Defending champions New South Wales will face off against a powerhouse Victorian team in a mouth-watering opening-round match-up of the Australian Interstate Teams Matches starting on Monday at Southport Golf Club. The best men and women amateur golfers from across the country will converge on the Gold Coast for three days to contest the most prestigious teams event in Australian amateur golf. Each state is brimming with exceptional talent, many of whom have already made a mark in professional tournaments on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia. The format w ..read more

[PHOTO: Andrew Redington] When Nelly Korda won her fifth LPGA event in as many starts, she entered a space only two other LPGA players have ever occupied. In 1978, during her rookie season, Nancy Lopez won five tournaments in a row. Then in 2004-2005, Annika Sorenstam did it. And now, Korda will forever be mentioned in the same sentence as Lopez and Sorenstam, two of the greatest players in the history of golf. Both Lopez and Sorenstam remember what it was like to be the biggest stories on the LPGA and have advice for Korda as she navigates these barely charted waters. “I always felt pressure ..read more

[PHOTO: Harry How/Getty Images] Hannah Green has displaced Minjee Lee as Australia’s top-ranked female player and jumped into the top 10 in the world for the first time. Green’s victory in Los Angeles last weekend, her second win of the LPGA Tour season, saw her jump from 18th to No.8 in the world ranking. Lee, who has been ranked as high as No.2 in the world, fell to ninth after missing the cut in LA, her second consecutive missed cut. She has been the top-ranked Aussie for all but one week – in 2021 – in the past nine years. Hannah Green wins back-to-back in LA For the 27-year-old Green ..read more

[PHOTO: Harry How/Getty Images] Perth’s Hannah Green has produced a ball-striking masterclass to successfully defend the JM Eagle LA Championship in Los Angeles for her fifth LPGA title. Green fired a closing five-under 66 to win by three strokes from Sweden’s Maja Stark at Wilshire Country Club for the most convincing win of her career, which saw her collect the $US562,500 winner’s prizemoney. Sydneysider Grace Kim, who shared the 54-hole lead with her compatriot, faded with a six-over 77 to tie for 25th. It was Green’s second triumph this year, coming eight weeks after she holed a dramatic ..read more

[PHOTO: Harry How/Getty Images] Perth’s Hannah Green is primed to defend the JM Eagle LA Championship, but her greatest threat is Sydneysider Grace Kim [pictured] with whom she shares the 54-hole lead in Los Angeles. The pair are seven-under 206 and one stroke ahead of Germany’s Ester Henseleit, Swede Maja Stark and Korea’s Jin Hee Im who rocketed up the leaderboard with the day’s low round of 63 in windy conditions. Queensland’s Karis Davidson is three-under, four strokes behind in a tie for 10th. NSW’s Sarah Kemp is five behind and tied for 15th. The treelined Wilshire Country Club layout h ..read more

You didn’t need to see the opulent practice facility and hyper-manicured turf to know players at the Masters operate on a different plane of reality than the rest of professional golf. But a social media post by Ladies European Tour player Hannah Gregg drove that point home, at least financially. Gregg laid out her expenses for the week at the recent Women’s New South Wales Open, and they painted a striking picture of how hard it is to make a living for the vast majority of professional players – male or female. https://twitter.com/hannahbggg/status/1783862107886526908 Her total expenses for ..read more

Classic golf-course architecture is growing its foothold on women’s major championships You are forgiven if you see the following three courses and think it’s the itinerary of a cracking golf trip organised by a bunch of architecture enthusiasts: Sahalee Country Club in Washington state, Lancaster Country Club in Pennsylvania and the Old Course at St Andrews. It’s not a golf trip, though. They’re three of the five courses staging LPGA majors in 2024. That’s some list if you’re into great golf courses. While the Chevron Championship, the first women’s major of the year, has already been held a ..read more

[PHOTO: Gregory Shamus] Saying she is “exhausted” after completing a record-tying run of five victories in as many starts on the LPGA with her major win in the Chevron Championship, Nelly Korda posted on social media overnight that she has withdrawn from this week’s JM Eagle LA Championship at Wilshire Country Club in southern California. “It was not an easy decision,” Korda wrote. “After the unbelievable week at the Chevron grinding through the mental and physical challenges of four events in the past five weeks, I am definitely feeling exhausted. With so much still to come throughout 22024 ..read more

[PHOTO: Andy Lyons] With a leap and a splash, Nelly Korda cemented one of the great runs in LPGA history. After winning the Chevron Championship today with a final-round 69, she continued the tradition of jumping into the pond next to the Country Club of Carlton Woods’ 18th green. Korda’s two-stroke victory over Maja Stark makes her one of three in LPGA history to win five straight starts, joining Hall of Famers Nancy Lopez (1978) and Annika Sorenstam (2004-2005). “It’s an amazing feeling because all the hard work and the doubt that I had in my head from 2021,” said Korda, who shot 13-under-p ..read more

[PHOTO: Andy Lyons] It wasn’t easy but Nelly Korda continued her historic win streak, grabbing her second major title at the Chevron Championship. Her third consecutive 69 to go with a first-round 68 gave her a two-shot margin over Maja Stark. The win was Korda’s fifth straight becoming the third player in LPGA history to achieve that feat. She’s also the first American to win five times in a season since 1999. World No.1 Korda and world No.1 Scottie Scheffler are the second pair of world No.1s to win majors in consecutive weeks since the inception of the Rolex Rankings in 2006. Korda’s drive ..read more