Jasper Stubbs has won the Asia Pacific Amateur at Royal Melbourne, punching his ticket to next year’s 2024 Masters and Open Championship. Stubbs, 21, who lives 2km from Royal Melbourne, was five-over for the tournament after six holes of the final round but rattled off four birdies in his last 12 holes to shoot 69. Read more…
A day after decorated British amateur golfer Sir Michael Bonallack was laid to rest, the amateur course record he held for 55 years at Royal Melbourne’s Composite course was beaten. If the five-time winner of Britain’s Amateur Championship could have seen the howling winds on Day 3, he would have impressed at Sampson Zheng’s six-under Read more…
RA& boss Martin Slumbers, who is in Melbourne for the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, said there were two hurdles to jump before Portmarnock could host an Open.
Based on the responses to questions about the status of LIV golfers in major championships put to Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley and R&A chief executive Martin Slumbers on Thursday in Australia, it does not appear LIV members will be given a special category into the Masters and Open Championship in 2024.
MELBOURNE, Australia — Lukas Michel, the 2019 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion, had wrestled with the decision for years. Turn professional and begin life as a touring golfer, or use his engineering degree and love of design to pursue a career in golf course architecture? Chase birdies or bulldozers? Earlier this year, bulldozers won. Australia’s amateur golf Read more…
Jack Buchanan says watching close mate Harrison Crowe win last year’s Asia Pacific Amateur Championship has given him the self belief to capture the title at Royal Melbourne this week. The South Australian is one of 10 Australians in the 118-player field at Royal Melbourne, where the winner will receive an invitation to the 2024 Read more…
Lukas Michel, the 2019 US Mid Amateur champion, had wrestled with a decision for years. Turn professional and begin life as a touring golfer, or use his engineering degree and love of design to pursue a career in golf course architecture? Chase birdies, or bulldozers?
Cam Davis is coming in hot after a stellar season on the PGA Tour, and he’s determined to add the Joe Kirkwood Cup to a trophy cabinet already boasting his national open.
With each passing day, the deadline for negotiations between the three parties initiated by their framework agreement grows nearer, while the outcome of those talks becomes less certain.
Cameron Smith’s all-Australian team, Ripper GC, have been sent home from the LIV Golf teams championship finale after losing a best-of-three matchup against Martin Kaymer’s side, Cleeks GC.
Ripper GC captain Cameron Smith will take on two-time major winner and Cleeks GC skipper Martin Kaymer in a match play showdown during the opening round of LIV Golf’s season-ending teams championship in Miami.
Australian Greg Norman has spoken publicly for the first time since June 6, when the PGA Tour, DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund made a shock announcement that they were working toward a framework agreement to work together.
It’s taken a season-and-a-half, but Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson say their LIV Golf franchises have attracted interest from a variety of potential buyers.
Australia’s Cameron Smith has coughed up his LIV Golf season-long points lead, opening the door for Brooks Koepka to win in Jeddah and fellow American Talor Gooch to claim the $A32 million season title.
When play was suspended for darkness in round one of the Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, sponsor’s invitation Lexi Thompson was ahead of 36 players on the leaderboard. She was also trending on Twitter.
Cameron Davis’ quest to finish his PGA Tour season in style before returning to Australia is off to a solid start having climbed into the mix at the Shriner’s Children’s Open in Las Vegas.
Bryson DeChambeau has urged the organisers of golf’s four major championships to make moneylist moves and create a category for his peers on LIV Golf, in the aftermath of the board of the Official World Golf Rankings denying points to the league.
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