The latest Australian golf news
The PGA TOUR and American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) have announced Australia’s Stuart Appleby and the United States’ Justin Leonard as captains of the International and U.S. Teams, respectively, for the 2019 Junior Presidents Cup. The event will be contested for the second time Dec. 8-9, 2019 at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, […]
Foison Golf Club’s Dye Course in Guangzhou will host three 2019 PGA TOUR Series-China Qualifying Tournaments, and then the Series will make history when it holds for the first time its final Global Qualifying event outside of Greater China. The Series’ third Global Qualifying Tournament is set for Laguna Phuket Golf Club in Phuket, Thailand. […]
A little more than one year ago, Tiger Woods, sat in the media center at the Presidents Cup just outside New York City and told the media that his future in the game was uncertain, unsure if he would ever play golf at its highest level again. Fast forward 14 months and we find Woods, […]
World Number 6 Minjee Lee has become the first woman to win Australian golf’s most prestigious individual honour; the Greg Norman Medal. Australia’s best performing, male or female, golfer on the international stage in 2018, Lee is the third recipient of the medal following Jason Day in 2015 and 2016 and Marc Leishman in 2017. […]
Golf Australia has announced that the 2019 Vic Open will be co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour. The trailblazing tournament will be jointly sanctioned by the European Tour and ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia (men’s) and the LPGA and ALPG (women’s). The 2019 Vic Open will be held at 13th Beach Golf Links on the […]
Our 2019 ALPG Tour and 2019 ALPG ClubCar Series will kick off on 4th January 2019 with an exciting new pro-am on our schedule, The Blitzgolf Curlewis, where 20 ALPG professionals will join 40 of their counterparts from the PGA in what should be a fun-filled, action-packed day. Blitzgolf is a relatively new format of […]
WHO said it’s impossible to eliminate five-hour competition rounds of golf? Redcliffe Golf Club, located within the Moreton Bay region 28 kilometres north-northeast of Brisbane’s CBD, has virtually solved its pace of play issue and it did it within a month of installing the GolfTag system – a pace-of-play monitoring device. Since installing the Golf […]
It’s the same routine every time. Aaron Wise will sink a putt to win a golf tournament. He’ll release a quiet, refrained fist pump—the only faint traces of emotion he cares to elicit—before removing his cap to acknowledge the gallery. He’ll end things with a collegial handshake of his playing partner and go merrily along […]
At a member event at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, International Team Captain Ernie Els debuted a new International Team logo for the 2019 Presidents Cup. Nearly one year before the event returns to The Royal Melbourne Golf Club on December 9-15, 2019, Els launched the new logo with a goal to give the team […]
Learning golf or getting fit seems like a dream for those charged with looking after little kids. But now the Novotel Vines Resort offers a great solution, opening a creche at the club recently. The crèche will be accessible to mums and dads to know that their little ones, aged 12 months to 5 years, […]
Two of Australia’s most iconic courses, Melbourne’s Huntingdale Golf Club and The National Golf Club have begun talks surrounding a potential merger. The National, which already boasts three amazing courses on the Mornington Peninsula, as well as a fourth course, Long Island, near Frankston, issued a statement with top sandbelt club Huntingdale last month, announcing […]
The PGA TOUR and its affiliated Tours boasts a large roster of Australians as members. Here is the recap from this past week’s action and the Australians’ performances. PGA Tour The RSM Classic Sea Island Resort (Seaside/Plantation Course), Sea Island, Georgia Purse: $6,400,000 ($1,152,000 to winner) Next Tournament: Sentry Tournament of Champions (Maui, Hawaii, […]
BALGOWLAH Golf Club, located in the northern suburbs of Sydney, is fighting for its golfing life. The club’s president Bill Colwell told Inside Golf the state government’s current plan for the Beaches Link Tunnel would inevitably end almost a century of golfing at Balgowlah. “The state government proposes to use Balgowlah golf course as a […]
Abraham Ancer, Dimitrios Papadatos and Jake McLeod have secured their places in The 148th Open after qualifying at the Emirates Australian Open. The 103rd playing of Australia’s national championship took place at The Lakes in Sydney and was the first event in The Open Qualifying Series which gives golfers around the world opportunities to book their […]
It was a day of firsts at The Lakes on Sunday, following the final putts of the 2018 Emirates Australian Open. For Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, a runaway victory on the testing Lakes course resulted in his becoming the first Mexican and Latin American to lift the Stonehaven Cup. In another first, Sweden’s Johan Kammerstad became the […]
The PGA TOUR and American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) have unveiled the official team standings for the 2019 Junior Presidents Cup, which is set to take place December 8-9, 2019, at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Junior Presidents Cup will precede the 2019 Presidents Cup, which will be contested at […]
The PGA TOUR and its affiliated Tours boasts a large roster of Australians as members. Here is the recap from this past week’s action and the Australians’ performances. Mayakoba Golf Classic El Camaleon GC, Playa del Carmen, Mexico Purse: $7,000,000 ($1,296,000 to winner) Player Result Earnings FedExCup Standing Notes Stuart Appleby DNP — […]
Australian Ladies Professional Golf Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. BLUE BAY CLASSIC SANYA, CHINA NOV 7-10 Prizemoney: US$2,100,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Hannah Green T15 US$28,888 71 Sarah Jane Smith T15 US$28,888 64 Su Oh T22 US$21,272 47 Japan LPGA […]
The 2019 Emirates Australian Open will be played in the week preceding the Presidents Cup. The 104th national championship will be held from 5-8 December at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney. Golf Australia anticipates that several of the world’s best players, who’ll head to Royal Melbourne to play in the biennial clash between the United […]
The stalwarts of Australian golf are set to grace the fairways of The Lakes Golf Club and RACV Royal Pines Resort when they continue their support of the Australian summer of golf. Reading like a who’s who of the Emirates Australian Open and Australian PGA Championship honour rolls, Rod Pampling, Greg Chalmers, Robert Allenby, Peter […]
Major champion Geoff Ogilvy is returning to Australia to tee it up in the Australian PGA Championship for the first time since 2012. Ogilvy is a welcome addition to the field which will compete at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast from 29 November – 2 December. Ogilvy joins Marc Leishman, Andrew ‘Beef’ […]
The PGA TOUR and its affiliated Tours boasts a large roster of Australian golfers as members. Here is the recap from this past week’s action and the Australian golfers’ performances. PGA Tour Shriners Hospitals for Children Open TPC Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada Purse: $7,000,000 ($1,260,000 to winner) Next Tournament: Mayakoba Golf Classic (Playa del […]
Jordan Zunic has taken out his third ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia title, clinging on to his round three lead by the slimmest of margins to win the Isuzu Queensland Open. Standing on the first tee this morning with a five-shot lead, Zunic got off to a flying start with birdies on his opening […]
Indian superstar and dual Presidents Cup player Anirban Lahiri will contest the 2018 Emirates Australian Open. He will be joined by former Ryder Cup star and popular Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts at The Lakes Golf Club in Sydney from 15-18 November. Their commitment adds another layer to the growing international field chasing the Stonehaven Cup, with […]
The PGA TOUR and its affiliated Tours boasts a large roster of Australians as members. Here is the recap from this past week’s action and the Australians’ performances. PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship CC of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi Purse: $4,400,000 ($792,000 to winner) Next Tournament: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (Las Vegas, Nevada, […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. ALPG Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by CTBC Prizemoney: US$2.2m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee 2 US$203,675 2 Su Oh T60 US$6,022 45 Katherine Kirk T60 US$6,022 61 Sarah Jane Smith T26 US$19,347 65 Hannah Green […]
PGA Tour THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES Club at Nine Bridges, Jeju Island, South Korea Purse: $9,500,000 ($1,710,000 to winner) Player Result Earnings FedExCup Standing Notes Stuart Appleby DNP — — Aaron Baddeley DNP — 23 Greg Chalmers DNP — — Cameron Davis DNP — 61 Jason Day T5 (-12) […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our Australian Ladies Professional Golf member performances. LPGA Buick LPGA Shanghai Prizemoney: US$2.1m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee T9 US$30,642 2 Su Oh T9 US$30,642 43 Katherine Kirk 65 US$16,946 60 Sarah Jane Smith 4 US$6,009 67 Symetra Tour […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s PGA Tour action, and the Australian golfers’ performances on the world golf stage PGA Tour CIMB Classic TPC Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Purse: $7,000,000 ($1,260,000 to winner) Player Result Earnings FedExCup Standing Notes Stuart Appleby DNP — Aaron Baddeley DNP — Greg Chalmers […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s Australian Ladies Professional Golf action and our ALPG member performances. LPGA Tour LPGA KEB HANA BANK CHAMPIONSHIP, Incheon, Korea Prizemoney: US$2m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee T3 US$96,411 2 Su Oh T27 US$16,387 41 Katherine Kirk 65 US$4,608 60 Sarah Jane Smith 4 […]
Eddie Pepperell provided a moment of pure magic on the way to winning the Sky Sports British Masters wire-to-wire, holing out from the heavy rough for an eagle two before battling to a second European Tour title of the season. The victory, which came courtesy of a level par final round 72, means the Englishman […]
Australian golf professional Aaron Pike has won his first professional tournament, taking out a thrilling edition of the Victorian PGA Championship at RACV Cape Schanck Resort. Pike, who began the final round two shots off the lead, shot 2-under 68 to finish at 10-under the card. He faced a nervous wait as New Zealander Ryan […]
Marc Leishman secured a stunning victory at the CIMB Classic to become the first Australian and non-American to win the US$7 million tournament. The 34-year-old Leishman posted a final round seven-under-par 65 to claim his fourth PGA TOUR title and broke the stranglehold of the Americans, who have triumphed in the last eight editions. With […]
The casual golf fan may not have known much about Brooks Koepka when he first hoisted the U.S. Open Championship trophy in 2017. He had only won PGA TOUR win to his name at the time—the 2015 Waste Management Phoenix Open—and was part of America’s winning Ryder Cup team. Beyond that, he was a relative […]
England’s Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston will make his debut at the Australian PGA Championship from November 29 – December 2 at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. “I’m really looking forward to getting back to Australia in the summer and I definitely couldn’t call myself a proper Englishman if I haven’t ticked the Gold […]
Australian golfer Jan Stephenson will officially be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame next year, joining world golf legends Retief Goosen, Billy Payne, Dennis Walters and the late Peggy Kirk Bell as the Class of 2019. These five new members will be enshrined at the World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Monday, […]
PGA TOUR winner and 5-time ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia champion Andre Stolz will make his return to top-level golf tomorrow when he tees it up in the Victorian PGA Championship at RACV Cape Schanck Resort. The 2009 Victorian PGA champion took a break from the game after wrist surgery just under five years […]
Australia’s Most-Read Golf Magazine, Inside Golf, has announced an expansion of their market-leading print distribution model, as well as a variety of online initiatives to further boost the title and provide a stronger voice to golfers than ever before.
Here is the recap from this past week’s golf action across the globe and our Australian Ladies Professional Golf member performances. UL International Crown, Jack Nicklaus Golf Club, Incheon, Korea Prizemoney: US$1.6m Team Result Earnings Republic of Korea 1 US$400,000 England T2 US$225,000 USA T2 US$225,000 Thailand 4 US$190,000 Sweden 5 US$170,000 Australia 6 […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action on the PGA TOUR and its affiliated golf Tours, and the Australian golfers’ performances. PGA Tour Safeway Open Silverado Resort and Spa North, Napa, Calif. Purse: U.S. $6,000,000 ($1,116,000 to winner) Player Result Earnings FedExCup Standing Notes Stuart Appleby DNP — — Aaron Baddeley T4 […]
