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Matt Jones celebration in winning the Australian Open could be soured later next month should he miss out on an invitation into next year’s Masters at Augusta National. Jones victory at the Australian Club in Sydney has seen him jump 30 places to the new World No. 51. However it just one place, and just  0.0142 of a World Ranking point shy from earning an automatic exemption into the New Year’s traditional first Major by ending the year inside the top-50. The 35-year olf Arizona-based ...

It was an historic occasion on the eve of the final round of the 100th Australian Open at the annual Association of Golf Writers Australia (AGWA) Annual Dinner. Present at the dinner held at the Bonnie Doon Golf Club was four Australian-born Major Champions – Five time Open winner Peter Thomson, double Major winning David Graham, 1991 Open winner Ian Baker-Finch and 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy. However in a first it was the first occasion the now Texas-based Graham and Ogilvy were together ...

For a first time in his career Sydney-born Matt Jones has commanded the sports headlines in the city where he grew up. Jones captured only a second tournament since turning pro in denying World No.1 and defending champion Jordan Spieth to win the Australian Open. Headlines of ‘No Stopping The Jones Boy’ greeted readers of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph while the Sydney Morning Herald chose the strange headline ‘It was Cement To Be’. Jones grew-up around a 20-minute drive ...

European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke ruled out concern of ‘meltdown’ as he continues a whirlwind two month, eight nation and three continent golfing crusade this week in Vietnam Clarke jetted out of Sydney this morning local time (MON) bound for the inaugural Ho Tram Open ahead of also teeing-up in next week’s Asian Tour season-finale Thailand Masters outside of Bangkok. Clarke had been mobbed at every turn by autograph and ‘selfie’ hunters at the completion of his Australian ...

The Australian-born trio of new Australian Open champion Matt Jones along with Rod Pampling and Nick Cullen qualified for the 145TH Open at Royal Troon after today’s final round of the Emirates Australian Open in Sydney. “It’s one Major I would love to win, it’s one Major that I think suits my golf game the best. I’m absolutely ecstatic to get back to The Open,” said Jones after being handed the gleaming Stonehaven Trophy. In the first event of The Open Qualifying Series, the ...

Matt Jones has followed in the footsteps of boyhood idol and fellow Australian Greg Norman to claim victory in the Australian Open in Sydney. Jones, 35 fought back from a horror start to his final round by dropping three shots in his opening two holes and also taking a triple boyey at the ninth on the Australian Club course. The local Oyster Bay born Jones, who had been a junior member at the Australian Club, managed to find some pearly form to record a final round two over par 73 and win by a shot ...

World No. 1 Jordan Spieth brilliantly kept alive a successful defence of his title with a penultimate hole eagle on day three of the Australian Open in Sydney. Spieth is seeking to join legendary Jack Nicklaus and fellow Grand Slam champion Gary Player as the only non-Australian born players to win back-to-back Australian Open titles and in the 100th staging of the event. And the 22-year Texas kept that dream alive holing a 165 metre 8-iron second shot at the 399-metre par four 17th hole in an eventual ...