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Australia’s Adam Scott told the media that when he won the 2004 Players Championship no one in the US knew who he was.

How the major that isn’t one (yet) took Adam Scott from ‘no-name’ to stardom

The annual argument for the Players Championships to be on equal footing with the four existing majors has gone nowhere.

  • Evin Priest

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Lleyton Hewitt and Adam Scott struck up a friendship while both lived in the Bahamas.

Behind the Lleyton Hewitt friendship driving Adam Scott towards his second major win

Two of Australia’s greatest athletes lived in the Bahamas. One was in his prime, the other battling badly.

  • Sam McClure
Marac Leishman tees off at the 2023 Cathedral Invitational.

The country golf course aiming to lure McIlroy and be Australia’s Augusta

The exclusive club north-east of Melbourne already attracts some of the biggest names in Australian golf to its annual invitational. Now, it’s chasing an even bigger profile.

  • Sam McClure
Cam Smith holds his head in his hands after missing the putt on 18.

The putt that sank Cameron Smith – and his Australian Open hopes

Royal Melbourne played host to a dramatic finish to the Australian Open as Cam Smith missed a five-foot putt on the final hole to hand Denmark’s Rasmus Neergard-Peterson a one-shot victory.

  • Sam McClure
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Australian Open as it happened: Great Dane Neergaard-Petersen beats Smith after last-putt heartbreaker

A gutted Cameron Smith has come up agonisingly short in his bid for a coveted maiden Australian Open title as Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen broke home hearts with a last-hole up-and-down for the ages at Royal Melbourne.

  • Iain Payten
Cameron Smith of Australia.

McIlroy’s banana peel slip-up as Australian stars make their charge

The Masters champion heads into the final day at Royal Melbourne trailing Cameron Smith, Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee.

  • Roy Ward, Sam McClure and Scott Spits
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Rory McIlroy’s air swing.

‘I can’t remember the last time I had one’: McIlroy shows he is human with swing and miss

The Northern Irish star had an air swing on the par-five 14th at Royal Melbourne and made bogey, sending waves of fear around the course that he could miss the cut.

  • Sam McClure
Rory McIlroy believed he had limited the damage in the first round of the Australian Open.

Sleep-deprived and battling hay fever: Rory McIlroy’s chaotic Royal Melbourne welcome

McIlroy has survived his first round at Royal Melbourne, amid treacherous conditions.

  • Sam McClure
Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland poses with the Australian Open trophy and greenkeeping staff.

Why international superstar Rory McIlroy’s favourite win was in Australia

Rory McIlroy had an “awful year” in 2013, but a nail-biting battle with Adam Scott turned things around – and sparked his career.

  • Sam McClure
Cameron Smith is much happier that the Australian Open has reverted to its original format.

Golf superstar says Australian Open ‘back on track’ after separating men and women

Australian superstar golfers Cameron Smith and Adam Scott have praised Golf Australia for changing the format of the Australian Open to separate male and female players, with Scott believing it will attract more international stars to the event in the future.

  • Sam McClure