Ryder Cup hero Shane Lowry has acknowledged his Bethpage Black captain Luke Donald could be tempted by a shot at history, with officials set to hold talks with the Englishman at this week’s Dubai Desert Classic.
The 2018 Masters champion isn’t eligible for an immediate return to the PGA Tour via the newly created Returning Member Program, but as a golfer with a footprint on three major circuits already, he wouldn’t hesitate to add a fourth.
Shane Lowry spoke powerfully after a 72nd hole meltdown cost him at least a spot in a playoff at the DP World Tour’s Dubai Invitational, where he and Rory McIlroy were among the big names upstaged by Spain’s Nacho Elvira.
Greg Norman has told Fox News in the US he is thrilled that Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm have the choice to return to the PGA Tour, even if the star trio said they won’t access a new pathway back for LIV golfers.
Connor McKinney signed off with an exciting four-hole stretch on an impressive wire-to-wire victory at the Webex Players Series Perth, hosted by Minjee and Min Woo Lee.
In the absence of fans getting to watch the PGA Tour’s Sentry event at Kapalua on the Hawaiian island of Maui, let’s rewind to 2022 when Australia’s own Cameron Smith, then a PGA Tour player, won with a record-setting 34-under-par total.
Australian male golfers enjoyed plenty of victories around the globe in 2025 but the nation closed the year without a golfer in the top 40 on the Official World Golf Rankings.
Tiger Woods turned 50 on December 30 in the US and, in celebration, the PGA Tour, where Woods shares the record for most career wins with 82, released a video of the superstar’s 50 greatest shots.
Superstar Bryson DeChambeau sounded non-committal, at least not yet, when discussing renewing his contract with LIV Golf in an interview with Flushing It Golf.
Ripper GC’s Matt Jones was listed under “players relegated or without a contract for the following season” when LIV Golf released the field and other details for its qualifying school in Florida next month.
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Tasmanian tour pro Mat Goggin was 13 years old in the late 1980s, enjoying his first year of playing golf, when his grandfather insisted he head to 7 Mile Beach in Hobart, Tasmania, to hit balls off the sand.
After taking some time to lick his wounds, Cameron Smith said on Wednesday he can see a healthy silver lining to a heartbreaking close call at the recent Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
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.
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