PGA Australia has announced its post-Christmas Tour schedule, with four Webex Players Series events, where the men and women compete together, amongst the eight events planned. The brother-sister combination of Minjee and Min Woo Lee host the opening tournament of 2025 at the Royal Freemantle Golf Club, while the 2024-2025 tour schedule concludes with two […]
THERE was wind, torrential rain and a determined challenge from his two closest pursuers on the final day, however it was Elvis Smylie who prevailed, the 22-year-old winning his first professional tournament with a victory at the Bowra & O’Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open played at the Mandurah Country Club. Heavy rain over the closing […]
Jason Day will return to Queensland to play his first tournament on home soil since 2017 at the 2024 BMW Australian PGA Championship on November 21-24. It will also be Day’s first appearance in a PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, where he will join defending champion Min Woo Lee as one of the […]
Andre Stolz has been a regular winner on the PGA Legends Tour since turning 50. By Peter Owen FOR someone who’s been the biggest money-earner on Australia’s Legends Tour for the past three years, and who is comfortably leading this season’s Order of Merit, Andre Stolz is curiously unfazed about his chances of being a […]
KEPERRA Country Golf Club’s second-year PGA associate professional – a young man who knows his way to the podium – recently took on the added responsibility of teaching members and guests the finer art of golf. Jordan Rooke is normally on the range honing his craft ahead of associate professional events but he didn’t hesitate […]
2023/2024 Australasian PGA Tour Order of Merit winner Kazuma Kobori. Following the confirmation of venues for the Australian Open and the signing of a naming rights partner for the PGA Championship, the PGA Tour of Australasia has released their pre-Christmas tournament schedule. “The Chase Is On” as they say for the professionals on the Challenger […]
In a golf club calendar, there are a few main events throughout the year. Monthly Medal, various forms of Club Championships, and the PGA Pro-am, a unique event where golf clubs around the country host Australia’s up and coming, current elites, or legends of the game. In late August a series of three Pro-am events […]
The 2024 NSW Open heads to the Murray Downs Golf and Country Club in the NSW south-west with Australia’s best leading professionals to play for a record-setting prize purse of $800 000. Last held in March 2023, the NSW Open, which tees off from November 14 to 17, returns to the spring/summer window on the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
