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Laisne’s local-led strategy delivering big gains on Aussie soil
There's something that's both endearing and very refreshing about watching Frenchwoman Agathe Laisne go about her business on a golf course.
18 Mar 2026
History beckons for red-hot amateur Jazy Roberts
From teenage prodigies to fearless amateurs, the WPGA’s biggest stages have long rewarded the bold. Now, rising Victorian Jazy Roberts arrives at Sanctuary Cove ready to test her game against the best.
18 Mar 2026
Green arrives red-hot as Oh chases delayed WPGA defence
The Australian WPGA Championship is being played as a stand-alone event for the first time after debuting alongside the men’s PGA Championship at Royal Queensland in 2022.
18 Mar 2026
Drought-Busters: Our Best Hopes of Lifting Patricia Bridges Bowl
The Women’s Australian Open begins on Thursday at Kooyonga and 31 Australians will tee it up. Paul Prendergast profiles the rising stars and established names looking to lift the Patricia Bridges Bowl and break the 11-year drought since the last home-grown victor.
11 Mar 2026
Coastal challenge awaits Australian Women’s Classic field at Magenta Shores
Co-sanctioned WPGA/LET golf returns to the Magenta Shores Golf and Country Club after a two-year absence, with the Australian Women’s Classic to be staged for the first time outside the Coffs Harbour region across March 5-8.
4 Mar 2026
Hero World Challenge field spotlights Australian Open hurdle and OWGR prospects
The soon-to-be 50-year-old Tiger Woods has recently announced the 20 players to contest the tournament that benefits the Tiger Woods Foundation, the Hero World Challenge in Albany, The Bahamas.
9 Nov 2025
The Aussies at The Open
Nine Aussies take on Royal Portrush at this week's 153rd Open Championship. Paul Prendergast reports on the Australians' chances in Northern Ireland.
16 Jul 2025
The Open Preview: Back Again
Royal Portrush will provide a stirring conclusion to a tumultuous major season.
15 Jul 2025
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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