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McIlroy confirmed to headline the 2025 and 2026 Australian Open
Five-time major champion, and career grand slam winner, Rory McIlroy will headline the men’s Australian Open for the next two years, including when it returns to The Royal Melbourne Golf Club on the Melbourne Sandbelt in 2025.
14 May 2025
PGA Personal Lesson: Six-Ball Putting Drill To Hone Feel For Speed
Tom Corker, Head of Instruction at Kingston Heath, demonstrates this very nice distance control putting drill to practise at any time, but particularly before your round or if you’re playing a golf course that’s unfamiliar.
12 Feb 2025
Kingston Heath, Jiyai Shin, and the shot from Neptune's moon
The last group of the 2024 Australian Women’s Open sported three major champions and promised a three-horse war. Yet it was blown open early when Jiyai Shin conjured a shot from the stars.
1 Dec 2024
Final Round Tee-Times - Women's Australian Open
The shoot-out is on at Kingston Heath on championship Sunday of this women's Australian Open, as Korean star Jiyai Shin goes head-to-head with Aussie superstar Hannah Green and reigning two-time Australian Open champion Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa. Strap yourself in and ...
30 Nov 2024
Final Round Tee-Times - Men's Australian Open
The Australian Open men's tee-times are in and the winner could come from most anywhere. Lucas Herbert (-14), American Ryggs Johnston (-14) and 2023 Asia-Pacific Amateur Champion, Jasper Stubbs (-12), will share top billing in the final group. The 2024 APA champion Wenyi Ding (-12) will be in the penultimate group with PGA Champion Elvis Smylie (-12) and Oliver Lindell (-12) of Finland, while something of a super-group is behind them, with Marc Leishman (-11), Harrison Crowe (-11) and defending champion Joaquin Niemann (-12) all very much in touch.
30 Nov 2024
Column: You never tire of watching excellence in the flesh
On a bleak Melbourne afternoon, your resident writer saw a gap in the torrential downpour attempting to drown a resilient Kingston Heath on moving day at the Australian Open.
30 Nov 2024
In pursuit of a dream, Smith has one of those rounds
Matt Cleary followed Cameron Smith in round three of the Australian Open at Kingston Heath and empathised with his golf game more than he'd like.
30 Nov 2024
Video Lesson: Sweep the floor when chipping on tight lies
This drill, demonstrated and explained here by PGA professional and Director of Instruction at Kingston Heath, Tom Corker, will teach you to use the sole of the club to make solid contact with the ball – without necessarily striking it first.
30 Nov 2024
Happy Herbert savouring his stand-out golf year
Already feeling satisfied after a stellar year, an upbeat Lucas Herbert is positioned to cap 2024 with his first Australian Open golf crown after storming to a commanding halfway lead.
29 Nov 2024
Niemann shakes off day one blues to fire in Melbourne
Defending Australian Open champion Joaquin Niemann had a day to forget on Thursday of the Australian Open but rewrote those wrongs with a phenomenal Friday display, carding a five-under-par 66 at Victoria Golf Club this morning.
29 Nov 2024
Fortune favours the bold in wild Friday at Australian Open
It was all happening, everywhere, all at once, in a wild round two of the Australian Open, as our man on the ground, Matt Cleary, reports.
29 Nov 2024
Belonging in the big moments: Corey Lamb
There is a quiet confidence about Corey Lamb.
28 Nov 2024
Sandbelt softness upsets purists but fans thrilled by shot-making
Cameron Smith did not, as they say, miss 'em, in his critique of the softness of the greens for this year's Australian Open, and legions on Sandbelt purists could but nod along. Yet the crowds were out with the sun at Kingston Heath and Victoria, and they were thrilled by world class shot-making.
28 Nov 2024
Min Woo's knee woes hamper Open golf preparation
Min Woo Lee admits he won't be at his best at the Australian Open this week in Melbourne, still troubled by his freakish knee dislocation.
27 Nov 2024
Australian Open - Women's Round One Tee-Times
Australian Open - women's round one tee-times
27 Nov 2024
Australian Open - Men's Round One Tee-Times
Round one tee-times for the men's Australian Open at Victoria and Kingston Heath
27 Nov 2024
Higgs vows to keep shirt on at Kingston Heath; but hole-in-one at 15 may test resolve
Harry Higgs has vowed to keep his shirt on at this Australian Open, even if he wins a BMW on Kingston Heath's famous par-3 15th, a hole he rates as “one of the coolest I’ve ever seen”.
27 Nov 2024
Playing From The Tips Ep.91: Aussie Open & International Series Qatar
Australia once again takes centre stage in the golf world as our most important national championships head to Melbourne’s famed Sandbelt for what promises to be an enthralling ISPS HANDA Australian Open.
26 Nov 2024
Min Woo Lee set to challenge for Australian Open
After nearly securing an historic Australian double last year, Min Woo Lee has today confirmed that he will tee it up at the 2024 ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Melbourne as he chases his first Stonehaven Cup.
20 Aug 2024
Australian Open returns to the Melbourne Sandbelt
The ISPS HANDA Australian Open will return to the famed Melbourne Sandbelt in 2024, Golf Australia announced today.
4 Jul 2024
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2024
Ranking golf courses, not unlike critiquing movies or restaurants, is far from being an exact science.
24 Jan 2024
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