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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Somers (far right) now keeps himself busy as the General Manager at the popular Melbourne Golf Academy. VAUGHAN Somers reckons golf is the toughest game in the world from the time you pick up a club. “For a start, it’s the most ill-designed bat in sport,” he says with the trademark dry Queensland sense […]
FIVE years ago, Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club’s top amateur Darcy Habgood left Australia for America to study and play college golf at Washington State University with a desire to eventually take the giant leap into playing professional golf. The 25-year-old gave it a red-hot go in a sport where only the very best players […]
The International Series has added another exciting new destination to its groundbreaking schedule for the 2025 season with International Series Cambodia presented by Royal Group unveiled as the latest addition to a sweeping calendar of new territories and established golf markets. The International Series will make its debut in one of golf’s emerging markets at […]
FastScripts by ASAP Sports THE MODERATOR: We’ll go ahead and get started. We want to congratulate you on being named International Team captain for the 2026 Presidents Cup coming to Medinah. Can you just start us off with your excitement to be moving forward as International Team captain? GEOFF OGILVY: Look, yeah, it’s an incredible […]
Australian Karl Vilips, a winner in Puerto Rico in just his fourth start on the PGA TOUR. FOR Australian Karl Vilips, while it has seemingly happened very quickly, it’s also been a long time coming. A child prodigy, who won two US Kids Championships at seven and nine years of age, then a Callaway Junior […]
