The PGA of Australia has announced a record five-year extension with Challenger as title partner of the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia, securing the Tour’s biggest commercial partnership through the 2030-31 season.
The Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia has unveiled its 2026-27 schedule, highlighted by the 100th Queensland PGA Championship, a new home for the BMW Australian PGA Championship at The Lakes and two exciting new tournament venues.
Australian superstar Cam Smith will return home this summer with unfinished business on his mind, confirmed for the Capital.com Australian Open as he looks to add the Stonehaven Cup to his list of career achievements, as well as the BMW Australian PGA Championship the week prior.
The Sydney venue will host the championship in 2026 as part of an agreement between the PGA of Australia and the NSW Government through Destination NSW, bringing the event back to the state for the first time since 1998.
For all the eclectic ingredients this BMW Australian PGA Championship has offered up for three days, the most compelling of all is the complete absence of any certainty in the outcome.
Some of Australian golf’s biggest names in Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee backed Cameron Smith to bounce back from a horror run of form after the former major winner missed the cut at his home event, the Australian PGA at Royal Queensland.
A day after recording a hole-in-one, New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori carded a sensational 63 to upstage big names such as former champions Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott on day two at the Australian PGA, before darkness suspended play Friday at Royal Queensland.
One moment in round two at the Australian PGA was a snapshot that explains why Steve Williams was one of history’s greatest golf whisperers. He’s caddieing for Anthony Quayle, in contention at Royal Queensland this week, and next.
Popular Australian golfer Anthony Quayle has enlisted Tiger Woods’s former caddie Steve Williams to carry the bag for two weeks as he begins his opening tournaments as a DP World Tour member.
Major winner Cameron Smith believes LIV Golf’s move from 54 to 72 holes will help him rediscover his best form after returning home to Brisbane ahead of this month’s BMW Australian PGA Championship.
The biggest event of the PGA Legends Tour season hits Sydney this week, with some notable names in Australian golf contesting the Sharp EIT Solutions Australian PGA Seniors Championship at Richmond Golf Club.
One of the breakout stars of world golf in 2025, England’s Marco Penge, will tee it up in the BMW Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club on November 27-30.
A winner of 20 professional events worldwide, including two on the PGA Tour and seven on LIV Golf, Niemann will be looking to complete the Australian majors double after claiming the Australian Open in 2023.
Australian Golf Digest
