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Review: The Australian Golf Club

Review: The Australian Golf Club

The course today looks nothing like its original 1905 layout, but has been widely accepted as a fine tournament venue and remains ranked among Australia’s best courses. It is arguably the best-conditioned course in the country. 19 Nov 2024
Australian Open could depart NSW despite huge success

Australian Open could depart NSW despite huge success

Huge TV ratings have turned up the heat on the NSW government stumping up the money to keep the Australian Open golf championships in Sydney. 7 Dec 2023
Morri: Great golf for all

Morri: Great golf for all

There will be a time and place to continue the debate about the merits of the mixed format of the Australian Opens. But now is not that time. 4 Dec 2023
Winner's Bag: Joaquin Niemann – ISPS HANDA Australian Open

Winner's Bag: Joaquin Niemann – ISPS HANDA Australian Open

On a dramatic final day of the ISPS HANDA Australian Open, Joaquin Niemann eventually emerged victorious following extra holes. Here is what the first Chilean to lift the Stonehaven Cup had in the bag. 4 Dec 2023
Market mover: Why Michael Block's been worth the freight

Market mover: Why Michael Block's been worth the freight

Michael Block - let’s get this out of the way from the get-go – is no mug. A journeyman? Perhaps. A battler? On occasion, for sure. But a competitive, professional golfer? You bloody bet. Golf Australia did - and came up trumps. 1 Dec 2023
Home course hero Kyriacou fires at Open

Home course hero Kyriacou fires at Open

If Steph Kyriacou looked like she was playing in her own backyard while carving out a fine four-under-par first round at the Australian Open, it's because she virtually was. 30 Nov 2023
All the right moves: Why Cam's back like he never went away

All the right moves: Why Cam's back like he never went away

Outside of surfing, when the sport’s best professionals will warm-up for a world series event by tooling about with locals at their home break, golf’s pro-am is a singular beast. 29 Nov 2023
Star siblings successive Open starts

Star siblings successive Open starts

Minjee and Min Woo Lee can keep close tabs on each other's progress after officials grouped the siblings one tee-time apart for the opening two rounds of the Australian Open starting Thursday. 29 Nov 2023
Playing From The Tips Ep.42: Aussie Open & Tiger's return

Playing From The Tips Ep.42: Aussie Open & Tiger's return

Tiger Woods is coming back at his own tournament in the Bahamas. but most of the golf world’s attention will be firmly fixed on Sydney and the Australian Open. 28 Nov 2023
Michael Block commits to Australian Open

Michael Block commits to Australian Open

After becoming one of the biggest stories in golf in 2023, Michael Block has today been confirmed as part of the field for the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Sydney, beginning November 30. 27 Oct 2023
More stars confirm Australian Open starts

More stars confirm Australian Open starts

Sydney’s Grace Kim was confirmed today as a starter at the ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Sydney alongside former World No.1 and 2013 champion Jiyai Shin of Korea. 26 Oct 2023
Cam Davis locks in Summer of Golf’s Aussie majors

Cam Davis locks in Summer of Golf’s Aussie majors

Rising star of Australian golf, Cam Davis, has locked in both of his country’s majors – the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship in Brisbane and ISPS HANDA Australian Open in Sydney – to his end-of-year schedule. 6 Oct 2023
Local Legend: Sylvia Donohoe

Local Legend: Sylvia Donohoe

When you walk into the member’s lounge at Narooma Golf Club on New South Wales’ far south coast, you’re stepping foot into the Sylvia Donohoe room – named after the club’s most decorated champion and local legend. 13 Sep 2023
Aussie Open hopeful of Cam, Scott, Day returning

Aussie Open hopeful of Cam, Scott, Day returning

Officials are confident of having heavyweights Cam Smith, Jason Day, and Adam Scott teeing off in the Australian Open for the first time in a decade. 28 Jul 2023
Australian Open dates, venue and format tweaks confirmed

Australian Open dates, venue and format tweaks confirmed

The ISPS HANDA Australian Open is returning to Sydney with The Australian and The Lakes golf clubs set to host the prestigious tournament from Thursday, November 30 to Sunday, December 3. 31 May 2023
Norman: ‘We have no interest in sitting down with them’

Norman: ‘We have no interest in sitting down with them’

LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman says he is no longer prepared to negotiate with the PGA Tour and rejected the Saudi-funded series as being a "breakaway" league. 16 Sep 2022
Australian Open and PGA postponed until 2022

Australian Open and PGA postponed until 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic, the need to ensure public safety and concerns over quarantine requirements have forced the postponement of the nation’s most prestigious golf tournaments, the Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship, until early-2022 3 Sep 2021
Morri: The misinformed attack on public golf

Morri: The misinformed attack on public golf

It’s tiring – and frankly tiresome – to constantly argue about public golf with people who are not only completely uninformed about the game but apparently wilfully ignorant. 22 Feb 2021
Ranking: Best NSW & ACT Courses

Ranking: Best NSW & ACT Courses

We continue our celebration of this country's best places to play the game by showcasing the finest layouts in New South Wales and the ACT. 3 Jun 2020
Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2019, as voted by you

Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2019, as voted by you

What makes a golf course find its way onto your list of favourites? Is it the pristine condition it is generally presented in, or are you besotted by quality design that forces you to think your way across the journey? 27 Nov 2019
2019 Emirates Australian Open dates announced

2019 Emirates Australian Open dates announced

The 2019 Emirates Australian Open will be played in the week preceding the Presidents Cup. 13 Nov 2018