A lip-out from four feet on the 71st hole has seen Minjee Lee come up one shot short of a third Major championship at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship in Maryland.
Seven Australians and Kiwis Danny Lee and Ryan Fox are in the field for the 2022 US Open Championship at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, a course dripping in history and which shapes as a traditionally brutal examination by the United States Golf Association.
Australia’s only Masters champion, Adam Scott, has been recognised for significant service to golf at the elite level in this country, by being made a Member of the Order of Australia in Monday’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
World No.3 Cameron Smith has leant on the old adage that it is not how but how many to take a share of top spot in Round 1 of the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village.
The customary brilliant ball-striking was again on show as Lee hit 15 of 18 greens in regulation but additional preparation with the putter paid off as she picked up seven birdies in the first round of the championship.
Stolz didn’t play or even own a set of golf clubs for five years before his looming 50th birthday instigated a nagging thought in the back of his mind that couldn’t be ignored.
A career-best 21 putts and some Cameron Smith-inspired short-game wizardry has seen David Micheluzzi and Daniel Gale earn top spot after day one of the Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship at Palmerston Golf Course.
A challenge evolved into an almost impossible task as a gallant Hannah Green settled for second at the LPGA Tour’s DIO Implant LA Open in Los Angeles.
Australia’s only Masters champion has urged debutant Min Woo Lee to ignore the ghosts of Augusta National and create his own slice of history when the tournament begins on Thursday night AEST.
The old adage says that The Masters doesn’t start until the back nine on Sunday but the six-strong Australian contingent and potential comeback of Tiger Woods means there will be wall-to-wall coverage all week.
To be fair, given the quality of golf courses available at The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, there was no such thing as a poor choice.
Supreme self confidence is a coveted – if not essential – personality trait within elite athletes. The wildest dreams will remain within the realm of the subconscious without an unfailing self-belief that the ridiculous is indeed possible.
Debutant Cam Davis has been given a first-hand look at the biggest story of Masters week by playing practice holes with Tiger Woods as part of his preparation for Augusta National.
A hot putter wasn’t enough to earn Matt Jones the final place in the field for The Masters as he finished tied for second at the Valero Texas Open in San Antonio.
Cameron Percy has flirted with a maiden PGA TOUR title on his way to his best finish in more than a decade at the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic.
Once a Hunter product tipped to challenge the likes of Jan Stephenson and Jack Newton as one of the region’s greatest ever golfers, Flanagan returns for the TPS Hunter Valley at Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club facing his own golf mortality.
Australian Golf Digest
