The Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship is headed to a top 40 course in the world, after organisers announced a highly sought-after New Zealand venue will host the 2026 edition.
Sadbhav “Sam” Acharya grew up playing golf at a course perched 4,600 feet above sea level in Kathmandu, Nepal, a city famous for being the gateway to the Himalayas. But his game reached new heights when a lesson from Nick Faldo a year ago contributed to a victory that helped the 20-year-old become the first amateur from his country to play Division I college golf in the US.
Graham Hourn leaves home before the sun rises to work 12 hours a day in a coal mine near Kingaroy, Queensland, about three hours inland of Noosa. He gets home in the dark, too. He does that for five days on, five days off.
Australia’s top-ranked amateur Harry Takis says the step up to US college golf is how he met Xander Schauffele’s putting coach and he’s feeling confident of rolling in enough putts to contend at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Dubai.
Sydneysider Declan O’Donovan feels like he’s playing with house money at this week’s Asia-Pacific Amateur given he plans on turning professional immediately after the event at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai – unless he wins.
Seven Australians have begun their preparations for a shot at Masters and Open Championship starts, undertaking practice rounds for the Asia-Pacific Amateur being held this week at Dubai’s famed Emirates Golf Club.
DP World India champion Tommy Fleetwood had only recently broken through for a long-awaited maiden PGA Tour win at the season-ending Tour Championship when his son, Frankie, set him a new challenge.
The great Australian golfer Peter Lonard has enjoyed a full-circle win at the site of his first ever pro-am start, capturing the Mollymook NSW Senior Masters at Mollymook Golf Club’s Hilltop Course.
Xander Schauffele travelled 12,000 kilometres from his home in Florida to Yokohama in Japan, but his emotional comeback victory at the Baycurrent Classic had the feel of a homecoming.
Matt McCarty may need a pat on the back and one of those ice-cold, extra-sudsy beers Japan is famous for after coughing up a potential 59 – or 58 – in the most devastating way during Sunday’s final round at the Baycurrent Classic outside Tokyo.
Adam Scott made a hot start at the PGA Tour’s Baycurrent Classic in Japan, carding a three-under-par 68 to sit one shot off the pace after the opening round at Yokohama Country Club.
Andrew “Beef” Johnston has fallen in love with the city of Perth and the popular English golf star is using it as a base to launch his hard-earned return to the DP World Tour, which is set to take off at the Australian PGA Championship and Open.
Winless in two years, Cameron Smith has returned to the site of his dramatic maiden major triumph in the hopes of recapturing the form that saw him hoist the Claret Jug at the 150th Open St Andrews’ Old Course in 2022.
The lead changed so many times throughout the final day at Golf de Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche, a parkland course on the outskirts of Paris, that it looked more like the stages of the Tour de France than a 119-year-old golf tournament.
Lucas Herbert says he gets goosebumps at the thought of trying to win an Australian Open at Royal Melbourne and snare its newly-created invitation to the Masters at Augusta National.
Aussies of the month: Aces Galore! Yes, you read that correctly as plural – Aussies of the Month. We saw several professional tour winners across the world, but no clear standout. So, the obvious development in the past month was the string of Australian weekend golfers (and one truly elite junior golfer) bagging aces: Talk Read more…
Forged by fire: The opening of the rebuilt clubhouse at Eastern Golf Club in Victoria’s Yarra Valley closes an unwanted chapter in the club’s history as grand plans lie ahead.
From Rory McIlroy to Jon Rahm, 11 members of the European Ryder Cup team were at the DP World Tour’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. But they were all upstaged by Alex Noren, who will be one of their five vice-captains at Bethpage next week.
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