If Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen’s clinical dismantling of Royal Melbourne’s Composite course en route to winning the Crown Australian Open looked like an all-around top performance, that’s because it was – at least from an equipment standpoint.
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.
Cameron Smith missed a short putt to take the Australian Open into a playoff at Royal Melbourne after Denmark’s Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen made a sublime par save to lift the Stonehaven Cup.
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.
Min Woo Lee delivered the moment of the day in the second round of the Crown Australian Open, holing out for a spectacular eagle on the par-4 10th of Royal Melbourne’s famed composite course.
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.
With the start of the 2025 Crown Australian Open just 13 days away, the field is taking its final form with a late dash of international flavour added this week from the DP World Tour.
Among the latest starters are Denmark’s Rasmus Neergard-Petersen, Korea’s Jungwhan Lee, Japan’s Yuto Katsuragawa, English trio Alex Fitzpatrick, Eddie Pepperell and Andrew “Beef” Johnston, Italy’s Renato Paratore, Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger, Spaniard Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat and China’s Wenyi Ding.