The winner of the Australian Open will earn a place in the Masters field after the Augusta tournament confirmed they will again award invitations to winners of six select national opens.
Golf Australia has updated its Gender Policy for the first time since 2016, aligning with international frameworks while balancing club-level inclusion with competitive fairness at the elite amateur level.
It’s been 13 years since the Open Championship was last played at Muirfield. Here’s what’s really behind the R&A’s ongoing standoff with one of the game’s greatest courses.
American Yealimi Noh has moved to the brink of a breakthrough major title after taking a three-shot lead on day three of the Women’s Open, but Australian hopes look slim heading into the final day.
Yealimi Noh is a believer in the power of manifestation and it has helped the 25-year-old American build a three-shot lead with a round to play at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
Favourite Haeran Ryu has moved into the halfway lead at the Women’s British Open as Australian hopes again failed to trouble the upper reaches of the leaderboard. Robyn Choi led the Aussie challenge, following her first-round 70 with a 71 to finish on a one-under-par 141, six shots off the lead. The next highest Aussie Read more…
Haeran Ryu has justified her favourite’s tag by leading after the second round of the AIG Women’s Open while Robyn Choi, six shots adrift, is the top Aussie.
A day after the R&A issued a two-stroke penalty to Bryson DeChambeau at the Open Championship for inadvertently improving the area of his swing path for his second shot on the fifth hole during the second round, R&A CEO Mark Darbon shed a little more light on how the penalty came to be in an interview with BBC Radio.
In the Rules of Golf, Rule 8.1 states that a player is prohibited from improving the “conditions affecting the stroke.” That includes the player’s lie, the area of his intended stance, the area of the player’s intended swing and the player’s line of play.
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