Jason Day has flagged his interest in returning to Australia more often after bagging a top 10 at the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland to cap an “emotional” week in Brisbane.
Min Woo Lee revealed a “freak injury” to his knee hampered preparation for his title defence at the Australian PGA Championship but believes he’ll recover in time for a shot at the Open next week in Melbourne.
Home hero Cameron Smith took the Australian PGA Championship by the scruff of the neck with a blistering second round in Brisbane that set up a final-round showdown with former Smith scholarship winner Elvis Smylie and LIV Golf teammate Marc Leishman.
Lucas Herbert believes there are enough similarities between the 54-hole tournaments he plays on LIV Golf and the aggressive mentality needed for this week’s shortened Australian PGA Championship to be in with a chance on Sunday’s final round.
Former world No.1 Jason Day has welcomed a Sunday showdown with Cameron Smith at the Australian PGA Championship after the tournament drawcards put themselves on a collision course for a battle in Brisbane.
Elvis Smylie pulled off a great escape when he holed a bunker shot on the last hole to steal the Australian PGA Championship lead from superstars Cameron Smith and Jason Day, midway through the first round.
Reigning Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit champion Kazuma Kobori and DP World Tour winner Daniel Hillier are locked in to head the New Zealand challenge at our two primary golf tournaments.
PGA Tour member Victor Perez heads a group of DP World Tour winners and rising stars who have been added to the fields for the Summer of Golf’s two major tournaments, the BMW Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane and ISPS Handa Australian Open in Melbourne.
A past winner of the Australian PGA and Open, 44-year-old Scott has revealed exclusively to Australian Golf Digest that he has opted to rest after a year in which he finished T-4 out of the PGA Tour’s best 30 golfers in the season-long standings.
Australia’s newest PGA Tour member, Karl Vilips, is heading home to play in his first ISPS Handa Australian Open as a professional on the famed Melbourne Sandbelt. He will be joined at Kingston Heath and Victoria golf clubs from November 28 to December 1 by American Harry Higgs, who is returning to the PGA Tour for the 2025 season, and Chile’s Cristobal Del Solar, who has been inspired to play in our Open by countryman and defending champion Joaquin Niemann.
The rarity of Cameron Smith playing two state-level tournaments is not lost on Australian current and former pros like Jake Higginbottom and rookie Phoenix Campbell.