JUST weeks after confirming her participation in the upcoming ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open, Hannah Green has claimed her third LPGA Tour title in 2024 with a victory at the BMW Ladies Championship in Korea. In a tournament played at the Seowon Valley Country Club, Green birdied the difficult 17th hole in posting a 19-under […]
ONE of the most successful, and important, initiatives in Australian golf in recent times has been the introduction of The R&A Women in Golf Charter. It’s part of Australian golf’s broader approach to have more Australians, particularly women and girls, playing more golf in all its forms, and for those golfers to have welcoming and […]
SHE’S one of the icons of the women’s professional game in Australia. Yet these days Rachel Hetherington rarely picks up a golf club. And as the eight-time LPGA winner in the US is happy to admit … she’s probably living her life ‘in reverse’ these days. That’s because Hetherington, married to former Australian Test cricketer […]
APRIL brings the 2023 WPGA Tour season to a close as well as our inaugural Women and Girls Month delivered in collaboration with the PGA of Australia and Golf Australia. The highlight of the season had to be The Athena. Now in its third year, The Athena is like no other professional women’s golf tournament […]
By Michael Davis SYDNEY’S Stephanie Kyriacou admits she was overwhelmed on her first year on the LPGA Tour. “There’s lots of outside factors that affect your golf bit by bit,” she said before hitting off in the Webex Championship at Rosebud Country Club recently. “Then there’s all the big names and different courses and places […]
IT all started 50 years ago when South Australian businessman and keen golfer Alan Gillott had a light-bulb moment while reading a golf magazine article featuring American female teaching professional Jeanette Rector. Right then, Alan thought to himself: “Why can’t we have women professional golfers in Australia?” This inspired Alan to do some research into […]
WEST Australian star Minjee Lee cruised to a four-shot victory at last month’s US Women’s Open, taming the stunning Pine Needles course in North Carolina and taking home an astonishing US$1.8m (AUD$2.5m) prize cheque. Apart from claiming the largest ever prizemoney cheque ever handed out in the history of women’s golf, Minjee’s win was also […]
THE horrendous summer weather experienced on the east coast of Australia in early 2022 has of course been devastating for so many people. There are so many families who have lost their houses and possessions. The scenes we witnessed from Lismore and Woodburn at the height of the two separate floods were just heartbreaking for […]
AUSTRALIAN golf fans will have two new and one well-known face to cheer for on the world’s biggest women’s professional tour, the 2022 LPGA Tour. St Michael’s golfer Stephanie Kyriacou secured her 2022 LPGA Tour card alongside fellow Aussies Karis Davidson and tried-and-tested professional Sarah Jane Smith. Kyriacou played 21 tournaments in 13 different countries […]
By Michael Davis A COMPACT two-day event at the superbly-revamped Sandringham public course is returning to the WPGA Tour of Australasia next month. Known as The Athena – so called after the Greek goddess of war strategy and wisdom – the two-day event will feature 10 emerging Australian and New Zealand golfers like Stephanie Kyriacou, […]
RECENTLY I was super excited to be involved in a media day held at Royal Queensland Golf Club to announce the launch of the Australian WPGA Championship. It will be played in January and will be played concurrently with the Australian PGA Championship – one of Australian golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournaments. This announcement […]
IT is a tag that has only been bestowed upon a handful of golfers throughout the history of our game – “the best golfer to have never won a major championship”. It is one that both Lee Westwood and Colin Montgomerie have learned to live with and one Phil Mickelson, thankfully, shed in 2004 after […]
Sydney star Steph Kyriacou, who took the world by storm in 2020 winning the Australian Ladies Classic while still a 19-year-old amateur, has taken the next step in her graduation to top echelon of the women’s game winning as a professional at the “Big Green Egg Open” on the Ladies European Tour. Steph’s progression in […]
While it was disappointing for us not to be able to hold our regular WPGA Tour tournaments this year due to the pandemic, thankfully there were a few events for us to celebrate in 2021.Firstly there was “The Athena” which I am sure by now you would have seen or read about, and secondly the […]
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 […]
Australia’s Minjee Lee captured the OMEGA Dubai Moonlight Classic with a clutch birdie putt from 20ft at the first extra hole to beat France’s Celine Boutier in a thrilling shoot-out under the Middle Eastern moonlight. Following in the footsteps of previous champions including Annika Sorenstam, Lexi Thompson and Shanshan Feng, Lee came into the week […]
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 […]
Australia’s number 1 female golfer Minjee Lee has just finished 3rd and 4th in back-to-back tournaments on the LPGA Tour, following the tour’s enforced break for Covid-19. For her efforts, Minjee picked up a total of $US153,083 in these two events, taking her career earnings to over $US6.3 million, not bad for a 24-year-old in […]
Add to the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open trophy the name of Inbee Park, South Korea’s quiet, humble champion of the game. She sits there comfortably on the Patricia Bridges Bowl with the likes of Annika Sorenstam, Lydia Ko, Dame Laura Davies, Karrie Webb and Jan Stephenson, all legends of the game. It is a […]
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 […]
Perth’s Hannah Green, defending champion Nelly Korda of the United States and Australia’s top-ranked female golfer, Minjee Lee, have committed to play the 2020 ISPS HANDA Women’s Australian Open at Royal Adelaide, 13-16 February. Green is making a triumphant return to Australia from a wonderful 2019 campaign overseas, aiming to fulfil her dream of winning […]
Hannah Green is a major champion, just the third woman in Australian history to have the honour. The 22-year-old from Mt Lawley Golf Club in Perth rolled in a par putt from just inside two metres at Hazeltine National Golf Club just outside Minneapolis today to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship by a shot […]
Seven Australians will tee it up at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota later this evening at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, the third of the LPGA Tour season’s five major championships of the 2019 LPGA Tour season. A field of 144 players will face a stern test this week, competing over a demanding […]
The 2019 ALPG Tour kicked off in January at the Ballarat Golf Club at the first ever ALPG Tour Qualifying Tournament. We had anticipated around 30-40 players competing for a chance to get a start in all of our 2019 events, however we were overwhelmed by the interest in the event and ended up with […]
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 […]
Marianne Skarpnord ended a six year drought to claim her fourth title on the Ladies European Tour after a closely fought battle for the Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville. Skarpnord fired a final round of 69 to earn a two stroke victory on eight-under-par ahead of Australian Hannah Green and Nuria Iturrios […]
Our 2019 ALPG Tour and 2019 ALPG ClubCar Series will kick off on 4th January 2019 with an exciting new pro-am on our schedule, The Blitzgolf Curlewis, where 20 ALPG professionals will join 40 of their counterparts from the PGA in what should be a fun-filled, action-packed day. Blitzgolf is a relatively new format of […]
Australian Ladies Professional Golf Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. BLUE BAY CLASSIC SANYA, CHINA NOV 7-10 Prizemoney: US$2,100,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Hannah Green T15 US$28,888 71 Sarah Jane Smith T15 US$28,888 64 Su Oh T22 US$21,272 47 Japan LPGA […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. ALPG Swinging Skirts LPGA Taiwan Championship presented by CTBC Prizemoney: US$2.2m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee 2 US$203,675 2 Su Oh T60 US$6,022 45 Katherine Kirk T60 US$6,022 61 Sarah Jane Smith T26 US$19,347 65 Hannah Green […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our Australian Ladies Professional Golf member performances. LPGA Buick LPGA Shanghai Prizemoney: US$2.1m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee T9 US$30,642 2 Su Oh T9 US$30,642 43 Katherine Kirk 65 US$16,946 60 Sarah Jane Smith 4 US$6,009 67 Symetra Tour […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s Australian Ladies Professional Golf action and our ALPG member performances. LPGA Tour LPGA KEB HANA BANK CHAMPIONSHIP, Incheon, Korea Prizemoney: US$2m Player Result Earnings Race to CME Minjee Lee T3 US$96,411 2 Su Oh T27 US$16,387 41 Katherine Kirk 65 US$4,608 60 Sarah Jane Smith 4 […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s golf action across the globe and our Australian Ladies Professional Golf member performances. UL International Crown, Jack Nicklaus Golf Club, Incheon, Korea Prizemoney: US$1.6m Team Result Earnings Republic of Korea 1 US$400,000 England T2 US$225,000 USA T2 US$225,000 Thailand 4 US$190,000 Sweden 5 US$170,000 Australia 6 […]
The Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG) Association, in partnership with title sponsor ActewAGL and Royal Canberra Golf Club have announced that the ActewAGL Canberra Classic will be once again returning to The Royal Canberra Golf Club from the 1st – 3rd March 2019. The tournament will be an official event on the ALPG Tour schedule […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. Symetra Tour GUARDIAN CHAMPIONSHIP PRATTVILLE, ALABAMA, SEP 21st-23rd Purse: $150,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Standing Stephanie Na MC 64 Liv Cheng MC 77 Celina Yuan MC 136 Ladies European Tour Estrella Damm Mediterranean Ladies Open, Club de […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. LPGA The Evian Championship, Evian-les-Bains, France, 13th-16th September Purse: US$3,850,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Standing Notes Rebecca Artis DNP 121 Hannah Green MC 74 Katherine Kirk T10th US$69,096 59 Minjee Lee T16th US$47,995 2 Su […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and ALPG member performances. LPGA Tour Cambia Portland Classic, Portland, OREGON Purse: $1,300,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Standing Notes Rebecca Artis T42nd US$5,562 120 Hannah Green MC 73 Katherine Kirk T30th US$9,441 63 Minjee Lee 4th US$66,736 2 Su Oh T9th US$24,780 […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. CP WOMEN’S OPEN REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA. AUGUST 23-26 Purse: US$2,250,000 Next Tournament: Cambia Portland Classic, Portland, OR Purse: $1,300,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Standing Notes Rebecca Artis MC 125 Hannah Green 69th US$4,801 68 Katherine Kirk T28th US$16,949 […]
Here are the results for our Australian women for the week ending August 20 LPGA Indy Women in Tech Championship Driven by Group 1001 Indianapolis, INDIANA Purse: US $2,000,000 ($300k to winner) Next Tournament: August 23-26 CP Women’s Open, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Purse: US $2,250,000 Player Result Earnings Race to CME Standing Notes […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. LPGA Tour No event this past week Next Tournament: ABERDEEN STANDARD INVESTMENTS LADIES SCOTTISH OPEN EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND JULY 26-29 Purse: US$1,500,000 Symetra Tour DANIELLE DOWNEY CREDIT UNION CLASSIC ROCHESTER, NEW YORK JUL 19-22 Prizemoney: US$225,000 Next Tournament: Fuccillo […]
Here is the recap from this past week’s action and our ALPG member performances. MARATHON CLASSIC PRESENTED BY OWENS CORNING AND O-I SYLVANIA, OH JUL 12-15 Purse: $1,600,000 ($240,000 to winner) Player Result Earnings Race to CME Notes Rebecca Artis MC Sarah Kemp MC Next Tournament: Aberdeen Standard Investments Ladies Scottish Open East […]
