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.
Rory McIlroy capped his topsy-turvy 2025 Crown Australian Open campaign with a brilliant birdie putt on the final hole, sealing a remarkable turnaround after flirting with the cut earlier in the week.
Australian Open contender Cameron Smith is dreaming of a triumphant comeback win from a highly-publicised “crappy year” having salvaged a place in the last group at Royal Melbourne, where a star-studded leaderboard teases a final round for the ages.
“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.
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.
Enormous crowds greeted Rory McIlroy at Royal Melbourne on Thursday morning as Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith and others lived up to their billing with solid starts to the tournament.
World No.418 Sebastian Garcia blitzed the Royal Queensland layout in seven-under-par for the 15 holes he completed in the afternoon wave before storms halted play early.
Approaching 100 consecutive majors next year, Adam Scott says his body is limber enough to hang with the young studs of modern golf but the former world No.1 would love an Australian victory over the next fortnight to prove it.
The fireworks were surprisingly sparse in the ‘top 100 on the FedEx points list’ department, however the top of the leaderboard provided something we’ve never seen before in the long history of the PGA Tour: a winner from the nation of Finland.
It looked like Korda’s best option would be to play to the left, find the centre of the green and take the long birdie putt. Apparently she saw another line.
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