The latest Australian golf news
ESTABLISHED stars, a sprinkling of international talent and a crop of young guns ready to make their mark all adds up to an exciting summer of golf. Jason Day is heading home to Queensland to play his first tournament on Australian soil since 2017 when he contests the BMW PGA Championship, where he will be […]
JUST weeks after confirming her participation in the upcoming ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open, Hannah Green has claimed her third LPGA Tour title in 2024 with a victory at the BMW Ladies Championship in Korea. In a tournament played at the Seowon Valley Country Club, Green birdied the difficult 17th hole in posting a 19-under […]
PGA Australia has announced its post-Christmas Tour schedule, with four Webex Players Series events, where the men and women compete together, amongst the eight events planned. The brother-sister combination of Minjee and Min Woo Lee host the opening tournament of 2025 at the Royal Freemantle Golf Club, while the 2024-2025 tour schedule concludes with two […]
US PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has reached out to young Aussie golfer Jeffrey Guan who was released from the Sydney Eye Hospital in early October after being struck by an errant golf ball during a pro-am tournament on the NSW south coast. The freak accident occurred at a pro-am in Bateman’s Bay and just […]
RORY McIlroy is heading Down Under. But don’t get too excited because the four-time major champion is going to bypass Australia and head for New Zealand in the next few weeks. It will be the first time in his professional career that McIlroy has headed to the Shaky Isles. And sadly for golf fans the […]
THERE was wind, torrential rain and a determined challenge from his two closest pursuers on the final day, however it was Elvis Smylie who prevailed, the 22-year-old winning his first professional tournament with a victory at the Bowra & O’Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open played at the Mandurah Country Club. Heavy rain over the closing […]
Australian Amateur Champion Quinn Croker has made the jump into the professional ranks. AUSSIE young guns Jasper Stubbs, Quinn Croker and Phoenix Campbell have turned professional after competing in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Japan in early October. The trio were part of a seven-strong Australian contingent at the Asia-Pacific, won by China’s Wenyi Ding, […]
Metropolitan’s venerated teaching professional, Brian Twite, is now 98 years old and as such the oldest living player who took part in the 1951 Open Championship at Royal Portrush in County Antrum, Northern Ireland. It was the first time the event had been played outside Scotland or England. Metro members led by Damian Quirk, eager […]
Karl Vilips is headed for the PGA TOUR in 2025. Rookie Australian professional Karl Vilips has qualified for the PGA TOUR in 2025 after finishing 19th on the Korn Ferry Tour moneylist following the season-ending Tour Championship. Featured in the September edition of Inside Golf, the 22-year-old Vilips posted top 15 finishes in each of […]
Cam Smith is a confirmed starter in three Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia events this summer. Smith commits to three Aussie tournaments Cameron Smith has officially confirmed his participation in three events during the upcoming Australian summer of golf, with the Queenslander set to play the NSW Open, Queensland PGA and BMW Australian PGA Championships. […]
Jason Day will return to Queensland to play his first tournament on home soil since 2017 at the 2024 BMW Australian PGA Championship on November 21-24. It will also be Day’s first appearance in a PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, where he will join defending champion Min Woo Lee as one of the […]
Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and South Africa’s Ashleigh Buhai have confirmed they will defend their titles at the 2024 ISPS HANDA Australian Open to be held in Melbourne at Kingston Heath and The Victoria Golf Club’s from November 28 to December 1. Claiming her second consecutive Patricia Bridges Bowl in 2023, after winning across the same […]
Australian Travis Smyth is relishing the prospect of a late-season rankings charge on The International Series, as the Sydney professional goes into the final six tournaments of the year fuelled in large part by a transformation in his approach to diet. The 29-year-old is currently on a hot streak after finishing in a tie for […]
IT’S around about now when smart golf travellers start planning their bucket-list golf adventure to one of the four majors. If your choice is to attend the 153rd Open Championship (July 14-20, 2025) at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland it would be wise to start planning, and saving, especially for accommodation. If this year’s accommodation […]
Simon Hawkes will be the defending champion at the upcoming WA Open at what will be the 100th staging of the event. Bowra & O’Dea Funeral Directors and Nexus Advisernet have been confirmed as co-naming rights partners of the upcoming WA Open. GolfWA’s showpiece event tees off on October 17 for what will be the […]
YOUNG Chase Oberle couldn’t hide his disappointment after posting rounds of 73, 73 and 72 in the strokeplay stage of the Queensland Amateur Championship at Bribie Island in early September. It hadn’t occurred to him that shooting two over par for 54 holes on a tight, tough golf course, against some of the best amateurs […]
GOLD, to go with silver and bronze for star Kiwi New Zealand star Lydia Ko now has a complete set of Olympic medals after claiming the gold with a victory at the women’s golf event at the Paris Olympic Games. In her third Olympic Games, Ko won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro, then […]
Underdog Internationals looking to upstage the Americans LED by world number six Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, buoyed by the likely inclusion of a couple of local stars, along with the addition of up to four Australians, and the International Team will be looking to take down the hot favourite Americans at the 15th staging of the […]
Andre Stolz has been a regular winner on the PGA Legends Tour since turning 50. By Peter Owen FOR someone who’s been the biggest money-earner on Australia’s Legends Tour for the past three years, and who is comfortably leading this season’s Order of Merit, Andre Stolz is curiously unfazed about his chances of being a […]
KEPERRA Country Golf Club’s second-year PGA associate professional – a young man who knows his way to the podium – recently took on the added responsibility of teaching members and guests the finer art of golf. Jordan Rooke is normally on the range honing his craft ahead of associate professional events but he didn’t hesitate […]
THE records continue to tumble for remarkable Victorian amateur Nadene Gole. The 55-year-old has been playing the best golf of her life for the past couple of years and last month capped it all off when she grabbed another slice of history. Gole became the first Australian to win the R & A Senior Women’s […]
A remarkable 50-year career on the European Tour has come to an end for German Bernhard Langer. By Rob Willis The curtain came down on a European Tour career spanning 50 years and 513 tournaments when Bernhard Langer played his final DP World Tour event at the BMW International Open in his native Germany. Langer, […]
A victory for Xander Schauffele at Royal Troon made it a clean sweep of the major championships for American golfers in 2024, somewhat remarkably the first time US professionals have managed to claim all four titles since 1982. Following on from Scottie Scheffler’s victory at the Masters, Bryson DeChambeau taking out the US Open, and […]
A 10th place finish at the Open Championship, backing up his runners-up placing at the Scottish Open the previous week has moved Adam Scott into position to be one of six automatic qualifiers for the upcoming President’s Cup. Scott, who would be making his 11th appearance in the bi-annual matches against the US, moved from […]
By Peter Owen HE’S been in the golf industry since he was 12, played in Arnold Palmer’s Australian Open in 1966 and is closing in on 60 years as a member of the PGA of Australia, so it’s no surprise that Denis Brosnan should confess his love of the game. “It’s all I’ve ever done, […]
Watching Bryson DeChambeau win the US Open came at quite the cost. HAVE you ever wondered what it costs to attend one of the four major championships including the course entry fee, food and beverages? Recently, data analysts at Sports Talk Philly calculated the cost of attending all four golf majors, including the average price […]
2023/2024 Australasian PGA Tour Order of Merit winner Kazuma Kobori. Following the confirmation of venues for the Australian Open and the signing of a naming rights partner for the PGA Championship, the PGA Tour of Australasia has released their pre-Christmas tournament schedule. “The Chase Is On” as they say for the professionals on the Challenger […]
In a golf club calendar, there are a few main events throughout the year. Monthly Medal, various forms of Club Championships, and the PGA Pro-am, a unique event where golf clubs around the country host Australia’s up and coming, current elites, or legends of the game. In late August a series of three Pro-am events […]
The 2024 NSW Open heads to the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club in the NSW south-west with Australia’s best leading professionals to play for a record-setting prize purse of $800 000. Last held in March 2023, the NSW Open, which tees off from November 14 to 17, returns to the spring/summer window on the […]
Kim denied second LPGA success Sydney’s Grace Kim has suffered a heartbreaking playoff defeat to be denied a second LPGA Tour win at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan. Kim began the final round at Blythefield Country Club with a five-stroke lead, an advantage erased completely by the time she stepped onto the fifth tee. […]
By Rob Willis IT began at the 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, when Adam Scott finished in a tie for 47th in his major championship debut. While no doubt a young player of promise, little did he, or anyone else in the golfing world for that matter, know it would be […]
By Peter Owen HE’S probably the best-known and most popular caddie in the golf world. And if you think Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan has been around forever, you’re not far off the mark. Cowan, with his trademark bushy white moustache and hippety-hop gait, has been lugging the heavy bags of some of the world’s best golfers […]
The famous ‘Postage Stamp’ the par three eighth hole at Royal Troon. FOR the 10th time in 101 years, the Open Championship returns to Royal Troon Golf Club from July 18-21. Founded in 1878, Royal Troon is renowned as one of the greatest links courses. The Old Course represents a stern golfing examination and, in […]
0 pounds was on offer for the first three Open Championships (1860-61-62). 2 Claret Jugs have been lifted by eight players including Greg Norman. 3 left-handers have won The Open Championship – Kiwi Bob Charles (1963), Phil Mickelson (2013) and Brian Harman (2023). And 3 is the number of decades spanning Gary Player’s Open victories […]
Greg Chalmers, playing in the last group on the last day, was in contention until the closing holes at the recent PGA Senior Championship. By Peter Owen GREG Chalmers, the neat left-hander who has twice won the Australian Open, has never been known for his length off the tee, relying instead on crisp iron play […]
IT was an emotional day for Kathie Shearer, her sons Bobby and Brett and grandson, Jake, as the family recently unveiled a statue to honour her late husband Bob, at his beloved Southern Golf Club. Fittingly, as guests gathered to get their first glimpse of the amazing life size work of Shearer powering a six […]
Warwick Butler (left) is congratulated by Tumut Golf Club president Peter Linnegar. TUMUT golfer Warwick Butler may not be living the dream . . . but he’s about to. Butler is heading for the Open Championship at Royal Troon, thanks to a nationwide competition run by Golf Australia. It was appropriately called ‘Play 9’ and […]
By Peter Owen PLAYING perhaps the best golf of her career, Queensland’s Katelyn Must has some unfinished business to clean up after being selected in Australia’s team to contest the Women’s PGA Cup in the United States in October. Must was a member of the Australian team which finished fourth behind the US and Canada […]
BUBBLY, effervescent, ever-smiling and above all a golfer of enormous talent. The loss of 24-year-old Doey Choi in a motor bike accident last month left the golf world in mourning at the tragic loss of such a popular and talented young golfer. Her shattered coach John Serhan told 7NEWS that Choi was an “effervescent character […]
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