No amateur golfer has ever been at a crossroads quite like the one China’s Wenyi Ding, a rising star at Arizona State and former US Junior champion, found himself in this year.
A seven-strong Australian contingent will be vying for a start in the 2025 Masters and Open Championship when the 15th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship begins Thursday at the Taiheyo Club in Japan.
Quinnton Croker plans on turning professional immediately after the Asia-Pacific Amateur but welcomes the “good headache” winning would present, given he’d need to remain an amateur to take up the Masters and Open Championship berth.
There’s only one way the next month can get better for boom Australian amateur Phoenix Campbell and that’s if he can get a tee-time with superstar Cameron Smith at the upcoming Queensland PGA Championship.
Soaking up everything from Canada’s famous poutine to practice rounds with his idols, International debutant Min Woo Lee says being involved in the Presidents Cup is a reminder only hard work will unlock his enormous potential.
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Multiple PGA Tour winner Cameron Davis has opened up about his disappointment in missing selection for this week’s Presidents Cup, admitting it “stings” but has vowed to automatically qualify for future International teams.
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Adam Scott, after 24 years as a pro, does not have many firsts left to tick off. However, the thrill of a Presidents Cup victory continues to elude him.
Feeling there’s unfinished business at Augusta National is one of the reasons defending champion Jasper Stubbs will try to win another golden ticket to two men’s majors via the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Japan next month.
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It was a quiet week for the Australians across major tours despite exciting young Sydneysider Jeff Guan making his PGA Tour debut at the event in Napa, California.
While Jon Rahm took the league’s individual championship and its $US18 million bonus over Chile’s Joaquin Niemann in second, the other end of LIV’s roster, they were fighting for playing rights.
The pathways for players to earn their way into the LIV Golf League – or play their way out – will more closely resemble a promotion-relegation system after league officials clarified how the rules apply to LIV Golf team captains on the eve of its individual finale in Chicago.
As LIV Golf draws the curtain on its individual season, the league’s top two players will press on with what they do best: blocking out the noise and focusing on the tournament at hand.
Day will make his first appearance in a PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, joining defending champion Min Woo Lee as feature players for the event co-sanctioned by the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and DP World Tour.
The LIV Golf League is set to crown an individual season-long winner, with Jon Rahm and Joaquin Niemann contending for the honour. It’s also set to send a handful of players packing when its individual season draws to a close this weekend.
Adam Scott says he was thrilled to have turned around his PGA Tour season with a hot finish at the Tour Championship, and is now eyeing a maiden Presidents Cup victory on the International team at the Presidents Cup later this month.
Australian Golf Digest
