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Australia’s summer of golf set to sizzle

Australia’s summer of golf set to sizzle

AUSTRALIAN professional golf is midway through its entrée ahead of two mouth-watering main courses – the Australian PGA Championship and the Australian Open (men’s, women’s and all abilities). Ahead of the two main men’s tournaments, PGA Tour of Australasia players will continue to sharpen their games at the Queensland PGA Championship (Nudgee GC), Gippsland Super […]

How a young star turned his life around and cashed in on his talent

How a young star turned his life around and cashed in on his talent

By Peter Owen AT 3AM on the morning that he would play for his golfing future in a Q-School qualifier at Lakelands on the Gold Coast, Jack Wright was hunched over a table in The Star Casino, nursing a beer and praying that the card he’d just drawn would fill an inside straight. Unsurprisingly, when […]

Pro Ryan Peake making the most of new opportunities

Pro Ryan Peake making the most of new opportunities

By Michael Davis SURELY there cannot be a better comeback story in golf and life than that of 30-year-old Ryan Peake, the WA professional who recently strung together three consecutive victories on his home state’s pro-am circuit. His life has certainly been a roller-coaster.  He has gone from being one of the state’s best amateurs […]

Pro-am champ sets his sights on higher honours

Pro-am champ sets his sights on higher honours

By Peter Owen TIM Hart knows that his swashbuckling, go-for-broke style of playing golf is ideally suited to the pro-am series, where most events are played over 18 holes, and none over more than 54 holes. He’s been phenomenally successful in those events, claiming more than 45 pro-ams throughout the country, and establishing himself as […]

$9 million summer of golf

$9 million summer of golf

TWO new tournaments will make the upcoming Australian summer of golf the biggest in more than two decades with top-level professional golf to reach six states and into New Zealand. The continued expansion of the Webex Players Series will see South Australia host an ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia event for the first time […]

PGA of Australia on right track

PGA of Australia on right track

By Gavin Kirkman, CEO – PGA of Australia IT was a real pleasure to attend the 70th PGA Show in Orlando last month. A stunning event put on by the PGA of America, it was heartening to see the global golf industry come back together in full-flight for the first time since the onset of […]

Smith stays focused until the very end

Smith stays focused until the very end

By Peter Owen WHEN Cameron Smith putted out for a par on the 17th green at Royal Queensland on the final day of the Australian PGA, his three-stroke lead assuredly enough for victory, the raucous crowd on that party hole begged him to toss his ball into the stands, just like almost every player had […]

New face to a new business model

New face to a new business model

PGA professional Troy Alsford has been appointed golf operations manager at Warwick Golf Club – a southeast Queensland country golf course established in the late 1800s. Troy and his wife Kerry recently moved to Warwick from Melbourne to be close to their family and are enjoying renovating a local home.  The club’s vice-president Mary Young […]

Rare chance for club pros to represent their country

Rare chance for club pros to represent their country

THOUGH they could finish no better than fourth, the five golfers who represented Australia in the Women’s PGA Cup in New Mexico in late October described the experience as the highlight of their careers. “To get the chance to go over there and represent Australia is the highest honour I’ve had to date,” Queenslander Katelyn […]

Aussie summer of golf excites Scott

Aussie summer of golf excites Scott

By Michael Davis ADAM Scott is making an emotional homecoming after three years to have another tilt at his home country’s national Open.  Scott, 42, still ranked inside the top 30 players in the world, will tee it up in the Australian Open at Victoria and Kingston Heath golf clubs from December 1-4.  Scott’s impressive 2022 […]

Aussie golfers cash in on PGA Tour

Aussie golfers cash in on PGA Tour

THE current year has truly provided the Australian golfing public with some outstanding performances on the US PGA Tour. Those performances have proven extremely fruitful for seven of the 13 players on the tour. Still, only two Australian players, world number two Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert, recorded victories.  Smith won three times – the […]

PGA life membership for Mark ‘Gibbo’ Gibson

PGA life membership for Mark ‘Gibbo’ Gibson

PROFESSIONAL Mark Gibson recently joined an elite group of individuals when he was awarded life membership of the PGA of Australia. Gibson’s name now sits comfortably alongside the likes of Norman von Nida, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Charlie Earp, Paul King, Alex and Dave Mercer, Peter Senior, Graham Marsh, Rodger Davis, Ian Baker-Finch et al. […]

Aussie golfers locked in for Tokyo Olympics

Aussie golfers locked in for Tokyo Olympics

The Australian Olympic Committee has announced the four-person Golf Team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with Rio Olympian Minjee Lee named for her second Games, and Hannah Green, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith to make their Olympic debut. The golfers secured their spots for Tokyo with their world ranking, with Lee (14), Green (15), Smith […]

Future Tour the new pathway for golf’s stars of tomorrow

Future Tour the new pathway for golf’s stars of tomorrow

Elite amateurs will have direct access to membership of the PGA Tour of Australasia under a new pathway system developed by the PGA of Australia and Golf Australia. To be known as the PGA Affiliate Future Tour, this new pathway will provide the opportunity for amateurs who play in PGA Tour of Australasia events to […]

2021 Australian PGA Championship dates announced

2021 Australian PGA Championship dates announced

2019 Australian PGA Championship winner Adam Scott (Photo by Daniel Carson/ PGA) The PGA of Australia’s flagship tournament, the Australian PGA Championship, will return to its traditional summer timeslot. Following a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Australian PGA Championship will take place on 2-5 December at Brisbane’s historic Royal Queensland Golf Club. Tickets […]

2020 Greg Norman Medal winners named

2020 Greg Norman Medal winners named

As a 17-year-old from Brisbane, Cameron Smith couldn’t imagine winning a more important tournament than the 2010 Greg Norman Junior Masters. Ten years on and Smith has completed another career ambition by claiming the 2020 Greg Norman Medal. In a year of professional golf wildly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith was able to record […]

Aussies on Tour – February 8, 2021

Aussies on Tour – February 8, 2021

A stirring finish close to home has carried Arizona State University alum Matt Jones to the best finish of any Aussies on tour at the PGA TOUR’s Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale. Crowds were down as was the Australian presence with Jones and Jason Day the only Aussies to tee it up in the […]

Australia’s major golf events cancelled

Australia’s major golf events cancelled

This summer’s premier Australian golf events – the Australian PGA Championship, Australian Open and Women’s Australian Open – have been cancelled. PGA of Australia chief executive Gavin Kirkman, ALPG chief executive Karen Lunn and Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland confirmed all three events, which were to have been played in February, won’t proceed because of […]

Australian PGA Championship postponed until February 2021

Australian PGA Championship postponed until February 2021

Following discussions with the Queensland government and key stakeholders, the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia will postpone the Australian PGA Championship to 18-21 February 2021. With a raft of strict control measures in place across most Australian states, the difficult decision to reschedule the tournament was made in hope restrictions will ease by early next year. […]

Drewitt claims first title at Lincoln Land Championship

Drewitt claims first title at Lincoln Land Championship

Australian Brett Drewitt celebrated Father’s Day with his first victory in his 116th career start on Sunday at the Lincoln Land Championship presented by LRS. “I was talking to my parents last night and I was kind of thinking about how cool it would be to win on Father’s Day,” said Drewitt, a father to […]

Australian Golf Centre to unite golf’s peak bodies

Australian Golf Centre to unite golf’s peak bodies

Australian golf will find a new home in the heart of Melbourne’s Sandbelt with a new state-of-the-art facility to be built. The Australian Golf Centre will be the new headquarters for Golf Australia, PGA of Australia, Golf Victoria and Sandringham Golf Links Management. The $18.8 million project, majority funded by the Victorian Government’s $15.3 million […]

Australian PGA Tour set for new ‘wrap-around’ season of golf

Australian PGA Tour set for new ‘wrap-around’ season of golf

The ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia will endeavour to recapture golf’s golden years in this country with a reimagined tournament schedule that will see the tour in full swing from October and culminate with the crowning of the Order of Merit winner in March. The restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic has brought about […]

PGA of Australia postpones overseas tournaments

PGA of Australia postpones overseas tournaments

The PGA of Australia will postpone the Morobe Open and Papua New Guinea Open as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The two events, staged on the Ladbrokes Pro-Am Series and ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia respectively, were set to be played in April and May, but are likely to be rescheduled later in […]

Kennedy captures second New Zealand Open crown

Kennedy captures second New Zealand Open crown

Brad Kennedy has become a two-time New Zealand Open champion after winning the 101st edition of the tournament at Millbrook Resort. Kennedy capitalised on perfect scoring conditions and an ability to go low on Sunday to post a bogey-free round of 8-under and take a two-shot victory over Victorian Lucas Herbert. With twin results of […]

Sim cards 268 to win Qld PGA in playoff

Sim cards 268 to win Qld PGA in playoff

  GOLD COAST-BASED Michael Sim edged out close mate Scott Arnold in a dramatic playoff to lift the Queensland PGA Championship trophy at Toowoomba’s City Golf Club. Sim carded rounds of 68-67-63-70 for a 268 total (12-under par) while Arnold returned scores of 70-64-65-69 – 268. Brad Kennedy, who fired a course record nine-under-par 61 […]

Brisbane to host 2020 Australian PGA Championship

Brisbane to host 2020 Australian PGA Championship

The Australian PGA Championship will return to Brisbane in 2020 to celebrate Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centenary year. The time-honoured tournament, one of the feature events on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia, will be played in Queensland’s capital for the first time since 2001. This year’s Australian PGA Championship will take place in […]

PGA and ALPG Align in World First Collaboration

PGA and ALPG Align in World First Collaboration

The boards of the PGA and the ALPG met recently to celebrate a world-first collaboration, with the two organisations agreeing to an alignment. “Together we can create an exciting future that retains the independence of the individual bodies, respecting and growing on the great heritage of both the PGA and ALPG,” said a joint statement by […]

PGA of Australia launches First Tee of Australia

PGA of Australia launches First Tee of Australia

Brendon Goddard, Guy Matthews (Citi Australia & New Zealand), Tim Finchem (Vice Chair, First Tee), Gavin Kirkman (CEO PGA Australia) Hannah Green, Nick O’Hern with future First Tee Participants Former PGA TOUR Commissioner and the Vice-Chairman of First Tee Tim Finchem and CEO of PGA of Australia Gavin Kirkman announced today the launch of the […]

Aussie Results on Tour – October 15, 2019

Aussie Results on Tour – October 15, 2019

  The ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia returned ahead of a huge summer of golf with a thrilling finish at the WA PGA in Kalgoorlie. 41-year-old Darren Beck overcame a slow start on Sunday at the 2019 TX Civil & Logistics WA PGA Championship to power home in the afternoon, needing just eight putts on the back nine on […]

Queensland Open rescheduled for 2020

Queensland Open rescheduled for 2020

Golf Australia (GA) and the PGA of Australia have advised that the Isuzu Queensland Open will not be played this year, with plans to reschedule the prestigious championship in early 2020. GA’s operations boss Simon Brookhouse said all in the industry were committed to making the Queensland Open one of Australia’s leading domestic events. “We […]

Australian PGA Championship changes dates

Australian PGA Championship changes dates

The 2019 Australian PGA Championship will be played from 19-22 December at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast, Queensland. A revision in scheduling will see the tournament close out the Australian summer of golf the week after the President’s Cup. Since it’s move to the Gold Coast, the Australian PGA Championship has established […]

ALPG, PGA announce collaboration agreement

ALPG, PGA announce collaboration agreement

The ALPG and PGA of Australia have entered into a cooperation agreement that proposes to analyse the two governing body’s operations, assets and services. As the bodies responsible for the administration and governance of professional golf in Australia mutual respect has always existed but a formalised intent to build commercial opportunities is anticipated to strengthen […]

Nisbet cruises to Queensland PGA victory

Nisbet cruises to Queensland PGA victory

Daniel Nisbet has won the 2019 Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship presented by Toowoomba Regional Council in a dominant performance in his home state. Starting the day with a two shot lead, Nisbet won the title by six shots from Deyen Lawson and Harrison Endycott with rounds of 66, 63, 63 and 64 for a tournament […]

Webb honoured with PGA membership

Webb honoured with PGA membership

The PGA of Australia has extended honorary membership to Karrie Webb AO in recognition of her services to the Australian golf industry. One of Australia’s most successful golfers of all time, Webb has proudly represented her country at the highest echelons of the game for more than 20 years notching up an incredible 51 wins […]

Minjee Lee wins Greg Norman Medal

Minjee Lee wins Greg Norman Medal

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. […]

Aussie legends return for summer of golf

Aussie legends return for summer of golf

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 […]

Ogilvy to play Australian PGA Championship

Ogilvy to play Australian PGA Championship

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’ […]

Zunic survives a thrilling finish to win the Isuzu Queensland Open

Zunic survives a thrilling finish to win the Isuzu Queensland Open

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 […]

Pike wins maiden title at Victorian PGA

Pike wins maiden title at Victorian PGA

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 […]

Gippsland Super Six added to ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia

Gippsland Super Six added to ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia

The ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia will bunker down in Gippsland with a brand new tournament teeing off at Yallourn Golf Club (YGC) next year. A proliferation of professional players will permeate the region for the inaugural ‘Gippsland Super Six’ – a fast-paced four-day major competition – and a plethora of community activities in […]

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