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.
Sydneysider Declan O’Donovan feels like he’s playing with house money at this week’s Asia-Pacific Amateur given he plans on turning professional immediately after the event at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai – unless he wins.
A six-strong Australian team will head to Dubai in October for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, trying to win the country’s third individual title in four years.
Hamish Farquharson and Chase Oberle have been announced as this year’s Cameron Smith Scholarship winners, and will soon travel to the United States to spend time with the 2022 Open Champion.
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.