West Australian Haydn Barron will debut as a DP World Tour player at next week’s Fortinet Australian PGA Championship after securing a 2024 Tour card at final stage of Qualifying School in Spain.
Three of Australia’s most highly credentialled amateurs have joined the professional ranks ahead of this week’s Queensland PGA Championship at Nudgee Golf Club in Brisbane.
The championship will be contested at Nudgee Golf Club’s Kurrai course for the third straight year where Senden will put his class and experience up against the bright young crop of Aussie golfers coming through.
Earning 61 Order of Merit points on Sunday saw Barker leapfrog Daniel Gale and Simon Hawkes into first spot ahead of this week’s latest addition to the Webex Players Series, the Webex Players Series South Australia.
A six-shot leader through 54-holes, Eccles’ 23-under total and five-stroke victory masks the turmoil of a restless night’s sleep, two chats with coach Grant Field between rounds and a host of challengers who bridged the gap to just three before the final group made the turn.
Four Aussies will make a 15,396-kilometre mad dash from a rain-soaked St Andrews to the Kalgoorlie desert to take their place in the CKB WA PGA Championship starting tomorrow.
Tasmanian Simon Hawkes is a two-time winner on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia thanks to a brilliant up-and-down on the 72nd hole of the WA Open.
The third event of the 2023-2024 PGA Tour of Australasia season, the WA Open offers players another opportunity to enhance their standing on the Order of Merit.
Just a month after turning 50, Hend’s final round of six-under 66 and 10-under total ensured he started the next phase of his career in perfect fashion.
She won’t officially join them until 2024, but Gabriela Ruffels was welcomed into Australia’s LPGA family ahead of this week’s CPKC Women’s Open in Canada.
Some of Australian golf’s brightest prospects who will make their professional debuts at this week’s Tailor-Made Building Services NT PGA Championship.
A mentally stronger Steph Kyriacou will call on the comforts of home to push for major-championship glory at the AIG Women’s Open, which begins today at Walton Heath Golf Club in England.
The 43-year-old New Zealander was one of 13 Australasian players to earn a place in golf’s most feted major championship, yet in a heartbreaking Instagram post on May 15, he announced publicly for the first time that he had withdrawn after being diagnosed with leukaemia.
Mick Smith [pictured] and Paul Archbold don’t typically appear in senior men’s major championships, but the pair will this week tee it up against a host of major champions and Hall of Famers at the US Senior Open in Wisconsin.
West Australian Min Woo Lee has maintained his position inside the top 10 on the leaderboard as driving rain made the US PGA Championship challenge at Oak Hill even tougher in Round 3.
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