Masters champion and career grand slam winner Rory McIlroy’s commitment to play in the Australian Open in Melbourne has blown tournament officials away with “unprecedented” ticket sales coming in the first 24 hours.
Seven Australians are teeing up at the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, North Carolina. Get to know them before Thursday night’s AEST (Thursday morning US) opening tee shot.
Former PGA Championship winner Jason Day will be paired with legendary golfer Phil Mickelson for the second major in a row as tee-times at Quail Hollow revealed several star groupings and a relatively kind time difference for Australian followers.
Rory McIlroy has been locked in to make a competitive return Down Under to play in the Australian Open for two years in a mega coup for the country’s golf landscape.
Elvis Smylie says his game has “gone to another level” since becoming a regular presence on DP World Tour leaderboards and the left-hander is feeling a sense of belonging ahead of his US major debut at the PGA Championship.
Newly unveiled Presidents Cup International captain Geoff Ogilvy says it would be “cool” if he were able to select LIV golfers when his men take on the US side in 2026 at Chicago’s famed Medinah.
With dance music blaring, live visual effects erupting and Mexico City fans standing almost on top of the tee box at the par-3 18th at Club Golf Chapultepec, Joaquin Niemann’s path to earning a start at the US Open was unique.
Jason Day says his quest for a Masters green jacket will hinge on his ability to stay in survival mode at Augusta National knowing, after 14 years, all that counts is that a golfer is in with a chance on the back nine on Sunday.
Jason Day feels he came in under the radar relative to the big names but the former world No.1 and Masters runner up equalled his second-best score in 14 years of opening rounds at Augusta National to be well in contention.
Of all the nations, who’d have thought Australia would be the most hellbent on making golf style statements at the Masters? Cameron Smith practiced in a four-way stretch navy sport coat on Wednesday, and there was much handwringing over what Jason Day would wear Thursday.
Each of the five Australians in the Masters field would stop the presses and trigger a tidal wave of back page news stories, but our writer at Augusta dreams up how they could break the internet.
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