Author name: GolfOvernight Writer

A six-strong Australian team will head to Dubai in October for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, trying to win the country’s third individual title in four years.

Dubbed the ‘Calgary Cowboy’, Australia’s Richard Green has claimed his first PGA Tour Champions title after birdieing the 18th for a one-shot win in Canada.

Akie Iwai has joined twin sister Chisato as a rookie LPGA Tour champion at Columbia Edgewater, closing with a six-under 66 for a four-stroke victory in The Standard Portland Classic.

When our Deputy Editor Matt Cleary teed it up with Wallaby Andrew Kellaway at Manly Golf Club, he brought a camera, a pair of mates, a bottle (or two) of Pinot Noir and a healthy sense of optimism. By the short par-four ninth, it was clear: Kellaway has game – and stories to match. From albatross attempts to golf with Grandma, this is rugby’s globe-trotting winger in full swing, chasing birdies and better banter.

Australia has confirmed its representatives for two major international amateur golf events to be contested in the months ahead.

Scottie Scheffler has erased a four-shot deficit in five holes and then delivered a haymaker on the daunting par-3 17th by chipping in from 82 feet for birdie that carried him to victory in the BMW Championship.

Spaniard Jon Rahm has been crowned LIV Golf’s season points champion again, despite losing the playoff in Indianapolis and not winning an event all year.

English golfer Marco Penge tapped in for a birdie at the 18th hole to win the Danish Golf Championship by a stroke from Rasmus Hojgaard, who missed a chance to climb into the automatic qualifying positions for Europe’s Ryder Cup team.

Queenslander Cory Crawford has delivered one of the rounds of the day to surge to a second Kumul Minerals PNG Open title at Royal Port Moresby Golf Club.

Footage of a plane crash-landing on Mona Vale GC on Sydney’s northern beaches has gone viral around the world. Witnesses reported a loud bang before the 1967 Piper Cherokee began its dramatic descent with apparent engine trouble. Two men in their 50s – an instructor and a trainee pilot – suffered abrasions and were treated by paramedics at the scene adjacent the 15th green.

Australian Grace Kim has holed out from 143 metres for an improbable eagle to improve to outright second with one round to play at the LPGA Tour’s Standard Portland Classic.

Dustin Johnson has reeled in Columbian Sebastian Munoz to set up a big final day at the LIV Golf tournament in Indianapolis.