Newsmaker of the month: Cameron Smith When Cameron Smith last played on home soil, he was still considered a baby-faced prodigy of extraordinary promise. After a close-to three-year wait, Smith’s return solidified his new-found status as the pied piper of Australian golf. From the moment he touched down in Brisbane with the claret jug in Read more…
Whatever your golf resolution looks like in 2023, PGA professionals – Australia’s accredited experts in golf – are here to help get you there. We spoke with three, Skye Choueiri, Michael Jones and Nick Bielawski, and put together a guide to help you drop shots like never before in 2023
Newsmaker of the month: Harrison Crowe As is the modern way, the worldwide awareness of Aussie amateur Harrison Crowe came via a viral video posted by Erik Anders Lang of Random Golf Club Films that at last count boasted 271,000 views. It showed Crowe recreating a shot from the pavement in front of the Dunvegan Read more…
Newsmaker of the month: Commonwealth Games [Photo from Getty images: David Ramos] An Olympic sport for the past two iterations, golf will make its Commonwealth Games debut in Victoria in 2026. Golf was one of four sports added to the program that will be conducted throughout four regional Victorian centres from March 17-29, 2026, with Read more…
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.
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