ESTABLISHED stars, a sprinkling of international talent and a crop of young guns ready to make their mark all adds up to an exciting summer of golf. Jason Day is heading home to Queensland to play his first tournament on Australian soil since 2017 when he contests the BMW PGA Championship, where he will be […]
Karl Vilips is headed for the PGA TOUR in 2025. Rookie Australian professional Karl Vilips has qualified for the PGA TOUR in 2025 after finishing 19th on the Korn Ferry Tour moneylist following the season-ending Tour Championship. Featured in the September edition of Inside Golf, the 22-year-old Vilips posted top 15 finishes in each of […]
Underdog Internationals looking to upstage the Americans LED by world number six Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, buoyed by the likely inclusion of a couple of local stars, along with the addition of up to four Australians, and the International Team will be looking to take down the hot favourite Americans at the 15th staging of the […]
By Peter Owen A DECADE ago Brandt Snedeker was on top of the golfing world. He’d won the 2012 FedEx Cup, and the US$10 million cheque that went with it, reached No 4 in the Official World Golf Rankings and twice represented the US in the Ryder Cup. He burst onto the PGA Tour in […]
THE 106th US PGA Championship will be played at the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky from May 16-19. It will be the fourth time the course has hosted the event, with Rory McIlroy winning on the most recent staging in 2014. Designed by Jack Nickalus, the Valhalla course opened in 1986. The Australian connection […]
1 over par was the winning score on four occasions – 1960, 1968, 1972 and 1976. 2 is the number of times Greg Norman (1986-93) and Bruce Crampton (1973-75) finished runner-up. Bob Tway and Paul Azinger edged out the Shark and Jack Nicklaus was the man to deny Crampton. 3 times the tournament wasn’t played […]
Victor Hovland embraced the local Hawaiian culture in his first event of the new PGA TOUR schedule at The Sentry at Kapalua, in kick starting a year in which the young gun will have his sights firmly set on major championship success. There or there abouts for most of the week at The Sentry, Hovland […]
IN the second installment of an extensive interview with Inside Golf’s US correspondent Garrett Johnston, Stuart Appleby talks about some his most memorable golfing moments, from winning on the PGA Tour, to his near miss in the British Open, and playing alongside Tiger Woods at Augusta. Now competing on the PGA TOUR Champions, Appleby is […]
Queenslander Rod Pampling, a three-time PGA Tour winner recently grabbed his second win on the over-50 PGA Tour Champions. We sat down with the 54-year-old Pampling and talked about his win, his family, and what it meant to have a number of Aussies celebrate his latest victory. How is life on the PGA Tour Champions […]
HE only took up golf to escape going home to a divided household. Yet Mark Hensby found he not only loved the game, but he was good at it too. The former Tamworth golfer eventually took one of the more unusual paths into professional golf. And the now US-based Hensby came the full circle when […]
PGA TOUR, DP World Tour, LIV Golf merge commercial operations under common ownership Agreement establishes common goal to promote and grow the game globally for the benefit of all stakeholders, ends litigation The PGA TOUR, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF) today announced a landmark agreement to unify the game of golf, on […]
By Rob Willis HE took down Greg Norman in shooting a tournament record score at the Australian Masters, conquered another giant of Australian golf in beating Peter Senior in a playoff at the same event, played two World Cup’s and the inaugural Presidents Cup. A seven-time winner as a professional, he competed in Australasia, […]
THE PGA Tour Champions is back in full swing with all eyes on Bernhard Langer as he seeks to equal Hale Irwin’s all-time wins record of 45 titles. Late last year, Langer notched his 44th Tour Champions title – the TimberTech Championship – to become the oldest winner on the tour at 65 years and […]
By Peter Owen HE’S been around for so long that some golf fans may have forgotten Richard Green is a seriously good player, the winner of three events on the European Tour, a member of Australia’s World Cup team on three occasions, and once placed as high as 29 in official world golf rankings. He’s […]
THERE’S good news for Foxtel and Kayo customers thanks to the Foxtel Group’s new multi-year deal with the PGA Tour. The partnership extension between the Foxtel Group and the PGA Tour means more live golf than ever before for golf fans with innovative live feeds dedicated to marquee groups and featured holes from selected tournaments. […]
THERE’S no place like home and for young Sydneysider Cameron Davis, it feels like years since he’s been able to return to his home club at Roseville (and Monash) and catch up with all his old friends. Actually, it has! It’s been almost three years since Davis has been able to return home and now […]
IT didn’t take Harrison Endycott long to find his feet on the US PGA Tour. Playing in his first event after graduating from the Korn Ferry Tour, the 26-year-old impressed onlookers at the $8m Fortinet Championship at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California last month. He carded rounds of 72-70-65-72 – 279 (nine-under par) […]
AUSSIE Cameron Smith is dominating the headlines after starting the year on a high by winning the Sentry Tournament of Champions, but another Cameron (Cameron Davis) has set his sights on winning again on the PGA Tour. Davis, who made it into the Sentry Tournament of Champions field courtesy of winning the PGA Tour’s Rocket […]
NO,” was Cameron Smith’s blunt answer to a journalist who asked the winner of the recent Sentry Tournament of Champions if he would shave off his mullet. “Are you going to keep that thing forever,” was the journo’s follow up question. Smith’s reply: “I don’t think forever, but for the time being it’s hanging in.” […]
BEING a good caddie on the PGA Tour can be financially rewarding – just ask Steve Williams who caddied for Tiger Woods from 1999 to 2011. Many tour bag toters earn hundreds of thousands of dollars annually and their bosses don’t mind paying them handsomely because it means they are finishing high up on leaderboards. […]
By Michael Davis and David Newbery IT was not until the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne in 1998 that most Australians were able to witness firsthand what being part of a team means to golfers who usually play individual events. The event was in its infancy but you could have cut the air with a […]
CHAMPION golfer Robert Allenby, oftentimes a mysterious figure in golf circles, announced his return to golf after turning 50 in July … and falling out of a boat. Allenby has hardly played any golf in the past year, but he made his PGA Tour Champions debut at the Senior (British) Open at Sunningdale in England […]
There’s gold in them thar hills” warbled Frankie Marvin some nine decades ago. And today it’s a golden era for professional golfers good enough to make it on to the richest golf tour – the US PGA Tour. Unlike all other sports where athletes retire long before the age of 40, professional golfers on the […]
By Cameron Morfit, PGATOUR.COM Hadn’t seen parents for nearly 18 months due to pandemic, Australia lockdown Marc Leishman sinks a 17-foot birdie on No. 17 in Round 1 at WGC-FedEx St. Jude It was a nice round that got him right in the thick of it despite having traveled across 14 time zones. But Marc Leishman’s 5-under […]
New South Welshmen Brett Drewitt and Blake Windred have taken significant steps toward promotions to golf’s two largest tours in 2022 after top-five finishes on their respective tours over the weekend. As the golf world was enraptured by an enthralling final day at the US Open, Drewitt was putting himself in contention for a second Korn Ferry Tour title […]
The Aussie assault never materialised but it was another drama-filled chapter of golf history written at the US Women’s Open at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. Entering the final round well off the pace, the only two Australians to make the cut both posted rounds of 4-over 75 as Minjee Lee and Hannah Green […]
West Australian Jason Scrivener will edge closer to breaking into the world’s top 100 after continuing his outstanding European Tour season at the Made in Himmerland tournament in Denmark. Fresh from his best result in a Major championship at the US PGA Championship where his tie for 23rd was the best finish by an Australian […]
Queenslander Maverick Antcliff has taken a significant step towards securing his future on the European Tour after recording his best result at the Canary Islands Championship in Spain. Somewhat slow out of the blocks with an opening round of 1-under 70, Antcliff played the final 54 holes in 20-under par to finish outright second six […]
Local resident Cameron Smith finished in front but it was debutant Cameron Percy who had the Aussie highlight to remember in the final round of THE PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass in Florida. American Justin Thomas added to his flourishing resume with a one-stroke victory over Lee Westwood with Smith’s regular visits to TPC Sawgrass […]
Sarah Kemp has recorded her best LPGA Tour finish on American soil and Cameron Percy has logged his second top-10 of the PGA TOUR season in a weekend of strong performances by Aussies on tour around the world. Starting with Greg Chalmers’ hole-in-one in the opening round of the Puerto Rico Open – his second […]
His best ball-striking display in four years has Queenslander Cameron Smith excited about the build-up to The Masters after recording a top-five finish at the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club. Runner-up at Augusta National in November, Smith was making his first appearance since the Farmers Insurance Open three weeks ago and two weeks spent […]
Queenslander Jason Day has unveiled a new career goal after continuing his love affair with the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Starting the final round within three shots of the lead, Day made a bright start, narrowly missing out on an eagle at the par-5 second and then adding […]
Australia has long produced a steady pipeline of players who have found a home on the PGA TOUR. This week at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, one of the new breed, Min Woo Lee, makes his TOUR debut. Lee is the younger brother of LPGA star Minjee Lee. (That makes two very talented brother-sister combinations […]
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 […]
“Super season” features 50 tournaments, the most in a season since 1975 The PGA TOUR has announced the complete schedule for the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Season, featuring 50 official FedExCup tournaments – including 14 tournaments that were postponed or canceled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – culminating with the crowning of the FedExCup […]
(Story by Chris Cox, PGA Tour) While attention was sometimes elsewhere Saturday at the BMW Championship, Hideki Matsuyama and Dustin Johnson managed to grab the headlines at the end, as their steady play continued with matching 69s, good enough for a share of the third-round lead at 1-under overall. “(Matsuyama) is hitting it fine. Obviously […]
Story by Chris Cox/PGA Tour CHICAGO – The stakes are simple this week for Tiger Woods. Finish fourth or better at the BMW Championship and Woods will once more qualify for the season-ending Tour Championship and a shot at a record-breaking 83rd PGA Tour victory. Anything less than that, and the 44-year-old will be watching […]
The PGA TOUR’s 91-day hiatus since The PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP was canceled—the longest unscheduled break from competition since World War II—will finally end this Thursday (Friday morning, Australia time) when play resumes at the Charles Schwab Challenge. As one of the first sports to get underway since the Covid-19 pandemic, golf is prepared take center stage […]
Tiger Woods has gotten the better of Phil Mickelson once more. Playing on his home golf course, the 82-time PGA TOUR winner built an insurmountable advantage over the first six holes before fending off a late rally to beat his longtime rival Mickelson, 1-up, in Capital One’s The Match: Champions for Charity. A total of […]
With additional time needed to ensure PGA TOUR tournaments are staged in the most safe and responsible manner possible given the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the PGA TOUR is announcing further schedule modifications for the remainder of the 2019-20 season, as well as plans for the opening portion of the 2020-21 PGA TOUR Regular Season, the […]
