The ‘other’ event this week, the Nedbank is still a great tournament in its own right and is colloquially known as ‘Africa’s major.’ Starting out as an extremely small field invitational, the Nedbank joined the DPWT in 2013 and increased in size to a 30 man field, and then again to the current field size of around 66 in 2016. It has at times been a part of the DPWT finals series and elevated Rolex series but has only been a regular DPWT event since last year, albeit still wit

BOOOOOTS. It’s Australian Open week at Royal Melbourne and that means there will be boots on the ground as I plan to attend on what is a sold out Sunday to see star attraction Rory McIlroy. But the other star attraction is the golf course itself. Royal Melbourne is a 36-hole facility, with the West course ranking up at number 7 in the latest Golf.com rankings, and the East course at 82. These courses span across four parcels of land, but the Australian Open will be played on

Course Breakdown As the PGA Tour season ends, the DPWT begins their new season down under with the Australian PGA. Royal Queensland is hosting for the fifth consecutive time, and the fourth time as part of the DPWT (the January 2022 Aus PGA was also played here). Queensland is the Florida of Australia, and in keeping with that this is a very flat, parkland, Bermuda (called Couch grass in Aus) golf course that runs along the river. As part of a major redesign nearly two decade