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The Aussies at the U.S Women’s Open
Say her name: U.S Women's Open tip is in
Cleary: our mate Digs and a jock called Pikey
Cleary: PGA's a bludger of a major, and two-time major champion can't change my mind
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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
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 written by Garrett Johnston.
14 May 2025
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rory the winner, but Augusta the undefeated champion of the 89th Masters
The Masters has been run and won, and the great Rory McIlroy has fulfilled his destiny, despite being hunted down like a bloodied fox by the great hounds of our sport, Justin Rose, Ludvig Aberg, the ever-compelling Bryson DeChambeau, who thrilled us with sublime and ridiculous golf on a course we would sell a kidney to play. Augusta National remains golf's great muse. Augusta National is the champion forever.
14 Apr 2025
Huggan: Before too long, Augusta’s mildly amusing rules gravitate to irritating
Especially for the millions of golf fans around the world who have never been fortunate enough to attend a Masters Tournament, this column has the potential to sound a bit weird, but here goes.
10 Apr 2025
Tips are in! Experts predict Masters winners, long-shots and no-hopers
Our eclectic stable of experts this year sports a halfback for the Sydney Roosters, a two-time winner on the Korn Ferry Tour, and the usual coterie of golf media figures, including one who's tipped a former champion to win, to surprise, and to go home in disgrace.
10 Apr 2025
Morikawa primed to pounce at the majors again
It happens in sports all over the globe.
9 Apr 2025
C'mon, Aussies: the local hopes to get Australia out of bed Monday morning
It’s been 12 years since Adam Scott drained that mighty 25-footer to birdie the second play-off hole of the 2013 Masters; 12 years since we raised the rooves of living rooms and golf clubs around the land; 12 years since the greatest excuse for breakfast beers since Bob Hawke gave everyone the day off in 1983.
9 Apr 2025
Health and head space keys to McIlroy's Masters
After being cut off at the knees when Jay Monahan quite surprisingly went on television with the head of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to announce what was perceived then to be a “merger” between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, Rory McIlroy quit his role as the establishment’s pseudo-spokesman in the great pro golf imbroglio of our times. And it’s looked like the outlook has agreed with him since. The man looks like he’s free.
9 Apr 2025
Review: Bonville Golf Resort
For more than three decades, the dramatic, densely treed and visually breathtaking landscape that is home to the Bonville Golf Resort has drawn observational comparisons with the iconic Augusta National Golf Club, where the 89th Masters Tournament will be played this week.
8 Apr 2025
Ogilvy: The one time I played well enough at Augusta to actually win
“Eight times” is the response I give to a question I’m often asked: how many times did you play in the Masters? I wish it was more often, because I always felt the Augusta National course and my game were a pretty good fit.
8 Apr 2025
Hits and memories of Rory at Augusta
He’s missed the cut (three times), he’s led after three rounds, he’s notched four top-5s and eight top-10s. There were years he was never really in it, others when he most certainly was. And there were years when you thought – surely, this time – Rory McIlroy will up and win the first major championship of the year, The Masters, at venerable Augusta National in Georgia.
8 Apr 2025
Cleary: Horror movie, right there on my TV: Greg Norman's Masters of 1996
The Masters at Augusta National is special because the course can tell stories. Glorious ones, compelling ones. There's been happiness, hubris and horror shows. And then there is Greg Norman in 1996, which nearly 30 years on remains borderline unwatchable.
7 Apr 2025
Head, heart and elbow, it's Rory's Masters
I want it to be Rory. Chances are you want it to be Rory. And the editor of this crackerjack journal would like it to be Rory, given he’s splashed the man all over the cover and throughout the pages of our glossy bit of kit which is still a bargain at $9.08 per month at all respected subscription services.
7 Apr 2025
Stableford is great. But match-play against the hole? That's a top fun format
Stableford competition rules at Australian golf clubs and it's maybe fair enough; it takes less time and is lots more enjoyable than stroke-play, and nobody complains about it. But there's a format under our nose that one could describe as "match-play against an implacable, nerveless opponent" that should have more precedence, as Matt Cleary argues here.
31 Mar 2025
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