The very best of New Zealand men’s golf are en route to the BMW Australian PGA Championship with two-time PGA Tour winner Ryan Fox to lead a resurgent Kiwi assault at Royal Queensland Golf Club.
Adam Scott will contest three tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia in the first half of the upcoming summer, ensuring his absence from our shores last year was a one-off hiatus.
This year’s championship, co-sanctioned by the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and DP World Tour, will again be hosted by Royal Queensland Golf Club from November 27-30.
Jason Day has flagged his interest in returning to Australia more often after bagging a top 10 at the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland to cap an “emotional” week in Brisbane.
Min Woo Lee revealed a “freak injury” to his knee hampered preparation for his title defence at the Australian PGA Championship but believes he’ll recover in time for a shot at the Open next week in Melbourne.
Home hero Cameron Smith took the Australian PGA Championship by the scruff of the neck with a blistering second round in Brisbane that set up a final-round showdown with former Smith scholarship winner Elvis Smylie and LIV Golf teammate Marc Leishman.
PGA Tour member Victor Perez heads a group of DP World Tour winners and rising stars who have been added to the fields for the Summer of Golf’s two major tournaments, the BMW Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane and ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne.
Australia’s newest PGA Tour member, Karl Vilips, is heading home to play in his first ISPS Handa Australian Open as a professional on the famed Melbourne Sandbelt. He will be joined at Kingston Heath and Victoria golf clubs from November 28 to December 1 by American Harry Higgs, who is returning to the PGA Tour for the 2025 season, and Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar, who has been inspired to play in our Open by countryman and defending champion Joaquin Niemann.
For the first time in Australian tournament golf history, it will be the lucky fans on site who will share the huge cash bonus if a player produces the perfect shot and makes a hole-in-one on the par-3 17th on Saturday, November 23.
Day will make his first appearance in a PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, joining defending champion Min Woo Lee as feature players for the event co-sanctioned by the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and DP World Tour.
Australian Golf Digest
