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Ogilvy: U.S Open's toughness means testing limits

Ogilvy: U.S Open's toughness means testing limits

It has forever been the most controversial of the four major championships. Especially when the topic of conversation is course set-up. 12 Jun 2025
Column: The Hard Way Pays

Column: The Hard Way Pays

Players breaking through in their 30s used to be as common as rain in spring. 12 Jun 2025
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
Cleary: A LIV player can win the U.S Open, Brandel's off his head

Cleary: A LIV player can win the U.S Open, Brandel's off his head

With nine holes to play in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, there was an old-fashioned two-horse war. It was like Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star at Moonee Valley in the 1986 W.S Cox Plate. Two mighty thoroughbreds, straining, fighting, charging home for the win. It was quite exciting. 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
World Exclusive: Trump’s Indonesian Tee-off

World Exclusive: Trump’s Indonesian Tee-off

Whether it’s politics, business or opinions, Donald Trump is always full-on, pushing boundaries and, it seems, usually getting what he wants. So, it is with the 17 golf courses in the Trump Golf portfolio, with its latest – and first in the Southern Hemisphere – now open in Indonesia. Like Trump himself and his modus operandi, it offers a no-compromise golf experience. 10 Jun 2025
Luxury, Precision and Golf: The Lexus Ultimate Sandbelt Experience

Luxury, Precision and Golf: The Lexus Ultimate Sandbelt Experience

Picture this: three days of world-class golf on Australia’s most prestigious courses, a stay at an iconic luxury hotel, and exquisite dining at an award-winning restaurant. Now, add to that an exclusive group of Lexus Encore members, custom-fitted golf gear and a competition format designed to thrill – this was the Lexus Ultimate Golf Experience. 1 Jun 2025
The Aussies at the U.S Women’s Open

The Aussies at the U.S Women’s Open

So, here we are, headed into the second women’s major of the year, the 80th U.S Women’s Open, to be held at Erin Hills in Wisconsin from Thursday night (AEST). 28 May 2025
Say her name: U.S Women's Open tip is in

Say her name: U.S Women's Open tip is in

She's the favourite for the U.S Women's Open. She's number two in the world. She may be the best player you've never heard of. 27 May 2025
Cleary: our mate Digs and a jock called Pikey

Cleary: our mate Digs and a jock called Pikey

After tragic news about a pal from golf, Matt Cleary and his mates gathered at the club and did their best to make sense of it, and to honour their friend as best they could. They had a little help from a legend of the west. 26 May 2025
Cleary: PGA's a bludger of a major, and two-time major champion can't change my mind

Cleary: PGA's a bludger of a major, and two-time major champion can't change my mind

Many people agree that holding three of four major championships in the United States, particularly one that invites 20 club professionals from that country, should not be a thing in these globalised times. One two-time major champion and legend of Australian golf does not agree, however. 19 May 2025
Cleary: Rory to Repeat at Happy Hunting Hollow

Cleary: Rory to Repeat at Happy Hunting Hollow

Our man Matt Cleary tipped him to win the Masters, and he's tipping him to win the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, too. Rory McIlroy has no more monkey on his back, is in the prime of a stellar, generational playing career, and, in the parlance of the great Australian mug-punter, is in ridiculous form. 15 May 2025
Ogilvy: All that really matters is what the ball does

Ogilvy: All that really matters is what the ball does

Like just about every golfer, I suspect, I have spent my life searching for a better golf swing. It all started when I was very young, at a time when I was lucky enough to receive some vital lessons from great club professionals. 14 May 2025
Flashback: Elkington's 1995 PGA Championship triumph

Flashback: Elkington's 1995 PGA Championship triumph

Thirty years ago, Australia’s Steve Elkington etched his name into golfing history with a dramatic victory at the 1995 PGA Championship at Riviera Country Club. 14 May 2025
Feature Story: Familiar but fierce

Feature Story: Familiar but fierce

Feature written by Garrett Johnston. 14 May 2025
Cleary: Lookin' at you, America. Spread the love and gift fourth major to the world

Cleary: Lookin' at you, America. Spread the love and gift fourth major to the world

In Part Three of Matt Cleary's plea to the powers-that-be to confer major status on a different country's national Open each year on a rota, he declares that while it will be anathema to America - sorry, America - the PGA of America needs to relinquish major status of its PGA Championship and gift it to the world. 14 May 2025
The Aussies at the U.S PGA Championship

The Aussies at the U.S PGA Championship

Quail Hollow in Charlotte is the stage for the 107th U.S PGA Championship, and there are seven Aussie hopefuls lining up in an attempt to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy, one of which has tasted victory around the regular tour layout once before. 13 May 2025
When a gin-slinging journo pal of Arnold Palmer's created golf's grand slam

When a gin-slinging journo pal of Arnold Palmer's created golf's grand slam

The concept – some would describe it as a “construct” – of major championships, as we know them today, first gained traction in 1960, when Arnold Palmer was on his way to play the Open Championship at St Andrews after winning the Masters and U.S Open. 13 May 2025
Cleary: PGA Championship is generic, beefed-up Tour event not befitting major status

Cleary: PGA Championship is generic, beefed-up Tour event not befitting major status

It is the mangiest of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It is the drummer in Spinal Tap. It is the character “Mike” – the not very funny one – in The Young Ones. It is a fifth wheel in a four-event swing. It is, of course, the United States PGA Championship, known as a “major” championship. And its time should be up, reckons Matt Cleary. 12 May 2025
Cleary: "Maybe more is more": How established tours trump LIV Golf

Cleary: "Maybe more is more": How established tours trump LIV Golf

Despite a motherlode of publicity in the popular, social and anti-social media - not to mention an estimated $US5 billion in seed money from Saudi Arabia - LIV Golf's TV ratings reflect that it hasn't shaken its "exhibition" tag, reckons Matt Cleary (and LIV Golf insiders). 7 May 2025
Ogilvy Column: It's going to be stressful. I’m going to be busy. But I am ready

Ogilvy Column: It's going to be stressful. I’m going to be busy. But I am ready

In an exclusive column for Golf Australia magazine, new Internationals captain Geoff Ogilvy says momentum, local knowledge (his architecture company just redesigned the host course) and Chicago’s cultural ties with Melbourne will be just some of the factors that can snap his team's 25-year-long losing streak to the USA in Presidents Cup. 1 May 2025

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