Grace Kim will bring her rapidly rising star power back to Australian shores in March, with the major winner confirmed as an early marquee player for the 2026 Women’s Australian Open at Kooyonga Golf Course.
A blockbuster Australian Open at the iconic Royal Melbourne has left golf fans craving more national championships on the Sandbelt, after record crowds and global interest in the TV broadcast sent the national championship back to its glory days.
MELBOURNE, Australia — With great stages come great heartbreaks. Masters champion Rory McIlroy ended an 11-year absence from the Australian Open, which ended a 34-year absence from the country’s most famous golf course, Royal Melbourne, hosting the historic championship. Augusta National announced the Australian Open winner would be invited to the Masters. Attendance records were Read more…
Rory McIlroy says carving out a standalone week for the Australian Open is the only hurdle to attracting more of the world’s top golfers after a creditable but rusty performance at Royal Melbourne that showed signs of fatigue after a career-defining year.
Cameron Smith missed a short putt to take the Australian Open into a playoff at Royal Melbourne after Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen made a sublime par save to lift the Stonehaven Cup.
Australian Open contender Cameron Smith is dreaming of a triumphant comeback win from a highly-publicised “crappy year” having salvaged a place in the last group at Royal Melbourne, where a star-studded leaderboard teases a final round for the ages.
MELBOURNE, Australia — The gallery cheered on the 15th tee at Royal Melbourne’s Composite course when Rory McIlroy put a long iron back in the bag and reached for the driver on the short but tricky par 4. The Crown Australian Open crowds had just witnessed a rare whiff from the Masters champion in some Read more…
Masters champion Rory McIlroy praised the massive “potential” of the Australian Open for his inspiration to save a near-nightmare missed cut with a champion finish to his second round at Royal Melbourne.
After a career-changing birdie blitz in the final hour of the DP World Tour season, newly-minted PGA Tour player Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen feels he belongs atop the Australian Open leaderboard at Royal Melbourne.
Elvis Smylie says a breakthrough DP World Tour win and a solid year on the European circuit prepared him to upstage Rory McIlroy and other more experienced stars on day one at the Australian Open at a windy Royal Melbourne.
Enormous crowds greeted Rory McIlroy at Royal Melbourne on Thursday morning as Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith and others lived up to their billing with solid starts to the tournament.
MELBOURNE, Australia – The challenge is simple, if hefty. Rory McIlroy wants to focus on winning the game’s oldest and most prestigious trophies at golf’s most sacred venues. An Open Championship at St. Andrews, a U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and, this week, an Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. MORE: Adam Scott is experiecing a Read more…
Reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy has set his sights on an Australian Open victory at Royal Melbourne after applauding tournament organisers for ditching the mixed format and returning the 121-year-old event to Melbourne’s famed Sandbelt region.
MELBOURNE, Australia — After 25 years and almost 100 consecutive majors as a pro, former Masters champion Adam Scott doesn’t have many firsts left in his career. Except for one really bizarre scenario: The 45-year-old Aussie has never played an Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. Arguably Australia’s most famous golfer over the past two decades, Read more…
Rory McIlroy, Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott are the headline group for the 2025 Australian Open at Royal Melbourne as officials revealed the draw for the opening two rounds.
Adam Scott says there’s no denying an Australian Open victory at Royal Melbourne sits in its own league of career accomplishments as he eyes the first opportunity of his long career to hoist the Stonehaven Cup at the famed Sandbelt course.
Some of Australian golf’s biggest names in Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee backed Cameron Smith to bounce back from a horror run of form after the former major winner missed the cut at his home event, the Australian PGA at Royal Queensland.
A day after recording a hole-in-one, New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori carded a sensational 63 to upstage big names such as former champions Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott on day two at the Australian PGA, before darkness suspended play Friday at Royal Queensland.
One moment in round two at the Australian PGA was a snapshot that explains why Steve Williams was one of history’s greatest golf whisperers. He’s caddieing for Anthony Quayle, in contention at Royal Queensland this week, and next.
Cameron Smith was devastated and longed to restore his major-winning form of 2022 after enduring another missed cut, this time at the Australian PGA Championship in tough scenes at Royal Queensland.
Tour pro Daniel Gale predicted he would make a hole-in-one the night before bagging a spectacular ace that came with a $286,000 BMW during the opening round of the DP World Tour’s Australian PGA Championship.
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