Australia’s 100 best public golf experiences and we are launching a nationwide call to action. Now in our 20th year, this is Inside Golf Magazine’s first course rankings list and we want you, passionate golfers and […]
Heartbreak for Ella at US Women’s Amateur
YOUNG NSW golfer Ella Skaysbrook has come agonisingly close to winning her way into the final of the US Women’s Amateur Championship. The 19-year-old from Newcastle, a member of the NSW Golf High Performance squad and now playing out of the Australian Golf Club, Skaysbrook was 4-up after 12 holes against the world’s No. 7 […]
Shyla chooses the college route to the LPGA Tour
WHILE Australia’s best women golfers were battling it out in the Queensland Amateur at Bribie, one of our finest players was winging her way to the other side of the world. Shyla Singh, the Australian Junior Champion last year and winner of the NSW Women’s Amateur the year before, was flying to the US to […]
Aussie amateur champ shows the world what he can do
Billy Dowling and his caddie plot their way around the course during the Open Amateur Championship at Royal St Georges. WHEN Billy Dowling inevitably turns professional, perhaps within the next few months, he will do so on the back of an amateur career as impressive as any we’ve seen in recent years. Dowling has been […]
Standalone Women’s Australian Open confirmed for Adelaide from 2026
AFTER being linked to and played alongside the men’s Australian Open since 2021, the Australian Women’s Open returns to Adelaide, with the women’s national championship to feature on both the WPGA Tour of Australasia and Ladies European Tour (LET) schedules as a standalone event in early 2026. The 2026 event will be the first staging […]
THE 153rd OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP: Brilliant or boring? Scheffler’s win at Portrush draws comparisons to the game’s greats
SOME say brilliant, and rightly so, with Scottie Scheffler’s performances over the past two to three years drawing comparisons to the greats of the game. Others contend his style can be described as boring, with Scheffler’s conservative game plan, where he avoids costly errors, finds fairways and hits a high percentage of greens, while doing […]
Minjee joins a select group of Australian champions
MINJEE Lee became just the fourth Australian to win three or more major championships with a dominant victory in the Women’s PGA Championship. Lee joined the select group by winning her third major trophy, a four-under par total around the demanding Fields Ranch course in Texas good enough for the Western Australian to finish three […]
Fantastic finish propels Grace to a major victory
YOUNG Sydneysider Grace Kim didn’t feel 100 per cent as she teed off in the final round of the Evian Masters in France last month. “I actually kept apologising for my continual coughing as I had that tickle in my throat,” said Kim after one of the most sensational finishes in major championship history to […]
Argentine champ makes the most of his second chance
WHEN Angel Cabrera claimed the first two major championships on this year’s US PGA Tour Champions he was responsible for a golfing comeback that most people – himself included – had thought utterly impossible. Less than two years ago Cabrera, the stocky Argentinian that Australians best remember as the man Adam Scott beat to win […]
Bound for Europe, Quayle catches up with an old mentor
WHEN he was just eight, Anthony Quayle’s parents bundled him into the family car, drove for 12 hours over dusty dirt roads across the very top of Australia, and introduced him to a man who was about to change his life. Quayle, who grew up in tiny Nhulunbuy, on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern […]
Rich rewards on Aussie tour
AUSTRALIA’S best golfers, along with superstar Rory McIlroy, will play for about $7million in total prizemoney in the first half of the PGA Australasian Tour’s 2025-2026 season, which kicks off with the Papua New Guinea Open in mid-August. McIlroy will contest the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne from December 4 to 7, an event which […]
“Best shot of my life” propels Fox to Canadian Open victory
Kiwi Ryan Fox is now a two-time PGA TOUR winner in 2025 following his victory at the RBC Canadian Open. WITH his national soccer team watching on, Kiwi Ryan Fox has won his second US PGA TOUR event in the space of four starts with a memorable victory in the RBC Canadian Open. Sealing the […]
125th US Open – Oakmont GC, Pennsylvania: Spaun survives US Open carnage to become a major championship winner
HE had two-putts to win from 65 feet on the final green at Oakmont, however JJ Spaun needed just one, with the unassuming American becoming a major champion in a sensational finish at the 125th US Open. Spaun recovered from a shaky start to his final round, birdieing the 12th to move into contention, then […]
Claret Jug up for grabs
The Royal Portrush course, host venue for the 153rd Open Championship. THE 153rd edition of the Open Championship gets underway at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland for just the third time in the championship’s history that dates back to 1860. The Open was first played at Royal Portrush in 1951. That year, a crowd of […]
Kerry Packer’s place in Aussie golfing folklore
Kerry Packer was an avid golfer. BY MICHAEL COURT with ANDREW CROCKETT HIS love for the game of golf was extraordinary. And as the 20th anniversary of his passing approaches, tales of the late Kerry Packer’s involvement in the game have become almost folklore. Certainly, some may have been embellished over the years, but there’s […]
IAN BAKER FINCH: Champion Golfer Australian icon
Jack Martin, a London-based freelance golf writer had the opportunity to chat to Australian golfing legend Ian Baker Finch, the ‘Champion Golfer’ of 1991 as the winner of the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. The pair retraced that famous victory of more than three decades ago, touched on his struggles which followed, Baker-Finch’s move into […]
A ‘Good’ innings – 50 years in golf and going strong
David Good, now 77, the long-serving professional at The Dunes on the Mornington Peninsula. DAVID Good, the much-loved, long serving professional at the fabulous Dunes course on the Mornington Peninsula didn’t realise it at the time, but he may have well been a witness to history back in 1976. “Greg Norman has just won a […]
Graham Marsh – trailblazer, course architect, golfing legend
AT 81, Graham Marsh, one of the country’s genuine trail blazing international golfers and hugely successful course architect, is back in Australia and living in Melbourne enjoying the company of his two daughters and his five grandchildren. “Whether it’s for the next five or 10 years, who knows? My two daughters, Jenni and Stephanie live […]
Kade’s courage takes him to the top
One of the Australia’s leading amateurs, Kade Webber has plans to tackle the Australasian Tour school next April. WHEN golf-mad Kade Webber was just 12, he was devastated when tournament officials knocked back his offer to caddie in the 2015 NSW Open at his home course of Stonecutters Ridge. They believed the Grade 6 student […]
Oak Point looking forward to an exciting future
IT has already hosted the best golfers in Australia – and come out roses. Yet most golfers in Sydney probably still haven’t heard of Oak Point Golf Club. That’s because it was originally Liverpool Golf Club, hidden away on the banks of the Georges River in the suburb of Lansvale. And it’s a layout that […]
Muirfield GC – one of Sydney’s friendliest clubs
NESTLED in the north-west Hills District of Sydney, at North Rocks, Muirfield Golf Club offers a beautiful natural setting and a peaceful escape in providing an ideal setting to play a round on the challenging par-69 course. Muirfield has a modest 72-year history of challenging players of all levels, the strength of the course lying […]
Lovedale Farm – a laid-back lifestyle in an iconic destination
THE Hunter Valley has long been a favourite escape for city dwellers, prized for its award-winning wineries, sweeping rural landscapes and big country skies. Now, the region is set to welcome a fresh take on luxury living with the arrival of Lovedale Farm, a master planned golf community unlike anything else in the area. Just […]
Rory confirmed
ITS official, Rory McIlroy is heading down under to compete in the Australian Open for the next two years. As detailed on our Page 5 editorial written by Michael Davis, the US Masters champion will tee it up at Royal Melbourne from December 4-7, before also returning in 2026 at a venue yet to be […]
2025 US Open | Oakmont, Pennsylvania | June 14-17
Can Bryson go back-to-back? IT was a memorable victory at Pinehurst in 2024, with Bryson DeChambeau outlasting Rory McIlroy in a last round shootout to secure a second US Open title. That win came four years on from his first US Open triumph in 2020, with DeChambeau showing a liking for what is traditionally golf’s […]
US OPEN FLASHBACK: The Shark and Fuzzy’s mock surrender
DID gamesmanship lead to Greg Norman’s first major heartbreak loss at the 1984 US Open? It could have been a factor, according to Norman’s former coach Charlie Earp. Charlie was on the Shark’s bag the year American Fuzzy Zoeller tormented the Australian during the 18-hole playoff showdown. Some time ago, Charlie kindly rekindled the memories […]
Ritchie Smith – Australian golf’s coaching man of the moment
Ritchie Smith, left, with star pupil Min Woo Lee. RENOWNED West Australian golf coach, Ritchie Smith, has made two life changing decisions albeit years apart. The first was to quit playing the Australian PGA Tour once his wife, Lou, became pregnant with their first child. “It was the perfect time for me to quit the […]
The Tiger Woods effect
Playing alongside Tiger was fun, says Ogilvy WHILE most players found being paired with Tiger Woods in his prime a daunting proposition, Geoff Ogilvy, who won the 2006 US Open, relished the opportunity to tee it up with the 15-time major winner. “I liked playing with Tiger and mostly played well when I was with […]
Moore calls time on a remarkable career
Ossie Moore has announced his retirement from the golfing industry. WHEN golf professional Ossie Moore blacked out at the wheel of his Mercedes sedan not far from his Gold Coast home, it was lucky the car was travelling at only 40kph. Even so, when the Mercedes left the road and hit a tree it was […]
Porter’s talents run deep
As a tournament professional, Ewan Porter was a two-time winner on the Nationwide Tour. LIFE is a never-ending balancing act for Ewan Porter, a man who has left his mark on so many parts of the golf industry. The former touring professional’s first love is his NextGen Amateur Golf Tour, which he launched six years […]
Greg Chalmers – Speed, Longevity and Giving Back
Greg Chalmers has enjoyed a career renaissance since joining the PGA TOUR Champions. West Australian Greg Chalmers is renowned for his putting prowess — the flatstick helping to propel him to two Australian Open titles and global success across a 30-year career. Now, thanks to impressive gains in clubhead speed, he’s poised to keep cashing […]
Min Woo a winner on the PGA TOUR
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 […]
The 2025 US Masters: Rory’s ‘Grandest’ win of all
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 […]
US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP – Will a sixth Aussie lift the Wanamaker?
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 […]
Crowe books a return trip to St Andrews
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 […]
Rhodes records a win in Wollongong
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 […]
The big Aussie improvers for 2024/2025
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 […]
