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Sagstrom ends 5-year drought with LPGA Match Play title

Sagstrom ends 5-year drought with LPGA Match Play title

Madelene Sagstrom has ended a five-year LPGA Tour victory drought, overcoming the loss of a four-hole lead in a 1-up victory over Lauren Coughlin in the Match Play final. 7 Apr 2025
Naveed upsets Ko in Aussie sweep at LPGA's Match Play

Naveed upsets Ko in Aussie sweep at LPGA's Match Play

Hira Naveed has burst from the shadows of fellow West Australian Minjee Lee to lead an Aussie sweep at the LPGA Tour's big-money Match Play event in Las Vegas. 3 Apr 2025
Playing From The Tips Ep.106: Texas Open, LIV Miami & LPGA Match Play

Playing From The Tips Ep.106: Texas Open, LIV Miami & LPGA Match Play

All eyes are firmly on the first men’s major of the year at Augusta next week, but there is tournament golf to be played first. 1 Apr 2025
Spectacular Nelly wins fourth-straight LPGA Tour start

Spectacular Nelly wins fourth-straight LPGA Tour start

Nelly Korda is on a roll not seen on the LPGA Tour in 16 years. 8 Apr 2024
Playing From The Tips Ep.56: Texas Open, LIV, Bonville, Match Play & ANWA

Playing From The Tips Ep.56: Texas Open, LIV, Bonville, Match Play & ANWA

From Florida and Vegas to Texas and Coffs Harbour, with a little bit of Augusta thrown in, it seems the sun never sets on men’s and women’s professional golf, or the amateur game. 2 Apr 2024
NSW Amateur heads to Belmont & Pacific Dunes

NSW Amateur heads to Belmont & Pacific Dunes

Around 250 of the country’s top amateur golfers compete with players from across the South Pacific, Asia, North America, and the United Kingdom as the 2024 NSW Amateur Championship begins at Belmont and Pacific Dunes Gold Clubs in Newcastle tomorrow. 29 Jan 2024
Mountcastle masters match play to win Gippsland Super 6

Mountcastle masters match play to win Gippsland Super 6

Twenty-four hours after his place in the tournament was in jeopardy, New Zealand’s Kerry Mountcastle broke through for his first win on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia at the Gippsland Super 6. 13 Nov 2023
Morri: Let's give the World No.1 a headstart ... brilliant!

Morri: Let's give the World No.1 a headstart ... brilliant!

The handicapped Tour Championship is a stupid idea. 21 Aug 2023
Aussie Peirce through to U.S Women’s Amateur Round of 32

Aussie Peirce through to U.S Women’s Amateur Round of 32

South Australian Caitlin Peirce was the lone Australian to make it through to the match play section of the U.S Women’s Amateur after rounds of 72-71 to scrape through in joint 45th. 10 Aug 2023
Local hope Sets Scoring Record at U.S Women’s Amateur

Local hope Sets Scoring Record at U.S Women’s Amateur

Aspiring stars flock to Los Angeles from all over the world in their quest for glory. Briana Chacon only had to travel 30 miles. 9 Aug 2023
Pine Valley to host 2034 Curtis Cup

Pine Valley to host 2034 Curtis Cup

Pine Valley Golf Club, will host the 2034 Curtis Cup, the United States Golf Association announced. The venerable golf club has previously hosted the 1936 and 1985 Walker Cup. 6 Jul 2023
Aussies out as Amateur Championship Quarterfinalists set

Aussies out as Amateur Championship Quarterfinalists set

Ireland’s Alex Maguire reached the quarter-finals of The 128th Amateur Championship at Hillside after a thrilling victory at the 23rd hole against Daniel Rodrigues from Portugal. 23 Jun 2023
Aussies Greer and Stubbs to face off at Amateur Championship

Aussies Greer and Stubbs to face off at Amateur Championship

Australia’s hopes remain alive of claiming The Amateur Championship at Hillside, but after the Round of 32, those hopes will rest with one man. 22 Jun 2023
Three Aussies through to The Amateur match play

Three Aussies through to The Amateur match play

There were 14 Australians among the 288 strokeplay competitors for The Amateur Championship at Hillside and Southport & Ainsdale. Three of our charges advancing to the match play section after the field was cut to the top-64 and ties. 21 Jun 2023
Peirce and Wong reach round of 32 at Women’s Amateur

Peirce and Wong reach round of 32 at Women’s Amateur

As a group, it wasn’t the day the Australians were hoping for at The Women’s Amateur Championship at Prince’s, but hopes remain alive in the form of Caitlin Peirce and Jeneath Wong. 16 Jun 2023
All five Aussies advance to Women's Amateur match play

All five Aussies advance to Women's Amateur match play

After 36-holes of strokeplay, all five Australians teeing it up in The Women’s Amateur Championship at Prince’s in England have advanced to the match play portion of the storied event. 15 Jun 2023
Anannarukarn triumphs at LPGA Match Play

Anannarukarn triumphs at LPGA Match Play

Pajaree Anannarukarn has capped off the longest week on the LPGA Tour with a 3&1 victory to win the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play over Ayaka Furue. 29 May 2023
Morri: Great golfers still come in all shapes and sizes

Morri: Great golfers still come in all shapes and sizes

We see less of it in the modern men’s game than we used to but what a joy it was to watch the diminutive Ayaka Furue make the final of the LPGA’s matchplay tournament at the weekend. 29 May 2023
Aussies suffer losses as 10 still unbeaten at LPGA match play

Aussies suffer losses as 10 still unbeaten at LPGA match play

Ten players, including third-seeded Frenchwoman Celine Boutier, have earned a second consecutive group-stage victory at the Bank of Hope LPGA match play in North Las Vegas. 26 May 2023
Playing From The Tips Ep.15: Colonial, LIV DC, LPGA Match Play and KLM Open

Playing From The Tips Ep.15: Colonial, LIV DC, LPGA Match Play and KLM Open

What a week at Oak Hill and a spectacular victory for Brooks Koepka at the 105th PGA. 23 May 2023
Opinion: More reasons than ever for a globe-trotting PGA

Opinion: More reasons than ever for a globe-trotting PGA

It has often been said, and written about before (including by this columnist), but arguably this year is proving the strongest case to take the PGA Championship beyond the borders of the United States. 17 May 2023