Rory McIlroy has never shied away from speaking his mind, but even by his standards this one was a bold swing on the eve of his first appearance at Royal Melbourne Golf Club as a professional for the 2025 Crown Australian Open.
Reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy has set his sights on an Australian Open victory at Royal Melbourne after applauding tournament organisers for ditching the mixed format and returning the 121-year-old event to Melbourne’s famed Sandbelt region.
Rory McIlroy, Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott are the headline group for the 2025 Australian Open at Royal Melbourne as officials revealed the draw for the opening two rounds.
On the eve of the 2025 Crown Australian Open, Golf Australia has today confirmed that the 2026 event will be held from Thursday, December 3 to Sunday, December 6 at Kingston Heath Golf Club.
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.
Rory McIlroy lost in a playoff to Matthew Fitzpatrick at the DP World Tour Championship, yet still won the season-long Race to Dubai for the fourth year in a row and seventh of his career.
To commemorate Rory McIlroy’s historic career Grand Slam, the DP World Tour is launching a new award in the Northern Irishman’s name that will focus on the majors.
If LIV Golf’s move to 72 holes was driven to gain Official World Golf Rankings status, it has left reigning Masters champion Rory McIlroy a little confused.
Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley and R&A chief executive Mark Darbon have echoed Rory McIlroy’s sentiments from the recent controversial Ryder Cup at Bethpage that golf should be held to a higher standard of fan behaviour than other sports.
Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley said a surge in the percentage of international players competing in the Masters in recent years was the inspiration to award the winners of the Australian Open and five other national opens a spot into the April major in the future.
DP World India champion Tommy Fleetwood had only recently broken through for a long-awaited maiden PGA Tour win at the season-ending Tour Championship when his son, Frankie, set him a new challenge.
Tommy Fleetwood got the bounce of a lifetime out of a forest at Delhi Golf Club, the site of this week’s DP World India Championship, which features such a narrow course that nearly 50 per cent of the players this week left a driver out of their bag.
Australian Golf Digest
