Newsmaker of the Month: Cameron Smith  [getty images: Charles Laberge/LIV Golf ] Off-season signings are rarely within golf’s realm, but Cam Smith’s confirmation that he would be joining LIV Golf sent shockwaves to rival anything witnessed within the AFL and NRL. Rumours that gathered momentum after Smith’s transcendent triumph at The Open at St Andrews became Read more…
[IMAGE: USGA] Victorian Harvey Young and rising Sydney superstar Jeffrey Guan have progressed to the matchplay section of the US Junior Amateur at Bandon Dunes in Oregon. Young began the second round of strokeplay in a tie for the lead at six-under and backed that up with a round of two-over 73 at Bandon Trails Read more…
Newsmaker of the Month: Minjee Lee Minjee Lee knew going in that a 54-hole lead counts for little in a Major championship. The 26-year-old West Australian equalled the record for the greatest comeback win in the history of women’s Majors at the 2021 Amundi Evian Championship, so her three-shot lead starting the final round of Read more…
Newsmaker of the month: Jed Morgan Jed Morgan’s historic 11-stroke victory at the Australian PGA Championship continues to reap rich rewards. The Joe Kirkwood Cup winner wrapped up the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit with two events left on the schedule, paving the way for exemptions into some of the game’s Read more…
To the untrained eye, when Maroochy River Golf Club opened midway through 2015, it was a largely barren landscape with firm fairways and greens that, like the great links courses of the world, exposed golfers to the elements and decision-making.
Newsmaker of the month: Hannah Green TPS Murray River became a humble tournament that garnered worldwide attention when Australian Major champion Hannah Green showed her class to win by four shots at Cobram Barooga Golf Club. The latest addition to the mixed Webex Players Series, Green made history as not only the first female winner Read more…
The Webex Players Series was a highlight of the 2020-2021 and returns this year richer and with new additions in the Murray River and Hunter Valley regions.
As a 10-handicapper, there are many reasons for me to be jealous of Min Woo Lee, but what he experienced at the European Tour’s recent AVIV Championship in Dubai took things to a whole new level.
West Australian Minjee Lee has been awarded the Greg Normal Medal for the second time in four years at a gala dinner held at Brisbane’s City Hall on Tuesday night.
The fabled tale is that Greg Norman once launched a soaring drive over the original incarnation of the Gateway Bridge that towers over Royal Queensland Golf Club.
The Greg Norman Medal has become a family affair for the first time in its history with siblings Minjee and Min Woo Lee both nominated for Australian golf’s top honour.
With the host course’s architect as his caddie, Elvis Smylie will play this week’s Australian PGA Championship with an advantage no other player can claim.
It has been 12 years since Geoff Ogilvy won the second of his ToC titles at Kapalua, but a strong Aussie presence this week opens the door for a drought-breaking win.
Australian Golf Digest
