Paul Prendergast

The Aussie invaders at Oakmont: we profile our half-dozen chances

The Aussie invaders at Oakmont: we profile our half-dozen chances

Our man Paul Prendergast profiles the chances of the six Australians who will tee it up at Oakmont in this 125th U.S Open. 11 Jun 2025
No escape: Fearsome Oakmont a brutal test of world's best

No escape: Fearsome Oakmont a brutal test of world's best

The U.S Open returns with all its trademark grit, glory and grind. Back at fearsome Oakmont, golf’s ultimate test will again separate the bold from the broken at a major where history looms large and every shot carries championship weight, writes Paul Prendergast. 10 Jun 2025
No time like the present for Jordan O’Brien

No time like the present for Jordan O’Brien

Cyclone Alfred’s impact left players like WPGA Tour of Australasia regular Jordan O’Brien adjusting their plans as they now turn their focus to this weekend’s Australian Women’s Classic in Coffs Harbour. 12 Mar 2025
Green revelling in an opportunity to support Australian golf

Green revelling in an opportunity to support Australian golf

Some of the most endearing images that you get to witness at each Sandbelt Invitational – aside from the magnificent holes, green complexes and native vegetation in every direction – are often the interactions between the veteran players and the up-and-comers playing not only the event, but Sandbelt golf for the first time. 17 Dec 2024
The Ace: Not seen, but heard, around the ‘Belt.

The Ace: Not seen, but heard, around the ‘Belt.

Daniel Gale will not be able to defend his Sandbelt Invitational title in 2024 and listening to him speak about it during the recent Australian PGA Championship, there would be none more disappointed about it than he. 16 Dec 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: The Brisbane Golf Club

Top-100 Spotlight: The Brisbane Golf Club

Founded in the late 19th century, Brisbane’s oldest golf club boasts an honour board adorned with the names of all-time greats who have won club and significant amateur events, including the likes of Norman Von Nida and Frank Phillips. 14 Aug 2024
Birthday girl Hammett impresses at the Sandbelt Invitational.

Birthday girl Hammett impresses at the Sandbelt Invitational.

Watching Sarah Hammett play golf and maintain a consistently placid demeanour through thick and thin these past three days at the Sandbelt Invitational, you’d be forgiven for thinking that she’s back home on the Gold Coast in familiar surrounds, playing with her friends around a home course she knows well. 14 Dec 2023
Komulainen’s pre-college study session at Sandbelt Invitational

Komulainen’s pre-college study session at Sandbelt Invitational

Queensland teenager Kai Komulainen is the latest Australian to tread a well-worn path to the U.S collegiate system – first trod back in the 1980s by Steve Elkington – when he takes up a full scholarship at the University of Tennessee in 2024. 13 Dec 2023
Bitter sweet finish for good bloke Badds

Bitter sweet finish for good bloke Badds

In a 20-minute period at The Australian Golf Club just prior to the leading groups teeing off, two-time Australian Open Aaron Baddeley provided ample demonstration of why he’s widely regarded as ‘a good bloke’. 3 Dec 2023
A still unrivalled three-peat at Hoylake

A still unrivalled three-peat at Hoylake

As the hours tick down to the last men’s major championship of the year at Royal Liverpool, with Australian Cameron Smith set to defend his title as the ‘Champion Golfer of the Year’, a moment’s pause to consider the impactful deeds of the late Peter Thomson at this venue in 1956 would not be remiss. 18 Jul 2023
Wollongong’s junior program making champions

Wollongong’s junior program making champions

There must be something in the water in the ‘Gong’, as the Wollongong Golf Club and its members celebrate a wave of exciting young players bursting forth from a junior program the club had the foresight to introduce more than 10 years ago. 15 Mar 2023
The Preview: Sandbelt Invitational

The Preview: Sandbelt Invitational

Australia’s finest layout, Royal Melbourne, will again headline a quartet of some of the Melbourne Sandbelt’s finest layouts, alongside Yarra Yarra, Kingston Heath and Peninsula-Kingswood, playing host to the second Sandbelt Invitational from December 19-22. 18 Dec 2022
Review: Nudgee Golf Club

Review: Nudgee Golf Club

With a Centenary year fast approaching, Brisbane’s Nudgee Golf Club is on the cusp of completing what is arguably the most exciting project in their long history. 23 Feb 2022
Sanctuary Cove reveals The Pines’ $5 million facelift

Sanctuary Cove reveals The Pines’ $5 million facelift

Circling the carpark to find the last available spot was the first indication and the energised throng of members on the putting green and filling almost every available space on the driving range in the distance on a glorious July winter’s day confirmed all suspicions. 2 Aug 2021
“Jack is Back” – 40 years on from Nicklaus’ greatest comeback

“Jack is Back” – 40 years on from Nicklaus’ greatest comeback

It’s commonplace and often a little frustrating that we have a tendency to assign the moniker of ‘legend’ or ‘great’ far too casually these days. 16 Sep 2020
No.1 was Jon Rahm’s destiny

No.1 was Jon Rahm’s destiny

It was less than four years ago that Melbourne's Kingston Heath Golf Club played host to the 2016 World Cup of Golf under a set of qualification rules that many had to read two or three times to get their heads around. 23 Jul 2020
The Pitfalls of DIY Course Design

The Pitfalls of DIY Course Design

Recent major course renovations at some big-name clubs in Australia have come under the watchful eye of experienced course architects and have received rave reviews. The clubs have benefitted from trusting an expert eye, reminding once again of the potential pitfalls DIY course changes, or lack thereof, can cause. 7 Nov 2019
Presidential Visit: The effect of Trump on Royal Melbourne

Presidential Visit: The effect of Trump on Royal Melbourne

Donald Trump made history when he attended the final day of the 2017 Presidents Cup at Liberty National. And the controversial US President has been rumoured to be heading to our shores for the 2019 staging in December. If Trump does head Down Under, a first-hand account of the impact his presence had in 2017 offers an insight into what might be expected. 31 Oct 2019
Ernie’s Internationals’ core strength

Ernie’s Internationals’ core strength

With the core of his Internationals Presidents Cup team seemingly in place, Ernie Els is looking for lightning in a bottle. 11 Jul 2019
New Course: The ‘re-gen’ of Peninsula Kingswood

New Course: The ‘re-gen’ of Peninsula Kingswood

The biggest course redevelopment in Australian golfing history is set to propel Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club’s North and South Courses onto the world stage. 4 Jun 2019
Are Tiger and his men fair dinkum about the Presidents Cup?

Are Tiger and his men fair dinkum about the Presidents Cup?

Tiger Woods breezing into Melbourne recently to promote the Presidents Cup potentially did more for the Internationals’ hopes next December than those witnessing the great man up close for possibly the first time might have realised. 7 Dec 2018

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