Coming to the end of her remarkable rookie season on the LPGA Tour, Australian Grace Kim has confirmed she will return home for the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Sydney alongside former world No.1 and 2013 champion Jiyai Shin of Korea.
Australia’s most recent women’s major championship winners, Minjee Lee and Hannah Green, have today announced they will return home to contest the ISPS Handa Australian Open at The Australian Golf Club and The Lakes Golf Club from November 30.
The Webex Players Series Perth hosted by Minjee and Min Woo Lee will be part of both the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour of Australasia and is locked in for an initial period of three years in a huge boost for golf in Western Australia.
Australia’s best professional golfers and elite amateur stars are set to test their games in a way very few have ever done, with Golf NSW thrilled to announce the inaugural World Sand Greens Championships for men and women in 2024.
The Beach and Creek courses at the superb seaside facility near the town of Barwon Heads will host men and women competing for equal prizemoney on the same courses at the same time, with $420,000 on offer for each event.
South Australia will play host to its first professional mixed golf tournament in October with TPS South Australia coming to Willunga Golf Club in the famous McLaren Vale wine region.
The 2023 event will feature the continuation of the joint tournament format that will allow fans to see some of the best men and women golfers playing for different titles on the same course at the same time.
Australian Golf has welcomed the exciting news that golf will appear in a Commonwealth Games for the first time when the Games come to Victoria in 2026.
Golf Australia, the PGA of Australia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia have signed BMW Australia in a multi-year deal as the first joint major partner of Australian Golf in what the collaboration branded a ‘history-making moment’ for the sport Down Under.
The new-look Australian Open has received two exceptional outcomes with the commitment of ISPS Handa as naming rights partner for the next three years and Major champion Hannah Green committing to the historic mixed-gender event in Melbourne this year.
Australian Golf Digest
