Billy Dowling and Jazy Roberts have been crowned the 2026 adidas Australian Amateur champions, both delivering final-round masterclasses to close out the championship in style at the Western Australian Golf Club.
Australian Harry Takis made a spectacular eagle at the final hole to finish fourth at the Asia-Pacific Amateur championship at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai.
Australian Harry Takis responded admirably from a nightmarish quadruple-bogey that featured two lost balls, including one up a palm tree, to scratch out a three-round total of 10-under-par that left a ray of hope of reeling in a runaway leader at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Australian Billy Dowling’s crafty iron play and hot putter contributed to a sizzling round that earned him a share of the lead after day one at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Dubai.
Graham Hourn leaves home before the sun rises to work 12 hours a day in a coal mine near Kingaroy, Queensland, about three hours inland of Noosa. He gets home in the dark, too. He does that for five days on, five days off.
Australia’s top-ranked amateur Harry Takis says the step up to US college golf is how he met Xander Schauffele’s putting coach and he’s feeling confident of rolling in enough putts to contend at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Dubai.
The 2024 Golf Australia Order of Merit winners have been confirmed with Queenslander’s Billy Dowling and Ella Scaysbrook from New South Wales taking out the men’s and women’s open-age titles.
Golf Australia has named an imposing seven-man team for the 2024 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship to be played in Japan in October, where major starts for 2025 go on the line.
China’s Yunhe ‘Sampson’ Zheng produced one of the greatest-ever rounds at Royal Melbourne Golf Club as a howling northerly wind wreaked havoc in the third round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.