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Volunteers wanted for ISPS Handa New Zealand Open golf tournament

Volunteers wanted for ISPS Handa New Zealand Open golf tournament

Organisers of the ISPS Handa New Zealand Open are once again on the hunt for keen golf enthusiasts to volunteer – and one lucky ‘volly’ will get drawn to play in the Pro-Am section of the 2018 tournament. The ISPS Handa New Zealand Open tournament, a tier one event on the PGA Tour of Australasia, […]

World Super 6 Perth event announced

World Super 6 Perth event announced

  The ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and European Tour are set to introduce a new format in 2017, with the inaugural World Super 6 Perth announced this week. To be played at Lake Karrinyup Country Club from 16-19 February, 2017 and co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour of Australasia and European Tour, the World […]

World Cup of Golf field finalised

World Cup of Golf field finalised

Tournament officials today announced a final field whose diverse accomplishments, backgrounds and native countries will make up the 28 two-man teams which will descend on Melbourne, Australia, to represent their countries in the World Cup of Golf at Kingston Heath Golf Club from November 23-27.   The field includes: Six major championship winners 27 Olympians […]

Fowler, Walker, Pan commit to World Cup of Golf following Grillo, Watson WDs

Fowler, Walker, Pan commit to World Cup of Golf following Grillo, Watson WDs

Tournament officials have announced that six-time international tournament champion and recent U.S. Olympian Rickie Fowler has replaced Bubba Watson as the top player to represent the United States at the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne, Australia, at Kingston Heath Golf Club on November 23-27. Fowler quickly chose six-time PGA TOUR champion Jimmy Walker, who won […]

Curlewis Golf Club to launch Golf Academy and Driving Range

Curlewis Golf Club to launch Golf Academy and Driving Range

One of Victoria’s fastest-growing golf clubs has given their members a reason to celebrate, while also providing local golfers and families another incentive to become a member. Curlewis Golf Club has announced one of the most exciting and innovative golf developments to ever be launched in the Geelong region, with plans for a state-of-the-art golf driving range […]

Holden Scramble celebrates its One Millionth Participant

Holden Scramble celebrates its One Millionth Participant

Robert Osborne, from Ashmore (QLD), has been crowned the One Millionth Holden Scramble Participant at Mt Warren Park Golf Club on the Gold Coast.   An iconic part of the Australian golfing landscape the Holden Scramble is Australia’s largest pro-amateur club team’s event and celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2016. As the One Millionth player, […]

PGA announce Western Union Business Solutions as Official Partner

PGA announce Western Union Business Solutions as Official Partner

Western Union Business Solutions has been announced as the Official Foreign Exchange Partner of the PGA of Australia and an Official Partner of the Australian PGA Championship. As one of the world’s leading providers of cross-border business payments, Western Union Business Solutions is transforming how businesses can expand their global reach through one of the […]

Initial players named for World Cup of Golf; Day & Scott to defend

Initial players named for World Cup of Golf; Day & Scott to defend

Commitments from a collection of golf’s biggest stars have arrived and the 58th playing of the World Cup of Golf will feature a world-class and diverse field of 28 two-man teams in a return to its previous format, with teams playing for national pride as they represent their countries at Kingston Heath Golf Club in […]

Rose grabs gold in Rio

Rose grabs gold in Rio

It took 112 years for golf to find a new Olympic champion, but it was well worth the wait.  Great Britain’s Justin Rose followed in the footsteps of the long-departed George Lyon of Canada when he climbed onto the podium to collect the Olympic gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. On a sun-drenched final day, […]

Zunic wins inaugural Northern Territory PGA

Zunic wins inaugural Northern Territory PGA

Going wire-to-wire, Jordan Zunic has claimed an emphatic victory at the inaugural Northern Territory PGA Championship. Firing a final round even par 71, Zunic finished with a tournament total of 13-under 271 to claim the title by two shots. “I can’t describe how I am feeling; it’s absolutely amazing, it’s really want I wanted to […]

Fraser in the lead after Round 1 of Olympic Golf

Fraser in the lead after Round 1 of Olympic Golf

On the momentous day when golf was reunited with the Olympic movement after a 112-year absence, Australian Marcus Fraser emerged from a latter-day band of Olympic brothers with the lowest score of a thrilling opening day’s play in Rio de Janeiro. As a new era dawned for the sport amid the colossal carnival which represents […]

Aussie summer of golf tees off

Aussie summer of golf tees off

Golf in Australia is back underway as the inaugural Northern Territory PGA Championship tees off the second half of the 2016 ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia schedule. The 2016 season got off to a huge start with Professionals competing for more than AU$3.8million in nine tournaments that spanned three countries. Victorian Matthew Griffin currently […]

Strong ratings drive Fox Sports expanded golf offering

Strong ratings drive Fox Sports expanded golf offering

A boost in golf ratings has led FOX SPORTS to expand its golf offering for 2016. With average audiences for the 2015/16 USPGA Tour on FOX SPORTS up a whopping 73% Year-to-Date compared to the same time last year, the network has committed to a slate of new programming set to deliver golf fans more […]

Nike to exit golf equipment business, focus on apparel, footwear

Nike to exit golf equipment business, focus on apparel, footwear

NIKE, Inc. the world’s biggest sportswear maker, announced today that it will ‘transition’ out of the golf equipment business— including clubs, balls and bags, and instead focus on its golf footwear and apparel business, IN a statement on news.nike.com, Nike noted that they  also intend to ‘partner with more of the world’s best golfers’. “We’re committed to being […]

Adam Scott to contest Emirates Australian Open, Australian PGA

Adam Scott to contest Emirates Australian Open, Australian PGA

He’s our Masters hero, a past Stonehaven Cup champion, a multiple winner on the 2016 US PGA Tour – and Adam Scott is coming back to to Australia this summer. Scott, 36, will tee it up in the Emirates Australian Open from November 17-20 at Royal Sydney Golf Club, and the Australian PGA Championship at RACV […]

Peregian Springs closes doors

Peregian Springs closes doors

NOBODY likes to hear of golf clubs closing their doors, but news out of the Sunshine Coast is that Peregian Springs Golf Club has shut up shop just 13 years after opening. Administrator Gavin Morton told the Sunshine Coast Daily’s Bill Hoffman the club had simply run out of money to operate. To many, the […]

Asian Tour, European Tour announce ‘strategic alliance’

Asian Tour, European Tour announce ‘strategic alliance’

The Asian Tour and the European Tour have today announced a ‘Strategic Alliance’ which officially ratifies the relationship between the two Tours. The ‘Strategic Alliance’ follows on from a detailed period of exclusive negotiations between the two organisations, which began last August, and whose joint vision laid the groundwork for today’s announcement. The formalisation of […]

World Cup of Golf tickets now available

World Cup of Golf tickets now available

Tournament officials today announced that tickets can be purchased for the World Cup of Golf when the event returns to Australia for the tournament’s 58th edition at Kingston Heath Golf Club on 23-27, November 2016, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. “We expect to have a world-class field with many top players already commenting publically about their […]

Badds battles back, wins fourth PGA TOUR title

Badds battles back, wins fourth PGA TOUR title

Aaron Baddeley has punched his ticket back into the PGA Tour, courtesy of a hard-fought win at the Barbasol Championship, his first PGA TOUR victory since 2011. While the world’s eyes were on The Open at Royal Troon, Baddeley was teeing it up at the RTJ Golf Trail – Grand National Lake, Alabama, in his quest […]

The Open Championship Preview: The A to Z of Royal Troon

The Open Championship Preview: The A to Z of Royal Troon

FOR the ninth time in 93 years, the Open Championship returns to Royal Troon Golf Club from July 14-17. Founded in 1878, Royal Troon is renowned as one of the greatest links courses. The Old Course represents a stern golfing examination and, in particular, the inward half of Royal Troon is widely accepted as the […]

Chalmers grabs maiden win on PGA Tour

Chalmers grabs maiden win on PGA Tour

Two time Australian PGA champion Greg Chalmers has notched an emotional maiden PGA TOUR victory at the Barracuda Championship in Nevada, punctuated with a stunning 72nd hole eagle. Chalmers, one of the most popular players both in Australia and the US, hit the shot of a lifetime to the 72nd hole under intense pressure to […]

Spieth to play Australian Open

Spieth to play Australian Open

American golf sensation Jordan Spieth is returning to seek a second Emirates Australian Open title to add to his bulging list of achievements. Spieth, the world’s No. 2 player, has committed to joining what promises to be an impressive field for Australia’s national championship at Royal Sydney Golf Club from November 17. The 22-year-old from […]

Hend wins Queen’s Cup

Hend wins Queen’s Cup

Australian Scott Hend enjoyed a one-shot triumph at the Queen’s Cup on Sunday for his second title of the season and ninth Asian Tour career victory. The big-hitting Aussie overcame a two-shot deficit with a final round of four-under-par 67 at the Santiburi Samui Country Club to pip home talent Gunn Charoenkul, who signed off […]

I’ll take even par, says Spieth

I’ll take even par, says Spieth

REIGNING US Open champion Jordan Spieth has suggested Oakmont, host to this month’s US Open, is arguably golf’s toughest test. “I know that if you win a US Open at Oakmont, you can go ahead and say that you’ve conquered the hardest test in all of golf because this is arguably the hardest course in […]

Blizard wins rain-shortened 2016 Lanhai Open

Blizard wins rain-shortened 2016 Lanhai Open

Australia’s Rohan Blizard had just hit his opening tee shot in the final round of PGA Tour China’s Lanhai Open when officials blew the horn halting play due to heavy rains and unplayable conditions. While the rain eventually subsided enough to get players back on the course for a short time, the rain soon returned, […]

A wire-to-wire win for Jason at THE PLAYERS Championship

A wire-to-wire win for Jason at THE PLAYERS Championship

Jason Day has continued to show why he’s World Number 1, going wire-to-wire to clinch THE PLAYERS Championship and his 10th PGA TOUR victory. Carding a 1-under 71 for the round, Day proved triumphant in a four-stroke win over American Kevin Chappell. The victory gives Day his third title this season after wins at the […]

Twin Creeks set for turbo takeoff

Twin Creeks set for turbo takeoff

THE Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club, which for a decade has been a pacesetter in the luxury residential golf market in western Sydney, is set to soar to new heights on the wings of the new Badgerys Creek airport. Following the purchase last year by a Chinese consortium of the 340ha estate—which boasts the […]

Luck wins WA Open

Luck wins WA Open

Amateur Curtis Luck has upstaged his Professional competitors to win the Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open in convincing fashion. Starting the final round with a three-shot lead, Luck opened with a bogey but recomposed himself on the familiar Western Australian Golf Club layout, displaying his trademark calm demeanour. “I had a bit of an […]

Melbourne golfers skate into the record books

Melbourne golfers skate into the record books

It was an exciting morning at Melbourne’s Ringwood Golf Course on Monday 11 April, as an enthusiastic group of golfers gathered to set a number of world records for the fastest rounds of golf played on a Golf Skate Caddy ‒ a feat never attempted previously. Professional golfer Graham Maher set the overall fastest time […]

Scott to skip Olympics

Scott to skip Olympics

Adam Scott has confirmed that he will not play in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The world No.7 said that scheduling and family commitments will prevent him from participating in the games as golf returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904. “My decision has been taken as a […]

Aussies eye Green Jacket

Aussies eye Green Jacket

IN-FORM Adam Scott already has one Green Jacket in his locker and will be aiming for a second when the US Masters gets underway on April 7. Joining Scott at Augusta National will be fellow Aussies Jason Day, Marc Leishman, Steven Bowditch and debutant Cameron Smith. Of course, Day, Leishman, Bowditch and Smith too will […]

Australian Masters on hold for 2016

Australian Masters on hold for 2016

Australia’s ‘Big 3’ Summer of Golf tournaments will be reduced to just two this year, with news that the Australian Masters will not be held in 2016. In a media statement released today by David Rollo, Vice President-Director of Golf, IMG Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Masters was slated to be “reimagined”, with more details to […]

David Klein wins QLD PGA Championship

David Klein wins QLD PGA Championship

German David Klein has secured his maiden victory on the PGA Tour of Australasia winning the Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship in a thrilling one-hole playoff at City Golf Club in Toowoomba. Flying under the radar for much of the week, Klein started the final round 10-under the card and trailing overnight leader Kristopher Mueck by […]

Aussie golf booming ahead of the Majors

Aussie golf booming ahead of the Majors

The world is buzzing about Aussie golf and with the first major of the year just around the corner the Australian contingent couldn’t be in better shape. Jason Day won the Arnold Palmer Invitational in wire-to-wire fashion over the weekend, despite not bringing his “A game” to the final round. However Day produced some late […]

Griffin tops in New Zealand

Griffin tops in New Zealand

Australian Matthew Griffin claimed the BMW ISPS HANDA New Zealand Open with a clutch birdie on the final hole of the tournament. Starting the day two shots behind Japan’s Hideto Tanihara, Griffin opened his final round by eagling the first. With his nerves settled, Griffin went head-to-head with Tanihara all day but found himself one […]

Magic eighth for Hend in Thailand 

Magic eighth for Hend in Thailand 

Australian Scott Hend held off a fast-finishing Piya Swangarunporn of Thailand to win the True Thailand Classic by one shot at Black Mountain Golf Club last month. The 42-year-old Hend birdied the 14th and 17th holes for a closing four-under-par 68 and an 18-under-par 270, enough for a narrow victory over Piya who’d earlier fired […]

Oosthuizen captures Perth International

Oosthuizen captures Perth International

South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen proved unstoppable when he closed with a final round one-under-par 71 to clinch the ISPS Handa Perth International. Despite the spirited challenges from France’s Alexander Levy and Australia’s Jason Scrivener, Oosthuizen kept his composure to win the A$1.75 million event by one shot at the Lake Karrinyup Country Club. Levy signed […]

Fraser on top in Malaysia

Fraser on top in Malaysia

Australian Marcus Fraser curled home a clutch 18-foot par putt on the last green to lift the inaugural US$3 million Maybank Championship Malaysia by two shots on Sunday at the expense of a heartbroken Soomin Lee of Korea. Fraser trailed overnight leader Lee throughout the final round at the Royal Selangor Golf Club before taking full […]

Australian golfers to ‘give back’ to the future

Australian golfers to ‘give back’ to the future

Australia’s new wave of elite professional golfers will help fund the future of Australian golf under a groundbreaking new program. Golf Australia chief executive Stephen Pitt today announced the “Give Back” program, a revolutionary plan agreed by the body’s high performance staff and athletes. “In essence, when graduates of our high performance squads reach a […]

Aussie PGA to attract world’s best with marquee date

Aussie PGA to attract world’s best with marquee date

The 2016 Australian PGA Championship will capture the attention of the world with a prime position on the international golf schedule. This year’s championship will be contested at RACV Royal Pines Resort from 1-4 December; the week after the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne. The two week swing of golf down under is expected […]

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