What’s happening in women’s golf culture right now? From a new simulator league to the Instagram accounts worth following, here’s what’s on our radar this summer.
Indoor Voices, Please
WTGL, the women’s version of Tiger and Rory’s simulator league, has just opened at Florida’s SoFi Center. Five teams, 25 LPGA players, three-on-three matches, a shot clock and the “Hammer”, which lets a team raise the stakes on a hole mid-match. Everyone’s mic’d up, so we’ll finally hear what the world’s best say when a putt lips out. Our interest is personal: Minjee Lee is the league’s only Australian, lining up for Atlanta Drive GC beside Charley Hull and Yuka Saso.
History at the Home of Golf
At 8am on September 25, with a cannon blast and more than 1,000 people watching, Claire Dowling ‘drove in’ as the 271st captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and the first woman to hold the job. The five-time Irish Amateur champion played it by the book, then bought the ball back with a gold sovereign. Her verdict on the nerves? “It’s like there’s a washing machine going off inside you.”
Listen & Watch
The Podcast Pick: The Golf Club
Matt Cleary, author of A Short History of Golf, teams up with Nick Davis, the Swans premiership player who kicked the last four goals of the 2005 semi-final against Geelong, for “The Golf Club” on SEN. Davis has swapped the Sherrin for a microphone. A footy great talking golf on a mainstream sports network brings the game to a new audience and we’d love to hear the women’s game get plenty of airtime, too.
Episode of the Season
Tee It Up: “Hannah Reeves Has Arrived”. Reeves turned pro in October 2025, won her first three paid starts, led the Women’s NSW Open into Sunday, then won on the LET Access Series in England in a four-hole playoff. This 28-minute chat catches her mid-breakout, talking about the depth of Aussie women’s golf, who inspires her and what comes next.
Video Worth Watching
Bianca Ling’s “My Golf Story” series (@biancaling). Before she was a Melbourne presenter, Ling was an elite amateur: Victorian Champion of Champions in 2013 and ranked 13th in the country a year later. Then she stepped away. Part one [left] covers the elite years, a rare first-person look at the junior pathway from someone who left it and found her way back on her terms.
Style File
Fore All × Barbie
Fore All, the women-founded US label that has become something of a gallery uniform at LPGA events, went all in on a Barbie collaboration in 2026 [left]. It’s pink, it’s knowing and it’s the clearest sign yet that women’s golf apparel has stopped apologising for itself.
Clubs That Get It
Royal Sydney Signs On
With Karrie Webb in the room, Royal Sydney signed the R&A’s Women in Golf Charter in 2026, committing to women and girls on the course and in the workforce. It’s backed by more than signatures: women and girls already make up over 40 percent of the club’s members and staff.
Handicap, No Clubhouse required
Not ready for a full membership? Golf Australia Club gives you an official GA Handicap, liability cover and the GA app for $15 a month or $124 a year, an easy first step for the 1.8 million Australians who play regularly without belonging to a club.
People to Know
Creator Corner: Gulfers
Caitlin Cotterill (@caitlin.cotterill) and Jess Green (@jessgreen02) are Kiwi-born WPGA pros who’ve made the Gold Coast home and they’ve figured out how to make the internet help pay for the dream. Between them they’ve posted reels with millions of views [above] and they run golf days, with a charity arm and a Burleigh Brewing ambassadorship on the side.
Who We’re Loving When We’re Scrolling
Tilly Torrevillas (@tilly_torrevillas): Sydney’s Tilly files golf under a bigger life plan. Her highlights read GYM, FUEL, GOLF, GLORY and somehow it all fits. Start with her “Tour Pro vs Amateur” one-on-one.
Emily (@golfingwithemily): a Perth golfer who was playing off an 11 handicap at the time of writing, backed by Wilson. Proof the most useful accounts often belong to people who can actually play.
Girls Who Golf (@girlswhogolf.co): a Perth beginner collective with the bio “confidence over competition” and the most stealable format on golf Instagram: what I wore, where I played, how I scored.
Iconic Quote
“If people don’t like it, they can lump it.” That’s Charley Hull. Ahead of July’s AIG Women’s Open, she handed her caddie, Adam Woodward, a fake scratchcard from a Blackpool joke shop. He “won” £100,000, celebrated around the players’ lounge, threatened to take the day off and then learnt the truth, on camera [below]. Some called it cruel on air and plenty online argued that a star player joking about a life-changing sum with the person carrying her bag punched down. Hull says people don’t understand her relationship with “Adsy”: the pair trade pranks constantly and he’d texted her that it was one of the funniest weeks ever.
Stats That Stopped Us
More than 15 million Views on Bianca Ling’s pinned night-range swing reel, from an account with just 65 posts at the time of writing. The algorithm loves a pure strike.
250 percent The one-year rise in women’s social rounds at Townsville Golf Club.
