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.
Scanning through some of the best modern players in the game and their best statistical rounds in that period, Els’ 60 at Royal Melbourne in 2004 betters them all.
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.
Former champion Joaquin Niemann heads a list of four internationally acclaimed players who have been confirmed as starters in the men’s Australian Open at Royal Melbourne Golf Club from December 4-7.
Mexico’s Abraham Ancer will return to Australia in 2025, with the former winner on our shores set to tee it up at the BMW Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane and men’s Australian Open in Melbourne.
For the first time in tournament history, extra holes were required to decide a winner of any category at Geoff Ogilvy’s Sandbelt Invitational, with Ryan Peake triumphing over David Micheluzzi at Royal Melbourne to claim the overall prize.
Gale needed his first hole-in-one in competition since his very first as a 12-year-old over the closing stages and a gritty par at the last for a 12-under total and one-shot win over Matt Griffin.
This week’s Sandbelt Invitational is an opportunity for the veterans of Australian golf to impart their wisdom and experience onto the next generation.
Australian Golf Digest
