These are the days Max Homa used to dread. The combination of a saturated golf course, juicy rough, swirling winds and layer-up temperatures expose any player not in full command of his swing and his emotions.
A career-best 21 putts and some Cameron Smith-inspired short-game wizardry has seen David Micheluzzi and Daniel Gale earn top spot after day one of the Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship at Palmerston Golf Course.
Jed Morgan will play in his first Majors, this year’s US Open and Open Championship, after securing the Norman Von Nida Medal as the Order of Merit champion on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia.
As a showdown looms between the PGA Tour and DP World Tour against the Saudi-backed LIV Golf series, another entity is trying to remind the golf world it wants in the mix.
last-ditch effort to play the 150th Open at St Andrews has been rejected by the R&A, with a spokesman confirming to Australian Golf Digest the governing body had not changed its position on denying exemptions to former champions over the age of 60.
It’s never over until it’s over is a cliché that took on new meaning this past week at a mini-tour event in England when the apparent winner had his title taken away.
Hannah Green shot a dazzling, second-round 66 to pinch the lead from her WA compatriot Minjee Lee at the LPGA Tour’s Palos Verdes Championship in California today.
Phil Mickelson, out of the public eye for more than two months in the wake of inflammatory comments about the upstart Saudi-backed golf league, has filed for a release from the PGA Tour to play in the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational event
Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele were among the favourites coming into the week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, and for once in golf, form held.
Unfortunately, for Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown, there was a little too much “sorry partner” on the par-3 ninth hole Sunday at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
Retired Aussie tennis superstar Ash Barty will tee it up in a new global golf event to be televised across Australia in June, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
If Norman is willing, inexplicably, to put himself through reliving such a black chapter with the cameras rolling, then we owe it to him to stick it out until the end.
PGA Tour players must ask for a waiver to play in outside events, and with an application deadline of 45 days prior to a tournament, the last day a golfer could make a request is April 25.