After taking some time to lick his wounds, Cameron Smith said on Wednesday he can see a healthy silver lining to a heartbreaking close call at the recent Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
A 17-year title drought on home soil is over for Marc Leishman after he made a clutch birdie on the 72nd hole to claim the Vic PGA by a shot over fellow Victorian Josh Younger on Sunday.
Leishman will team up with his 13-year-old son Harvey in the tournament’s pro-am format – the final event on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia schedule before a short Christmas-New Year break.
Rory McIlroy says carving out a standalone week for the Australian Open is the only hurdle to attracting more of the world’s top golfers after a creditable but rusty performance at Royal Melbourne that showed signs of fatigue after a career-defining year.
Australian Open contender Cameron Smith is dreaming of a triumphant comeback win from a highly-publicised “crappy year” having salvaged a place in the last group at Royal Melbourne, where a star-studded leaderboard teases a final round for the ages.
Masters champion Rory McIlroy praised the massive “potential” of the Australian Open for his inspiration to save a near-nightmare missed cut with a champion finish to his second round at Royal Melbourne.
After a career-changing birdie blitz in the final hour of the DP World Tour season, newly-minted PGA Tour player Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen feels he belongs atop the Australian Open leaderboard at Royal Melbourne.
Elvis Smylie says a breakthrough DP World Tour win and a solid year on the European circuit prepared him to upstage Rory McIlroy and other more experienced stars on day one at the Australian Open at a windy Royal Melbourne.
Spanish professional David Puig has become the first international winner since 2016 and just the second from his homeland to claim the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Future locations for the Australian PGA Championship are uncertain, with Royal Queensland set to relinquish hosting rights for at least the next few years.
For all the eclectic ingredients this BMW Australian PGA Championship has offered up for three days, the most compelling of all is the complete absence of any certainty in the outcome.
Some of Australian golf’s biggest names in Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee backed Cameron Smith to bounce back from a horror run of form after the former major winner missed the cut at his home event, the Australian PGA at Royal Queensland.
A day after recording a hole-in-one, New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori carded a sensational 63 to upstage big names such as former champions Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott on day two at the Australian PGA, before darkness suspended play Friday at Royal Queensland.