For a big game hunter, Brooks Koepka’s first taste of major championship golf was a catastrophe. It was 2012, and Koepka had qualified, via a sudden-death playoff, for the US Open at Olympic Club in San Francisco. With a tidy, bogey-free one-under score on his first nine that Thursday, Koepka, a 22-year-old amateur, was leading Read more…
Among the 22,000 spectators anticipated for Thursday’s first round at the U.S. Open, however, will be two teenagers from Australia you’ve never heard of: promising amateur golfers Joseph Buttress and Jeffrey Guan.
They look like men and play like junior tour professionals. Four Stanford players—Michael Thorbjornsen, Karl Vilips, Alex Yang and Barlcay Brown—stunned the golf world last week by earning spots in the U.S. Open field via 36-hole qualifying.
Star Aussie amateur and Stanford University player Karl Vilips has bolstered the Australian contingent at next week’s US Open after making it through gruelling 36-hole final qualifying, earning his major championship debut.
The controversial secondary cut used at last year’s Australian Open has been dropped by organisers who are gearing up for another groundbreaking edition of staging the men’s and women’s events concurrently – this time in Sydney.
An English theme was starting to emerge after two rounds at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth’s storied Colonial Country Club. There’s the leader, Harry Hall, who is from England, and his nearest chaser … Harris English. Sorry, we had to.
Last week, California club pro Michael Block had a flight booked for 10 a.m. on Saturday from western New York back to Orange County, where he lives. “So that gives you [an indication of] how much confidence I had in making the cut at the PGA Championship,” Block said.
Sergio Garcia knew the moment was coming. But learning European captain Luke Donald would not extend the LIV golfer and Ryder Cup stalwart a captain’s pick for the showpiece in Rome later this year was still devastating. It made Garcia’s decision easier earlier this month when he joined fellow Ryder Cup heroes Lee Westwood and Read more…
Rising Australian star Min Woo Lee and New Zealand’s Ryan Fox accepted Special Temporary Membership for the remainder of the 2022-23 PGA Tour Season. Fox, 36, and Lee, 24, can now receive unlimited sponsor exemptions for the rest of the season in a bid to earn PGA Tour cards for 2024.
The final leaderboard at the Korn Ferry Tour’s AdventHealth Championship in Kansas City showed a one-shot victory for Grayson Murray, the first in six years for the journeyman pro. But for the 29-year-old who has battled issues with anxiety and alcohol along with physical injuries, the personal margin of victory was much greater.
Club pro and feel-good story of the 2023 PGA Championship Michael Block makes hole-in-one on the par-3 15th at Oak Hill Country Club while playing with Rory McIlroy.
Min Woo Lee feels like a weight has been lifted off his shoulders after ending his string of missed cuts with a gutsy second round that put him well in PGA Championship weekend contention.
Watch these hilarious videos of comedian Hamish Blake dedicating several golf swings to a bystander’s wife, before driving the green on a par 4 and then holing a separate clutch putt for par.
Sydney star amateur Jeffrey Guan, as well as Western Australia’s 17-year-old phenom Joseph Buttress, have been announced as the Cameron Smith Scholarship winners for 2023.
A look at the betting odds, recent form and other key facts about the seven Australians, and big international names, that are in the field at this week’s PGA Championship tonight (AEST) at Oak Hill CC in Rochester, New York.
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