The battle for the time-honoured Stonehaven Cup, one of world golf’s oldest trophies, will take place at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney from November 25-28.
The smoke has cleared, figuratively if not literally, and the make-up of yet another Jason Day-less national championship has more clarity even if the skies above The Australian Golf Club do not.
Picture this Australian Open field next year: Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Rickie Fowler, among a host of other international stars inside the world’s Top-50 rankings.
Jason Day set himself up for the fall. In the end, his finish to the Emirates Australian Open was emblematic of his winless 2017 – his first since 2012 – a little faltering, and slightly error-prone.
In 13 months as a professional, Sydney’s Cameron Davis had hardly set the world on fire. That all changed at The Australian Golf Club on Sunday afternoon when he fulfilled a boyhood dream and captured the Emirates Australian Open.
Australian Golf Digest
