There are murmurs on the grounds among players and caddies that because of the rough, dampness, wind gusts that could reach 20 miles per hour, and general ferociousness of the layout, any red number in a single round will be hard to come by.
Emily Mahar is nervous, she doesn’t mind admitting, as she prepares for the US Women’s Open this week. But the 21-year-old from Brisbane would not be human if the butterflies were not moving a little.
From the cool, damp and breezy weather, to the tilted, twisting fairways, to tiny greens, to the dense rough, Angela Stanford is of the opinion that this could be the most difficult test she’s seen in her two-plus decades on the tour.
What started as an exercise to improve the functionality of the layout by installing a sub-air system and ridding the fairways and greens of Poa annua became a revisionist mission.
With Olympic Club hosting the US Women’s Open for the first time this week, Kay Cockerill, has become a “course whisperer” to many with questions about the iconic venue ahead of the championship.
Lucy Li’s name will be recognisable again this week when fans watch coverage of the 76th US Women’s Open, which visits the Olympic Club’s Lake course for the first time after the course has hosted five US Opens.
It’s the 1979 Masters, and an inquisitive American golf writer is chewing the fat with Australia’s Jack Newton when he starts interrogating him about his new mate Seve Ballesteros. The young Spaniard had threatened the leaders all week at Augusta National, turning heads with a dazzling display of shot-making before eventually settling for a tied-12th Read more…
In his first interview since his car accident in February, the 15-time Major champion says his primary focus is regaining strength in his injured right leg.
Golfers across Victoria are bracing for a week-long ban from the fairways following the state government’s announcement of seven-day lockdown starting at midnight tonight