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LIV Golf Adelaide 2024: Cam Smith’s Ripper team wins playoff, ‘never heard crowds scream like that’
A wrap of the action on the final day of LIV Golf Adelaide at The Grange Golf Club in South Australia.
Limited-Edition Mizuno Azalea Irons: What you need to know
To help us all get into the spirit of Masters Week, Mizuno has released 1,000 sets of special-edition “Azalea” irons – and we’re going to take a punt and say they’re not going to last long.
Masters 2024: What a subtle iron switch might say about Rory McIlroy’s mindset
McIlroy swapped his 4-iron, going from TaylorMade’s P760 model to a prototype with a muscle cavity after a visit to TaylorMade’s test centre in Carlsbad, California.
Aussie wrap: Cam Smith loses LIV playoff while Aussies stumble at PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational
Australia’s two Cams led the way on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf in a mixed bag for the Down Under gang. Cam Davis led the way during a disappointing campaign for the Australians at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill while Cam Smith lost in a playoff at LIV Golf Hong Kong.
In first Africa Amateur Championship, mid-am standout wins playoff to reach The Open
Three South Africans, competing in their home country at Leopard Creek Country Club in Malelane, were knotted in a tie at the end of 72 holes, and it was Altin van der Merwe who made a birdie on the first playoff hole to capture the inaugural Africa Amateur Championship.
Australian Open 2023: LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann defeats Rikuya Hoshino in playoff
LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann became the first Chilean to win the Australian Open, defeating Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino in a sudden-death playoff.
LIV Golf announces the start of player free agency
The free-agency period is the second phase of the league’s offseason player-movement window.
Ryder Cup 2023: Does have a pairing that plays the same ball really matter in foursomes?
Isn’t it best to pair players who use the same ball? As it turns out, it has proven of little actual value in generating success in foursomes play.
US Open 2023: Golfer’s girlfriend skips cancer treatment to see him play in his first major
Whatever fortune or frustration befalls Corey Pereira in his US Open debut, whatever quality of play he can muster despite just 54 holes of competitive golf this year, his week will end with the sobering reality that living his dream was merely a respite from an ongoing nightmare.
PGA Championship 2023: How Oak Hill will display the work of golf’s hottest new architect
No PGA Championship or any other Major championship has been contested on the course the players will see this month.
Masters 2023: There are mixed reactions to changes to Augusta’s 13th, but most agree it will play very differently
Augusta National bought part of Augusta Country Club behind the 13th tee to complete a lengthening that debuts this week with a tee from the tips at 498 metres.
Patrick Reed just played Augusta’s new 13th hole with Dustin Johnson, wonders if it’s lost ‘a little bit of excitement’
Even Dustin Johnson was laying up. That’s the takeaway from 2018 Masters champion Patrick Reed after seeing Augusta National and its new, lengthening par-5 13th during a two-day reconnaissance trip to the famed course with his fellow green jacket winner and Harold Varner III last week.
Masters 2023: 13 players to think about when betting on the Augusta Major
These aren’t necessarily the 13 golfers—well, Scottie and a dozen others—with the best chance to slip on the green jacket. Rather, they’re the 13 we think have a great chance to do that AND whose odds are the most appealing.
Masters 2023: Scottie Scheffler played two days at Augusta National this week and has a scouting report on lengthened 13th hole
On Monday, in his first go from the new tee, the Masters champion grabbed his driver and promptly plunked his tee shot into the tributary of Rae’s Creek left of the fairway. On Tuesday, he reached the green by going driver, 4-iron.
Australian amateur is playing in Masters event this week, but the big one comes in April
A package that arrived on Harrison Crowe’s doorstep reminded the Australian amateur golf star that 2023 is going to be bigger than 2022, if that is even possible.
Presidents Cup 2022: Ironman Sungjae Im capable of putting the steel in the Internationals’ quest for victory
Im has no doubt the camaraderie and bond that have been built and strengthened over the past few years will serve the team’s quest to finally upstage the Americans again.
Open Championship 2022: Watch the bold play, and amazing par save, that helped Cam Smith claim the claret jug
After the round, Smith lamented the position he had put himself in on the penultimate hole.
Justin Thomas has a cracking story from the first ever hole he played at St Andrews, in 2013
The first hole Justin Thomas ever played at St Andrews, back in 2013, gave him an incredible story that could probably only be topped by winning the Open at the Home of Golf.
Fitzy’s Major moment, The Country Club shines and a little-known player perk: 18 US Open parting thoughts
Matt Fitzpatrick is a Major champion, winning the US Open with a legendary ball-striking performance – and doing it at The Country Club, where it all started. There is so, so much to discuss. Here are 18 parting thoughts from Brookline.
Cam Smith seems like just the right player to overcome a big Sunday obstacle
There are a number of legitimate reasons to think Cam Smith might just become only the second Australian to finish first in the Masters.
‘It was surreal’: Minjee Lee gobsmacked when she saw who Min Woo was playing in front of
LPGA Tour star and Major winner Minjee Lee was stunned when she arrived at Augusta National and saw brother Min Woo playing a Masters practice round in front of Tiger Woods.
Masters 2022: Optimism that Tiger will play grows after Monday practice round
After a few hellos to the boys and a measured walk to the short-game area, Tiger Woods entered his comfort zone: three bags of balls, two wedges to alternate between and a bentgrass canvas to work with.
