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The challengers for the Stonehaven Cup lining up FOR those without a ticket, don’t wait too much longer or you will miss out, with the 2025 Australian Open shaping as the most eagerly anticipated since the days Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player ruled the world’s fairways and greens, or to a time when a ‘Shark’ […]
WHEN Elvis Smylie scored his breakthrough victory in the Western Australian Open just over a year ago, his immediate goal was modest enough – to finish in the top three on the Aussie circuit and earn status on the DP World Tour. That objective was achieved just a few weeks later when the Gold Coast […]
MIKE Harwood says winning the Australian PGA, famously stopping Greg Norman’s winning run of nine events, was a huge part of his career. “It always will be, as I’m sure it will be the same for the person who wins (the 2025 BMW PGA Championship at Royal Queensland) later this month,” Harwood said. “It will […]
In Florida during September, Gary Player was already celebrating his 90th birthday (officially November 1st) with his characteristic zest. With the Australian Open returning to Royal Melbourne after 30 years, the seven-time champion recalled Australia’s golfing glory days of the 1960s and 70s, while remembering some of our greatest players. Andrew Crockett spoke with Player […]
Barnbougle Dunes. WE asked for your help in a nationwide call to action and Inside Golf readers certainly delivered, more than 3,000 offering their educated opinions as to which public golf facilities they believed to be Australia’s best. When coupled with the ratings from our panel, which comprised writers and editorial contributors, industry experts, […]
SELDOM does a ‘gun’ golfer turn professional then go out and win at their first start in a tournament. Sure, some superstars of the game have done it. Now you can add Hannah Reeves name to that elite list following last month’s Ford New South Wales Women’s Open Regional Qualifier at Mollymook Golf Club’s Hilltop […]
Minami Inoue receives the Pampling Plate from Marge Pampling, whose son Rod sponsors the event. APART from a junior club championship, which he doesn’t count because only one other kid entered, Minami Inoue had nothing to show for his seven-year golf career until the beginning of 2025. “I’d won nothing,” said the 21-year-old who has […]
Winners are grinners (from left) – Vikram Pawah, the CEO of BMW in Australia, A grade winner Scott Sibson, women’s winner Sandra Wang, B grade winner John Palombo and BMW brand ambassador Elvis Smylie. IT’S the largest international amateur tournament in the world, with more than 100,000 golfers from nearly 50 countries battling it out […]
Japan’s Asaji a playoff winner in Singapore JAPAN’S Yosuke Asaji captured the Moutai Singapore Open title in dramatic fashion, defeating Korea’s Jeunghun Wang in a sudden-death play-off, while Kevin Yuan led the Australian contingent at the event played at the New Course at The Singapore Island Country Club. Asaji became the first Japanese winner of […]
A LIV contract on the line for Hensby An International Series event and a tournament which is a part of a nine-event schedule supported by the LIV Golf League, the 2025 Moutai Singapore Open tees off at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) later today. The cream of the Asian Tour, combined with 15 Australians […]
Ross Watson studies the layout of the Caloundra golf course – his first and last design project. IT WAS just chance that Ross Watson, who has designed more Australian golf courses than perhaps any other golf architect, chose to retire to Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. By coincidence, it was at Caloundra that Watson began […]
MASSIVE changes are afoot at Port Kembla Golf Club with plans for a considerable upgrade to the course and club. Members of Port Kembla Golf Club and Wests Illawarra have voted on a proposal to transform their golf club into a premier golfing and entertainment hub. They have given golf entertainment company Swing Factory the […]
PERFECTLY placed near the NSW-Victoria border, Rich River Golf Club is set to become even more attractive following plans to add a new 23-room, four-star accommodation facility to the club by the middle of 2026. The new facility, to be known as Reflections, has been hailed as a major investment in the club’s future and […]
RONALD Stewart earned bragging rights as the best golfer in the Brisbane jockey ranks by defeating a field that included Melbourne Cup winner Robbie Dolan in the inaugural BMW Australian PGA Jockey Challenge. Contested at Royal Queensland Golf Club, which will host this year’s BMW Australian PGA Championship from November 27-30, Stewart shot a round […]
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Can a ‘Fox’ steal the Australian PGA title? HE will have to beat a field including the cream of Australia’s golfing talent however Ryan Fox will be on a mission to become the first New Zealander to win the BWM Australian PGA Championship in more than 25-years. A two-time winner in the US in 2025 […]
WITH a global legacy, BMW’s commitment to golf is far from a marketing gimmick – it’s a long-standing, strategic partnership that has been in motion for decades. The BMW International Open in Germany has featured on the European Tour schedule since 1989, the BMW PGA Championship, played at Wentworth in the UK for over 40 […]
HE may have missed the cut, but nobody left the Northern Territory quite as happy as 21-year-old professional Jeff Guan. The young Sydneysider completed one of the most remarkable comebacks in golf when he played his first serious tournament, the NT Open, after losing the sight of his left eye in a freak accident on […]
Victorian Andrew Martin claimed a third PGA Tour of Australasia title in winning the Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship. A last round 71 on a day where players battled 34-degree heart and blustery winds which baked the Palmerston Golf and Country Club course, was enough for Martin to register a 13-under par tournament total […]
STEWART Ginn is in a reflective mood sitting on the banks of the River Kwai in Thailand. He is not long back from a train trip to visit the war memorial honouring Australians who lost their lives on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. Twelve allied soldiers lost their lives, 250,000 were forced into labour camps and […]
The Singapore Open – back where it belongs THE Singapore Open, a tournament with a long and storied history is back where it belongs as a major event on the Asian Tour schedule. Last played in 2022, The Moutai Singapore Open returns in 2025 as one of 10 International Series events to be played on […]
Michael Campbell plants a kiss on the US Open trophy. (Photo courtesy Bernie McGuire – Getty) By Bernie McGuire IT doesn’t seem like 20 years ago. Yet it was a Monday morning in June when golf fans all over Australia and just about every person in the Land Of The Long White Cloud ground to […]
Ryder Cup – the stats don’t lie Keegan Bradley will captain team USA at the Ryder Cup. Tweet
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
