Articles by Martin Blake – golf.org.au

November 25th, 2021

Golf memberships soar: Golf Australia organisation

Golf Australia today announced participation figures not seen in 50 years of data collection, as the boom in golf gathers pace.

June 12th, 2021

C’MON, AUSSIE: Grace Kim’s Texas triumph

Australia’s top amateur, Grace Kim, has delivered a career highlight and her second victory in a professional tournament in Texas.

February 9th, 2020

VIC OPEN: Min Woo Lee signals his star power with a convincing win

Min Woo gets a two-year European Tour exemption as a result, and can pick and choose where and when he plays.

June 26th, 2019

Cashed-up Green ready to spoil herself – and you’ll never guess what’s at the top of her shopping list

Hannah Green is coming home with the truckload of money she picked up by winning her first-ever Major in Minnesota on Sunday.…and she has her eye on some French luxury accessories

June 24th, 2019

Hannah Green actually STOPPED TO READ A FAN’S POEM before closing out the PGA Championship

Hannah Green is a people person, which is why she took the poem that a seven-year-old girl wrote to her to heart at Hazeltine today.

June 24th, 2019

Hannah Green wins Women’s PGA Championship, becomes Australia’s newest Major champion

Hannah Green is a major champion, just the third woman in Australian history to have the honour.

June 23rd, 2019

Green on the brink of breaking Australia’s Major drought

Hannah Green potentially stands a day away from a monumental triumph, aiming to become the first Australian Major winner since Jason Day’s PGA championship win in 2015.

June 22nd, 2019

C’MON, AUSSIE: Hannah Green extends her lead at KPMG Women’s PGA Championship

Australia’s Hannah Green is chasing the victory of her lifetime at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Minnesota – and doing a very decent job of it.

February 26th, 2019

Minjee Lee hits world No.3 mark

Perth’s Lee, just 22 years of age, sits just behind superstars Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand and Sung Hyun Park of South Korea in the latest rankings.

November 18th, 2018

AUS OPEN: Can anyone catch Mexico’s Abraham Ancer?

Ancer, 27, is close to an unassailable position at The Lakes following his incredible third-round 65, a round that sits among the best in the long history of the Open.

November 16th, 2018

AUS OPEN: Max McCardle shares halfway lead with Ben An

For a long time at The Lakes on day two of the Emirates Australian Open, Matt Kuchar and David Micheluzzi had it to themselves. Then along came Byeong Hun An with a hole-in-one, the thunderclap at the 15th that changed everything, and Max McCardle almost trumped them all.

April 7th, 2018

Masters 2018: Leishman right behind red-hot Reed

It was barnstorming Patrick Reed’s day at Augusta National, but Australia’s Marc Leishman had his moments as well and the big man from Warrnambool is in contention again for his first Major championship.

February 15th, 2018

WOMEN’S AUS OPEN: Karrie Webb fresh as Kooyonga test looms

Far from retired, Karrie Webb still holds ambitions for a sixth national title.

February 14th, 2018

Women critical to Australian golf’s future vision

A Golf Australia initiative is aiming to boost participation by female golfers in the next seven years.

February 12th, 2018

Karrie Webb says career is in ‘transition’

After 23 years on tour, Karrie Webb is looking for a slightly slower pace to her career.

January 29th, 2018

FARMERS: Day-Noren to settle playoff Tuesday morning (AEDT)

Dark beats Day as Aussie has to wait one more sleep to break personal drought

November 26th, 2017

AUS OPEN: Day leaves Sydney with regrets

Jason Day set himself up for the fall. In the end, his finish to the Emirates Australian Open was emblematic of his winless 2017 – his first since 2012 – a little faltering, and slightly error-prone.

November 22nd, 2017

AUS OPEN: Karl Vilips, 16, eyes off British Open start

Can this 16-year-old amateur upstage the pros at The Australian Golf Club this week?

November 17th, 2017

Smith leads LPGA Tour’s season finale

The long-hitting Aussie set up her round with an eagle on the par-five sixth hole and then made three birdies on the back nine in one of the rounds of her career.

October 30th, 2017

Travis Smyth, Australia’s highest-ranked amateur, turns professional

One of Australia’s top young golf talents, Travis Smyth, has completed his outstanding amateur career and is set to turn professional.

October 3rd, 2017

Matt Jones soars back to US PGA Tour

One of Australia’s veteran players on the US PGA Tour has scraped his way back there via the secondary circuit.

September 13th, 2017

Minjee Lee heads the five Aussies at the Evian Championship

This week’s Evian Championship gives the entire field – including five Australians – one last shot at Major glory in 2017.