Tour News

A massive hit in the US, a “Thunderdome” version of mini-golf is coming to Australian TV screens with Greg Norman on board.

Greg Norman has been announced as one of the hosts of Australia’s version of the US hit TV show Mega Mini Golf.

Titled Holey Moley in Australia, Norman will appear in every episode as “resident golf pro” – a role performed by Steph Curry in the US version of the show.

After the huge downpour of rain that hit Australia’s east coast in the last week, golf courses are among some of the community spaces currently mopping up.

The weather system that brought torrential rains and drenched large parts of New South Wales and Queensland over the weekend, saw some places receive more than 200mm of rain.

Royal Adelaide Golf Club is host to the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open this week and you can catch it live on the ABC from 3pm Thursday (AEDT).

A stellar field including defending champion Nelly Korda, Minjee Lee, Karrie Webb, Hannah Green, Jeongeun Lee6, Inbee Park and So Yeon Ryu will tee it up at Royal Adelaide for a share of the US$1.3million

Several members of Bonnie Doon Golf Club show us how to fix that divot, rake that bunker and fix that plug mark.

Bonnie Doon Golf Club and rkimage have teamed up with club member and rugby league commentator Warren Smith to make this fun short video to assist with on-course etiquette.

Men and women play the golf courses at 13th Beach together this week as the Vic Open tees off for 2020.

Golfers have converged on 13th Beach Golf Links this week ahead of the 2020 ISPS Handa Vic Open. Co-sanctioned with the European Tour and the Ladies European Tour, the unique tournament features both men and women playing in concurrent golf tournaments.

Check out this fabulous piece from Rod Morri in Golf Australia Magazine encouraging golfers to play a role in helping struggling communities affected by the recent bushfires.

Morri urges all golfers get out and play golf in communities severely affected by the bushfires to help boost the local economies, and perhaps more importantly, boost local morale.

The concept of a world golf tour has resurfaced, this time in the form of a proposed Premier Golf League.

We thought we would wait until something concrete materialised regarding the rumours of a new world golf tour. But as yet nothing like that exists.

But something is going on with recent comments seeming to confirm the rumours from several tour pros and player agents.

The Women’s Australian Open tees off at Royal Adelaide next week with 15 former major champions in the field.

Media release courtesy of Australian Golf Media

Fifteen major champions. That’s the number that depicts the strength of the field for the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open at Royal Adelaide Golf Club in February.