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By Raquel Stevens World No 3 Minjee Lee is ready to kick off her 2026 season with a bang as she prepares to return to the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore. Recently from her home in Perth, the Australian star shared her excitement about returning to one of her favourite stops on the LPGA Tour, reflecting on a […]
AFTER his departure from the LIV Golf Tour, came the announcement that Brooks Koepka, a five-time major championship winner, would return to the PGA TOUR as early as the Farmers Insurance Open on January 29. One of the original ‘defectors’ to LIV when the breakaway tour was established, Koepka took advantage of the Returning Member […]
BRAD Burns, the busiest and best player on Australia’s Legends Tour, has given his rivals a rare glimpse of hope – he’s thinking about giving it away. Not straight away, but perhaps in a year or two. Burns, who wrapped up his sixth Legends Tour Order of Merit in mid-December, said the combined effects of […]
Jumbo Ozaki, the most successful player in the history of the Japanese progressional golf tour, passed away in December, aged 78. Masashi “Jumbo” Ozaki, the winningest Japanese golf professional in history, passed away on December 23 at the age of 78. Nicknamed for his physical presence and length off the tee, Ozaki amassed 94 career […]
Back home for Christmas, Cassie Porter retained her card on the LPGA Tour and has her sights set on a successful 2026 season. ASKED to reflect on her first season on the LPGA Tour, during which she recorded two top 10 finishes and earned more than $410,000, Cassie Porter pauses for a moment to consider. […]
WHEN Steve McMahon wandered into the bar of Ipswich’s old North Star Hotel way back in 1975 and told the bemused barmaid, ‘I reckon I could pour a pretty good beer,’ he had no idea he was about to begin a career that would see him manage golf clubs for the best part of the […]
ASK any serious golfer and he (or she) will agree . . . a par round beats a hole in one every day of the week. And to shoot one at the age of 90, well, a golf round doesn’t get much better than that. Roseville’s John Todd is, quite simply, a golfing marvel. As […]
CHAMPIONS: Siblings Matt and Kiara Frohmuller show off their record-breaking scorecards. GOLF is no stranger to family success stories, but every so often the game produces a moment that raises eyebrows. Wolston Park Golf Club near Brisbane may have witnessed one such occasion during its January monthly medal when a brother and sister achieved a […]
FOR a bloke whose idea of recreation is paddling his surf ski 27km across the ocean from Rottnest Island to Fremantle’s Sorrento Beach, playing a round of golf at Brisbane’s Virginia Golf Club on a Tuesday morning must seem as challenging as mowing the lawn. It certainly seemed that way when Mark Gardner, a 40-year-old […]
GOLFERS across Australia will be familiar with the Sunshine Coast Classic—a hugely popular destination tournament that continues to attract strong interest from players looking for a professionally run, enjoyable week of golf in one of the country’s favourite golfing regions. In 2026, the team behind the Sunshine Coast Classic is expanding its tournament offering with […]
TRENTHAM Golf Club’s most famous hole has added another chapter to its folklore, this time written by a teenager playing his very first competitive round. Seventeen-year-old Harrison Kenton-Barnes produced a moment to remember when he scored a hole-in-one on the 112-metre par-3 13th hole, the same hole made legendary by the late Jim McCormack, who […]
David Lilley, Kevin Delayney and Kerry Stait, all made hole in ones on the same day, but on different holes, at Bathurst Golf Club. IT was almost like a scene from that famous movie Groundhog Day at Bathurst Golf Club last month. Every time General Manager Brad Constable turned around there was another hole-in-one. Of […]
Minjee amongst nine of the women’s world’s top 10 to compete in ‘Asia’s Major’ A star-studded field, one including Australian Minjee Lee and nine of the world’s top 10 players have confirmed to compete at Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore from February 26 to March 1 in the 2026 HSBC Women’s World Championship. Alongside Lee, […]
THE CROWN AUSTRALIAN OPEN – ROYAL MELBOURNE GOLF CLUB Rory McIlroy was the star attraction at Royal Melbourne, with massive crowds turning out to see him play. AMID all the deserved hubris in the corridors of power at Golf Australia following the resurrection of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne, Rory McIlroy had some words […]
BMW Australian PGA Championship SPAIN’S David Puig is used to going places nobody’s been. He was the first person to go straight from the US college circuit to LIV Golf, skipping his senior year at Arizona State University, and the first LIV golfer to be accepted as a member of the DP World Tour. And, […]
BEN An might have won the DP World Tour season-ending Genesis Championship in South Korea late in 2024, but a two-metre birdie putt an hour earlier on the 72nd hole, made by a player few golf fans had even heard of, had much greater significance. Had Marco Penge missed that putt on the 490m par-five […]
Frank Urban ‘Fuzzy’ Zoeller, a two-time major champion, passed away in November. FUZZY Zoeller, the colourful American who famously waved a white towel from the fairway of the 72nd hole in the 1984 US Open in surrender to Greg Norman, only to beat the Australian legend in a playoff the following day, is being remembered […]
Kirsten Rudgeley enjoyed her best result of the year on the Ladies European Tour with a second place finish at the season finale in Spain. NAMED the Margie Masters WPGA Tour of Australasia Player of the Year at the PGA Awards in Brisbane, West Australian Kirsten Rudgeley signed off her 2025 campaign on the Ladies […]
WOMEN’S World Golf Ranking number one Atthaya ‘Jeeno’ Thitikul crowned a spectacular season by winning the LPGA Tour’s CME Group Tour Championship for the second year in a row. Shrugging off a sore left wrist, the Thai ace carded rounds of 67, 63, 64 and 68 at Tiburon Golf Club, for a total of 26-under-par […]
Connor McKinney has qualified to play on the DP World Tour in 2026. WHAT do you do after successfully negotiating 252 holes of pressure golf and fulfilling a lifetime dream of playing on the DP World Tour? For young Perth professional Connor McKinney the answer was simple – jet to Bali with your best mate […]
WEST Australian Minjee Lee accepted a record fourth Greg Norman Medal following a year in which she became just the fourth Australian to win at least three major titles. The 29-year-old Lee was a three-stroke winner at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, edging out Grace Kim to be named Australia’s leading professional golfer in 2025. […]
MANAGING a golf club is not easy! A myriad of details need to come together for a golfing experience to be an enjoyable and memorable one; from the condition of the course to the food served in the clubhouse, from the pro shop offering to the carts that golfers traverse the course in. It all […]
WHEN Kevin Isbester stood on the tee at Nambour’s short par-three sixth hole, he felt pretty confident. After all, the 78-year-old veteran had scored a hole-in-one there – his first after a lifetime in golf – only two days earlier. Not that he thought history would repeat itself. He knew the chances of scoring another […]
Inside Golf’s Andrew Crockett loves his golf, chatting with celebrities and promoting all things to do with charitable causes and the many ways golf assists in raising awareness and much needed funds. That being the case, this month he was in his element when grasping the chance to interview former Australian cricket captain and avid […]
HE’D agree, it was a long time coming. The resume read seven DP victories (he scored an eighth recently) four Ryder Cup appearances, three times on the winning European team while individually boasting an impressive 70 per cent win rate. He is currently fourth and has also been a constant in the top 10 over […]
Magenta Shores on the NSW Central Coast and the Oatlands and Strathfield Golf Clubs in Sydney have been confirmed as host venues for significant events in 2026. The 2026 Australian Women’s Classic, co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) and WPGA Tour of Australasia, with a prize purse of €350,000 (approx. $600,000) will be played […]
Josh Geary and Sue Oh were Vic Open champions in 2025. Who wins the 13th staging of the event at 13th Beach in 2026? THE 2026 Vic Open will celebrate a quirky milestone when hosted for the 13th time at the 13th Beach Golf Links in January next year. Golf Australia announced that it is […]
Elvis Smiley experiences the exhilaration of smoking a ball with his driver off the fairway at the BMW Golf Cup National Final. HE might be the reigning Australian PGA champion, one of the most exciting players in world golf, but until Nick O’Hern showed him how, Elvis Smylie had never hit a driver from a […]
FORMER playing peers of Matthew Goggin during his days as a talented golf professional say he was a lovely bloke off the course but extremely hard on himself on it. “To be honest, he was hard work out on the golf course the way he beat himself up when he made a mistake,” one said. […]
IT’S long been regarded as one of the best golf layouts in Australia. Yet big changes are occurring at the renowned Newcastle Golf Club at Fern Bay, Newcastle, near the mouth of the mighty Hunter River. And one of Australia’s leading course designers Bob Harrison is leading the way as the club has begun major […]
WITH its dramatic scenery, tree-lined fairways, undulating greens and overall variety of holes, the Hilltop course at Mollymook never fails to deliver a memorable golfing experience. Number 38 on Inside Golf’s Australia’s Top 100 Public Golf Experiences, readers and industry experts agreed that Mollymook, located some three hours from Sydney on the NSW South Coast, […]
SO often new mothers feel isolated and disconnected from their friends, work and hobbies. It is a problem for young mums around the world and in some cases can lead to postnatal depression. Now progressive thinking women who are members at the beautiful 13th Beach complex at Barwon Heads on the Bellarine Peninsula have come […]
IT’S the dream of every club golfer to record that elusive hole-in-one at least once in a lifetime. But for 85-year-old Malcolm Coleman, who plays his golf at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, once has never been enough. Since first picking up a club 60 years ago, Malcolm has achieved the rare feat five […]
A group at Brisbane’s Carbrook Golf Club became so frustrated at one of their mates ‘pulling the handbrake’ to protect his handicap that they agreed the player with the worst score each day would have to play his next round using a pink golf bag. Little did the group of four golfers realise their initiative […]
HE’S travelled the world, was a touring professional, became a senior administrator at Golf Queensland, and has been a rules official at numerous Australian Opens. He even worked for a year at the Guinness factory in Dublin. But Scott Wagstaff has a special love for Carbrook, a small golf club situated in the south-eastern suburbs […]
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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 […]
