A World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR)-sanctioned event, the match will feature 12 players representing each nation in a mixed Ryder Cup-style format over three days.
The best men and women amateur golfers from across the country will converge on the Gold Coast for three days to contest the most prestigious teams event in Australian amateur golf.
Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland has encouraged golf’s powerbrokers to consider the idea to award the Australian Open winner an exemption into all four majors, saying it would “elevate our event and our tour”.
It doesn’t have a confirmed date, a host city or a venue, but the Australian Open has morphed into a magic bullet that could end golf’s majors dilemma.
A five-shot winner, Nicholas showed his dominance across the three-day event, again claiming a championship that he won 20 years ago when it was first held.
Oakleigh Golf Course in Melbourne’s south-east will continue as a nine-hole public course serving its range of community groups following a vote by City of Monash Council Tuesday evening.
With two concurrently held ISPS Handa Australian Opens in the books, organisers now have twice the data – and twice as many opinions – to draw from when assessing what our national championship should look like from 2024 onwards. And it should tell them plenty.
Australian golf is celebrating a fourth consecutive year of participation growth, with 17.6 percent of adult Australians hitting a golf ball in 2022-2023.
The 47-year-old Californian pro is at the ISPS Handa Australian Open in Sydney this week as an invited guest of Golf Australia and the PGA Tour of Australasia after he made similar appearances across Europe and in the Middle East.
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