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LIV CEO Scott O’Neil has described as ‘encouraging’ his talks with the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) body as encouraging. This comes after the recent LIV annoucement that from next year all LIV events will change from 54 holes to 72 holes and thus fall in line with those major men’s tournaments played around the world. It will be a move that LIV will no doubt be hoping will have the OWGR body to allocated World Ranking points to its players and tournaments. “We ...

Colin Montgomerie could hardly contain his excitement, laughing while declaring his Team Europe triumph in the World Champions Club in Florida was as good as a few months when the European Ryder Cup team retained the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Park. Despite the wet conditions in Clearwater Florida, Monty was as near as joyful all of 15-years ago when he proudly led his European Ryder Cup team to a memorable success at Celtic Manor Resort in Wales. Yes, there was not the crowds nor the noise that was ...

Hideki Matsuyama has superbly ended his season with a 21st career success and some 11 months after he got his year underway with his 20th tournament victory. Matsuyama, 33, captured his first event of 2025 at January’s The Sentry and now 25 tournaments later the Japanese golfer has succeeded in securing a second success in his final event of the year at the Hero World Challenge. Matsuyama again wearing his bright yellow favourite last round shirt had brilliantly put himself in contention for ...

  “Hey Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open?”  “Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open”. The words from Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley sharing his emotions with Aussie golfing great Greg Norman soon after capturing the 1991 Australian Open at Royal Melbourne. As we head into the final round of the first Australian Open at Royal Melbourne since all those many years ago, the memories from that December 1st, 1991 continue to be among the fondest in my reporting on ...

Gil Hanse continues to stamp his growing presence as one of the leaders in golf course design work and even moreso with the latest news his services have been retained by Scotland’s famed North Berwick course. The story of Gil’s newest golf course assignment appears on Golf Course Architecture website and you can read all the news by clicking on: www.golfcoursearchitecture.net   We learnt also just a week ago with TGL (TMRW Golf League) announcing Hanse has joined the league’s ...

How many New Zealand-born golfers in the prior 107 times hosting of the Crown Australian Open  have won Australia’s leading championship? It’s a question I should know the answer but after checking the records of the championship it came as big surprise to learn a golfer from Australia’s nearest neighbour has not been handed the Stonehave trophy. Indeed there has been just one Kiwi runner-up and that being John Lister in 1977 who ended in a three-way tie for second behind Aussie ...

Grand Slam winning Rory McIlroy revealed he battled hay fever and dizziness early in his bogey-laden opening round at the Crown Australian Open in Melbourne. McIlroy’s on-course showing was as though Royal Melbourne was biting back after McIlroy’s pre tournament comments when suggesting Ausralia’s continually rated No. 1 course was not in his view the best in the country. Nonetheless a full house crowd was on the tee from as early as 7am eagerly anticipating McIlroy’s arrival ...