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.
China’s Yunhe ‘Sampson’ Zheng produced one of the greatest-ever rounds at Royal Melbourne Golf Club as a howling northerly wind wreaked havoc in the third round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship.
Chinese Taipei’s Chuan-Tai Lin and China’s Wenyi Ding shared the 36-hole lead at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship on a day when Royal Melbourne’s fickle breezes brought many rounds undone.
Harrison Crowe knows exactly what it’s like to play Augusta National, but he urges all those chasing the lure at this month’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Melbourne to ignore the outcome and focus on the present.
Emboldened by Royal Melbourne’s stance, leading Australian golf clubs are close to finalising ‘no jab, no play’ policies of their own to return to full capacity.
The world-famous club appears to have led the way with its announcement to members recently that they would have to prove they were vaccinated against COVID-19 – or have a legitimate excuse – before they could play.
Golf clubs in Australia’s worst bushfire affected regions have received a funding boost, thanks to the generosity of the golf community around the world.