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2025 BMW Australian PGA Championship dates confirmed
The BMW Australian PGA Championship has locked in its dates for 2025, with tickets now on sale.
18 Feb 2025
What would Australian golf do if the Saudis turned up with a big bag of money?
In part three of our feature with Gavin Kirkman, the PGA of Australia chief expands on our local tour, his hopes that LIV and PGA Inc. will find common ground, and what he'd say if Saudi PIF executives turned up with a big bag of money.
21 Nov 2024
LIV, the PGA, the PIF, and all that: Gav Kirkman on where Australia sits in golf's ecosystem
In part two of our feature piece with PGA of Australia chief Gavin Kirkman, we discuss Australia's position in the great PGA Tour versus LIV Golf imbroglio, how to attract international players to our 'major' tournaments ("have you heard of the Whitsundays?"), and why Australia has aligned with the 'European' tour when there's a Saudi-funded Asian one on our doorstep.
20 Nov 2024
It's complicated: the challenges and opportunities for Australia's PGA
Gavin Kirkman, CEO of the PGA of Australia, has to provide the best pathway opportunities for Australia’s players and at the same time try to satisfy local fans and sponsors by luring the biggest names in golf come to support our major tournaments. In part one of Matt Cleary's feature (in our December issue, on shelves now) we discuss his organisation's challenges and opportunities...
19 Nov 2024
Inside Golf Australia: December 2024
The festive season is upon us, and so is the much-anticipated December issue of Golf Australia magazine.
13 Nov 2024
BMW announced as title partner of the Australian PGA Championship
Globally renowned premium automotive leader BMW will become the title partner of the Australian PGA Championship.
2 Jul 2024
PGA Tour of Australasia launches new era with Challenger
Today marks a new dawn for the PGA Tour of Australasia, with Australian investment management firm Challenger signing on as exclusive naming rights partner – its first partnership in Australian sport.
4 Oct 2023
Slow players forewarned ahead of Aussie Summer
Australia's golfers have been placed on notice that snail-pace play won't be tolerated this summer.
1 Aug 2023
Aussie Tour part of golf’s new world order conversations
The news of the merger between the PGA and DP World Tours and Saudi Arabia’s golf entities will undoubtedly have an effect on Australian golf. Just what that is, however, remains to be seen.
7 Jun 2023
Golf industry leaves Melbourne full of inspiration
As golfers head to the course for their weekend game there will be some faces that look a little more exhausted than usual in the form of golf professionals, club managers and more this week.
14 Oct 2022
Karen Lunn becomes first woman to chair Australian Golf Industry Council
Karen Lunn has made history by becoming the first-ever woman to chair the Australian Golf Industry Council.
13 Oct 2022
More money as Aussie Tour moves to points system
Five tournaments have received further prize money boosts as the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia announces changes to the structure of its Order of Merit for the 2022/2023 season.
24 Sep 2022
Aussies chasing PGA Tour cards via Korn Ferry Tour Finals
Three of Australia’s brightest talents and one of our most accomplished stars will fight for the right to play on the PGA Tour next year when the Korn Ferry Tour Finals commence on Thursday.
17 Aug 2022
Aussie LIV event to be without local Tour backing
The confirmation that LIV Golf will head to Australia in 2023 by the circuit's recent announcement of an expanded schedule next year has created plenty of headlines and discussion around the world. But Greg Norman and co. will be doing so without any involvement from the PGA Tour of Australasia.
11 Aug 2022
Aussie Tour reaffirms commitment to DP World Tour
Although the disruptive force of LIV Golf might have an Australian at the helm in Greg Norman and a smattering of Aussie contestants, there has yet to be any true local connection to the Invitational Series.
30 Jun 2022
NT PGA signals the end of evolving Aussie Tour season
When the 2021/2022 ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia commenced in December, there were no guarantees that it would play out in its entirety.
4 May 2022
Applications open for PGA Women in Golf Scholarship fund
The PGA of Australia has ramped up its push to attract more women as golf professionals.
19 Apr 2022
Rich Aussie PGA to open DP World Tour season
The Fortinet Australian PGA Championship will be the opening event of the DP World Tour season when it returns to Brisbane later this year.
10 Apr 2022
PGA/WPGA COVID chaos could continue
There will be some involved in golf organisation in this country thanking their lucky Southern Cross stars for Novak Djokovic.
13 Jan 2022
Sutherland using women’s cricket experience for golf
Australian golf's leaders want more female events and more women on professional Tours as they attempt to shed perceptions of the sport being pale, male and stale.
17 Dec 2021
Australian Golf comes together to launch historic National Strategy
It was an historic moment today for Australian Golf as the industry’s milestone national strategy was launched following many months of collaboration and alignment.
15 Dec 2021
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