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Barty headlines NZ Open ambassador line-up

Barty headlines NZ Open ambassador line-up

Former tennis World No.1 Ash Barty is confirmed to headline the ambassador line up for the 103rd New Zealand Open, set to take place between February 29 and March 3, 2024 at Queenstown’s Millbrook Resort. 24 Jan 2024
Minjee in the running for Women in Sport award

Minjee in the running for Women in Sport award

Minjee Lee’s season isn’t yet finished with a number of LPGA Tour starts left on the schedule and a potential trip home to Australia for the ISPS HANDA Australian Open if organisers get their way. 19 Sep 2022
Barty backing Cameron Smith to lift Claret Jug

Barty backing Cameron Smith to lift Claret Jug

Self-confessed golf nut Ash Barty reckons Cameron Smith will break Australia's 29-year Open Championship drought after again walking St. Andrews' famous fairways with the in-form World No.6. 14 Jul 2022
Barty to tee it up at ‘Icons Series’ exhibition

Barty to tee it up at ‘Icons Series’ exhibition

Ash Barty is returning to the world sporting stage, this time wielding a golf club rather than a tennis racquet. 19 Apr 2022
Could 21 be Scott’s lucky number at Augusta?

Could 21 be Scott’s lucky number at Augusta?

Don't expect any Ash Barty-style exit if Adam Scott wins another Masters, with the former World No.1 revealing he's "a few majors away" from even contemplating retirement. 31 Mar 2022
‘Wouldn't put it past Ash to win Australian Amateur’: Webb

‘Wouldn't put it past Ash to win Australian Amateur’: Webb

While Tiger Woods was wowed by Ash Barty's swing, Australian great Karrie Webb says the retiring tennis star also has the finesse that could make her a golf champion. 25 Mar 2022
Aus PGA WITB: Louis Dobbelaar

Aus PGA WITB: Louis Dobbelaar

Young Queenslander Louis Dobbelaar has put his best foot forward at the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship on day one, hanging around the top of the leaderboard. Here is what he has in the bag that is being carried by Ash Barty’s fiancé Garry Kissick. 13 Jan 2022
Digger out to do a Ben Curtis at Sandwich

Digger out to do a Ben Curtis at Sandwich

Deyen Lawson – "or "Digger" as everyone in Australian golf knows him – is a 1,000-1 outsider to win The Open in his debut major, but there's no harm in the big man dreaming big at the venue which 18 years ago delivered one of the game's most improbable winners. 15 Jul 2021
Barty title boosts Aussie golfers at Open

Barty title boosts Aussie golfers at Open

Ash Barty's Wimbledon triumph has buoyed Australia's top golfers as they seek to follow up with an Open Championship triumph. 15 Jul 2021
Aussie big guns out to end Open drought

Aussie big guns out to end Open drought

Blame it on Ash Barty. Or on the recent spate of other Australian sporting success stories. Or on Cameron Smith convincing himself that being born exactly a month after Greg Norman last won The Open could be some sort of omen. 14 Jul 2021
Scott changes clubs to change Open fortune

Scott changes clubs to change Open fortune

Adam Scott is one of the more experienced players in the field at the 149th Open Championship. The insights gained from his 20 previous starts leading to multiple equipment changes at Royal St. George’s this week. 13 Jul 2021
Barty wins golf club championship

Barty wins golf club championship

COVID-19 may have cruelled her French Open hopes but it's done wonders for Ashleigh Barty's golf game. 21 Sep 2020
Morri: “Sport does funny things to people and golf is not immune.”

Morri: “Sport does funny things to people and golf is not immune.”

The absurdity of it only becomes clear if you think about it. 14 Dec 2019