Golf Features

Cleary: The PGA Championship should be the world's major

Cleary: The PGA Championship should be the world's major

If there are to be four major golf championships - and it’s a number that seems to work - then the PGA Championship of the United States should no longer be one of them. The fourth major should belong to the world. 20 May 2024
"Will win": Our experts tip the PGA Championship

"Will win": Our experts tip the PGA Championship

Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka are the three standout favourites ahead of the 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla GC. Yet our experts have found several chances in the 156-man field, including Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark and, er, Eric Cole. Coverage of play begins Thursday 9pm eastern Australia time on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo. 16 May 2024
Tested: Titleist SM10 Vokey Wedges

Tested: Titleist SM10 Vokey Wedges

Titleist have consistently set the standard when it comes to wedges over the years, and the new Vokey SM10s are just as impressive as their predecessors. 16 May 2024
PGA Preview: All Stations to Valhalla

PGA Preview: All Stations to Valhalla

‘Valhalla’ is an old Viking word which translates to “hall of the slain”. 15 May 2024
Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

As critiqued on social media by his excellency, the Great White Shark Greg Norman, the PGA of Australia didn’t use the names ‘LIV Golf’ or ‘Ripper GC’ when congratulating the all-Aussie team that had won back-to-back LIV tournaments in Adelaide and Singapore. 13 May 2024
Opinion: Brooks the man to catch at Valhalla, not Scottie

Opinion: Brooks the man to catch at Valhalla, not Scottie

We are a tick over a week out from the year's second men's major – The PGA Championship at Valhalla Country Club in Kentucky. 8 May 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: Royal Adelaide Golf Club

Top-100 Spotlight: Royal Adelaide Golf Club

Royal Adelaide is one of Australia's finest courses and has been for nearly 100 years. 6 May 2024
CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

As ever, it’s Rocky Balboa who says it best. 6 May 2024
Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Greg Norman has this line when asked about the ‘Framework Agreement’ or ‘merger’, or whatever they call the interminable discussion between the Strategic Sports Group, PGA Tour Inc. and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to decide what ‘golf’ will look like in 2025 and beyond. And it goes, effectively, like this: 29 Apr 2024
Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

We’re at The Grange GC for the LIV league's first teams play-off and the crowds line the 18th fairway 20-deep all the way down its 345 metres. The humanity forms an eddy around the green which spills upwards into the stands and the suites called ‘Club 54’. It's the all-Australian Ripper team taking on the all-South African Stingers. There are people in the trees. 28 Apr 2024
Herbert Smokes 7-under 65; Ripper GC within two of LIV title

Herbert Smokes 7-under 65; Ripper GC within two of LIV title

Lucas Herbert finished round one at LIV Adelaide at The Grange as one of nine players in the 54-man field over-par. In round two on Saturday he smoked eight birdies in a 65 that could've been anything, and had the home team Ripper GC just two shots off the lead. 27 Apr 2024
Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

The big sign at the front gate of The Grange says 'WELCOME' in LIV Golf's recognisable font with aquamarine plumage, and on Friday for day one of the second annual golf-, drink- and music-fest maybe 35,000 fans said don't mind if they do. 26 Apr 2024
Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

The man on talkback radio was adamant: it’s party golf. It’s an exhibition. It isn’t real golf. The punters on Facebook agree: no legacy, no history, no value. And the kicker, uttered without irony, without reading this yarn: nobody cares. 25 Apr 2024
Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

And so to Adelaide for a movie we’ve seen before - call it 'LIV Adelaide II: Return to The Grange' - and we’re straight into a mighty marquee for a Big Cheese Presser, Matt Cleary reports. 24 Apr 2024
Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

LIV Golf’s on this week which means one thing: golf’s version of #CodeWars will heat up again, with punters and pundits shouting opinions into TikTok, or what have you, about whether the PGA Tour or LIV Golf is better, and denigrating the other one to make their point. 22 Apr 2024
Video Lesson: Hit your flop shots stone dead

Video Lesson: Hit your flop shots stone dead

You're faced with a tough up and down ... with very little green to work with between a bunker and the flag. What do you do? 19 Apr 2024
Gabi Ruffels: The 'Unrookie' Rookie

Gabi Ruffels: The 'Unrookie' Rookie

Gabi Ruffels is the LPGA Tour's unrookie Rookie. By rights she should be pretty raw, given it’s only eight years since she started playing golf with any form of commitment and just six years since she enrolled at the University of Southern California on a golf scholarship. But, no, she’s not raw. At all. 18 Apr 2024
Huggan: No fun watching Woods’ painful slide

Huggan: No fun watching Woods’ painful slide

Dead last. Propping up the field. Not even close ... take your pick, or come up with your own description of what we saw from Tiger Woods at this year’s Masters, a tournament the 15-time major champion won five times over the course of his almost peerless career. 15 Apr 2024
Review: Cobram Barooga Golf Club

Review: Cobram Barooga Golf Club

The founding members of Cobram Golf Club could never have envisioned their humble nine-hole sand scrape course would one day expand to become a massive rolling 36-hole complex. 15 Apr 2024
Cleary: The Green Coats, The Stories, The Nirvana of Augusta

Cleary: The Green Coats, The Stories, The Nirvana of Augusta

David Gair Inglis was a man who would introduce himself as “DGI – it stands for Damn Good Ideas”. In 1979 he had a damned good one – a golf tournament called ‘The Australian Masters’, a complete and unashamed rip-off of the Masters at Augusta National in the United States. 15 Apr 2024
Fashion Feature: Adidas Autumn-Winter Fashion Guide

Fashion Feature: Adidas Autumn-Winter Fashion Guide

Here is all the latest and greatest apparel from adidas to keep you looking fresh on the golf course this season. 15 Apr 2024