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australian open
Banana peel trips up superstar McIlroy's Open hopes
Drawcard Rory McIlroy wants to finish with a bang after his hopes of challenging for for a second Australian Open title were derailed by a banana peel.
6 Dec 2025
Final Round Tee-times Australian Open
The last round tee-times are in, and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (-14) will head out in the final group with Cameron Smith and Si Woo Kim (both -12). Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee (both -10) will play together two groups back and are well within striking distance as we head into championship Sunday in the Australian Open.
6 Dec 2025
Under the radar into contention: Si Woo’s scintillating Australian Open Saturday
Si Woo Kim, coming to contend the Australian Open, slid under the radar.
6 Dec 2025
Cleary: McIlroy shoots 68 as the golf gods go crazy
Rory McIlroy has battled heat, wind, rain, clutching ti-tree and children squealing like banshees for his autograph. Yet nothing in his long career could have prepared him for what the golf gods threw at him in round three of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
6 Dec 2025
Australian Open third round tee times
Moving Day arrives at Royal Melbourne. The field is set for a defining third round. Rain and wind are scheduled today as the championship picture begins to take shape across the Sandbelt.
6 Dec 2025
Open buzzing as star Australian trio chases leaders
With 50,000 fans expected in the next two days and Min Woo Lee leading the local charge, Cameron Smith says the Australian Open has regained its lofty status.
6 Dec 2025
Aussie stars light up the Open
Australian superstars Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott and Cameron Smith are all within two shots of the lead at the halfway mark of the Australian Open.
5 Dec 2025
Diamonds from the rough see McIlroy still standing
Rory McIlroy has avoided disappointing 50,000 Australian Open golf fans with the global superstar recovering from a rare air swing to make the halfway cut.
5 Dec 2025
Kiwis eyeing drought-busting Australian Open title
The Australian Open is to Kiwi golf players what Eden Park is to the Wallabies, with Ryan Fox and Daniel Hillier hopeful of making history at Royal Melbourne.
5 Dec 2025
Hoffman: Royal Melbourne not enough to entice PGA Tour stars
With Rory McIlroy locked in for two years and lauding the Australian Open and our Sandbelt gems, will it entice his fellow PGA Tour stars to contest our national crown? To paraphrase and Australianise one PGA Tour veteran, yeah-nah.
5 Dec 2025
McIlroy and Aussie stars shift to afternoon action at the Open
Rory McIlroy will start the second round of the Australian Open on Friday seven shots adrift of the leading trio.
5 Dec 2025
Elvis smiling as young gun shoots to share of Open lead
Elvis Smylie had the Australian Open field, including megastar Rory McIlroy, all shook up, with the Queensland young gun claiming a share of the round-one lead.
4 Dec 2025
Tough Open start doesn't deter Croker from relishing life in the big league
Queensland’s Quinn Croker, 22, had a stellar amateur career and over the past 16 months has made the jump to the professional ranks, relishing every opportunity - including a tough start to his maiden Australian Open.
4 Dec 2025
Rory fever takes hold at Royal Melbourne
Tournament drawcard Rory McIlroy has mixed five birdies and six bogeys on a rollercoaster start to his Australian Open campaign.
4 Dec 2025
Australian Open Round Two Tee-Times
Ryan Fox, Si Woo Kim and Joaquin Niemann will make up a cosmopolitan three-ball in the morning session of round two of the Australian Open, while Rory McIlroy, Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott will again be afternoon's marquee match. All the tee-times here.
4 Dec 2025
High winds and slick greens all good for Smith
Cameron Smith is well placed to end a long run of missed cuts after a good start to the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
4 Dec 2025
Periscopes up! A morning with the masses and the marquee group
Matt Cleary was out early among the teeming masses at Royal Melbourne, straining on tippy-toes to see the great one, Rory McIlroy, take on the course he rated top 10 in the world but not the best course in Melbourne. And despite McIlroy's card looking like an 18-marker's in a par-comp, the appreciative galleries took Cleary back to simpler times...
4 Dec 2025
Let him cook ... and eat: Lee hoping to feast at Open
Ahead of this year's Australian Open, Min Woo Lee has bulked up, saying he needed to become stronger after suffering a bizarre injury in last year's lead-up.
4 Dec 2025
McIlroy sets cat among birdies at Royal Melbourne
Golf superstar Rory McIlroy loves playing in Australia but isn't sure about Royal Melbourne, the venue for the Australian Open, rating another course over it.
3 Dec 2025
"I'm in": When Adam Scott talked Rory McIlroy into playing Australian Open
Rory McIlroy decided he would play this year's Australian Open at Royal Melbourne before he won the Masters at Augusta National in April, the man himself revealed, among other things, to John Huggan in the feature piece of our December issue.
3 Dec 2025
Refreshed Cam Davis seeks another Royal Melbourne mark
Cam Davis is aiming to win his second Australian Open, back in his happy place this week at Royal Melbourne where he still owns a course record.
3 Dec 2025
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