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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 […]
The German legend to bid the Masters a fond farewell Bernhard Langer’s remarkable career has seen him win 47 tournaments on the PGA TOUR Champions, the most recent at the Charles Schwab Tour Championship in 2024, 42 times in Europe and in numerous events around the world, including two triumphs at the Australian Masters. However, […]
WHILE it’s still early in the season on the LPGA Tour, Australia’s highest-ranked golfer Hannah Green has all but given up her dream of becoming the world’s No 1 player. For this year, anyway. “Realistically, with Nelly (Korda) winning as many times as she did last year, I don’t think I can achieve No 1 […]
LYDIA Ko, nursing an overnight three-stroke lead, knew that if she played steady golf on the final day of the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa’s Tanjong course in Singapore, she’d win the tournament. “I started off really consistently,” she said. “I hit a lot of greens, and I think that was going to be […]
EARLY this year Grace Kim did something she’d never done before – she took a break from golf. She put away her golf clubs, packed her bags, and took a three-week holiday in Korea with her best friend. No gym, no practice, no competition. Just relaxing in the country where her parents were born. “It’s […]
MINUTES after completing her final round in the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore, Lydia Ko stood behind the 18th green, chatting with her fans, signing hats and clothing, and posing for selfies with admirers of all ages and gender. The session was a commitment she had made early in the day, before teeing off, […]
JAMIE Morrison, a knockabout bloke from Perth, is no stranger to Singapore. He’s been there a dozen times and, last year, his annual holiday coincided with the HSBC Women’s World Championship at Sentosa. Morrison contacted tournament organisers and offered his services as a volunteer. They accepted and allocated him the task of carrying a portable […]
BACK in 1995 PGA Chaplain Graham Lawrence established the Oberon PGA trainee Pro Am to support Trainee Golf Professionals throughout NSW. A successful and well-supported event, played at Oberon Golf Club just west of theBlue Mountains, the Pro-am celebrated it’s 30th anniversary on the first weekend in March. Lawrence, who recently retired as the PGA […]
IT’S appropriate that Wollongong Golf Club should host the Alex Lowe Trophy, an event for players using hickory-shafted clubs. That’s because this popular layout is among the oldest in the state and dates back as far as 1897. The event is named after Alex Lowe, who was one of the early professionals moving from The […]
THE happenings at Scotchman’s Creek Golf Club would not make the New York Times. The 110-member strong social golf club plays at Malvern Valley public course in Melbourne’s inner east. The club is made up mostly of retirees with an average age of 78 and six golfers in their 90’s. And it is celebrating its […]
The Phillip Island Golf Club recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with a Heritage Golf Day. Seventy-five years ago, the first official golf competition was held at the Cowes Golf Club, now known as Phillip Island Golf Club. To celebrate this milestone, the club recently hosted a Heritage Golf Day which was a great day, great […]
Inside Golf went inside the grounds at Augusta National, with Editor Rob Willis conducting an exclusive interview with Warren Smith, host of the Fox Sports coverage of the 2025 US Masters. THE hype is real around the 2025 US Masters, as the best players in the world assemble for the first of this year’s four […]
HAS a dominant performance, at one of golf’s iconic venues, given Rory McIlroy the confidence to claim an elusive major championship victory in 2025? McIlroy was spectacular at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his power and precision there for all to see, and when combined with a cooperative putter, […]
NOT EVEN eight wins in his first year as a trainee professional, including the associate championship of NSW, could convince Jack Wright that he’d made the right decision in choosing golf as his career. But a year later, with another eight wins under his belt and with the inner confidence that only maturity can provide, […]
