Golf Australia today announced record growth in club participation and total participation, with a 6.4 percent increase in club members and a 21 percent (210,000) year-on-year rise in round players, according to AusPlay data.
Judging the pace and line perfectly, Varner made what is surely the unlikeliest winning putt of his life to reach 13-under, claim the title and the $US1 million first prize.
Inevitability finally gave way to reality for Leona Maguire of Ireland on Saturday, when she won the LPGA Drive On Championship for the first victory of her LPGA career and likely not her last.
Todd Sinnott has been to hell and back as a professional but with a steady par at the 72nd hole at Rosebud Country Club he secured an emotional first victory on home soil to take away the pain.
How hard was Royal Greens Golf & Country Club playing on Saturday at the Saudi International? Of the 74 competitors who teed-up, only 24 broke the par of 70.
Sweet-swinging veteran Richard Green has a chance to wind back the clock while Todd Sinnott will join him in the final group with a huge opportunity at the TPS Victoria Rosebud tomorrow.
For the moment, the proposed Super Golf League remains just that, hearty in concept but short on substantive matter. What is clear is the PGA Tour’s stance towards the wannabe global tour, a position Commissioner Jay Monahan has not strayed from since the threat materialised two years ago: them, or us.
Boxing legend Canelo Álvarez once said that when he turns 37, he plans to retire and “play golf every day.” Judging by the shot he hit on Wednesday at Pebble Beach, it appears the 31-year-old from Mexico has already gotten a head start on those plans.
Which players aren’t at Pebble Beach and which are in Saudi Arabia instead has dominated the headlines this week. But there’s also a third big men’s pro golf event happening on the DP World Tour. And it provided a funny highlight that will be tough to, um, top.
Brooks Koepka traffics in trolling, and give the man this: He is democratic in his aim. On Thursday, Phil Mickelson was the latest target for the four-time Major winner.
The Vic Open will feature as part of The Open Qualifying Series for the first time following the cancellation of the New Zealand Open due to on-going travel restrictions.
Never before during his three decades as a professional golfer has the phrase, “What will Phil Mickelson do next?” been so apt. Or intriguing. Or mysterious.
Here’s what few if any of the players competing in this week’s Saudi International want to discuss: the so-called Super Golf League that appears to be creeping ever closer to some sort of inauguration.
The PGA Tour of Australasia is back after a week off and heads to Rosebud Country Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula for The Players Series Victoria Hosted by Geoff Ogilvy.
As ever when there is even a sniff of Saudi Arabia about the proceedings, what was unsaid by Greg Norman, CEO of LIV Golf Investments, and Cho Minn Thant, commissioner of the Asian Tour, was perhaps more illuminating than what was uttered out loud.
Australian Golf Digest
