A blockbuster Australian Open at the iconic Royal Melbourne has left golf fans craving more national championships on the Sandbelt, after record crowds and global interest in the TV broadcast sent the national championship back to its glory days.
In partnership with Visit Victoria, the Masters champion embarked on a whirlwind “Ode to the Sandbelt” tour, taking on five of the region’s most iconic holes
A blockbuster Australian Open at the iconic Royal Melbourne has left golf fans craving more national championships on the Sandbelt, after record crowds and global interest in the TV broadcast sent the national championship back to its glory days.
“HE’S MISSED IT!” So said a member of the gallery late on Day 2 at the 2025 Crown Australian Open. Tournament drawcard Rory McIlroy had hearts in mouths as he flirted with disaster at Royal Melbourne’s par-5 14th hole, spraying his tee-shot before a swing-and-a-miss in the shrubs led to a rare par-5 bogey and Read more…
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.
Adam Scott says there’s no denying an Australian Open victory at Royal Melbourne sits in its own league of career accomplishments as he eyes the first opportunity of his long career to hoist the Stonehaven Cup at the famed Sandbelt course.
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.
Adam Scott has applauded Rory McIlroy for scheduling his return to the Australian Open and the move to bring Royal Melbourne back as a host for the first time in 34 years.
Masters champion and career grand slam winner Rory McIlroy’s commitment to play in the Australian Open in Melbourne has blown tournament officials away with “unprecedented” ticket sales coming in the first 24 hours.
Rory McIlroy has been locked in to make a competitive return Down Under to play in the Australian Open for two years in a mega coup for the country’s golf landscape.
Jasper Stubbs has won the Asia Pacific Amateur at Royal Melbourne, punching his ticket to next year’s 2024 Masters and Open Championship. Stubbs, 21, who lives 2km from Royal Melbourne, was five-over for the tournament after six holes of the final round but rattled off four birdies in his last 12 holes to shoot 69. Read more…
A day after decorated British amateur golfer Sir Michael Bonallack was laid to rest, the amateur course record he held for 55 years at Royal Melbourne’s Composite course was beaten. If the five-time winner of Britain’s Amateur Championship could have seen the howling winds on Day 3, he would have impressed at Sampson Zheng’s six-under Read more…
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