Women’s Golf Australia Spring 2024

Our golf travel section looks spectacular! In this issue, we take you to COMO Laucala, a private island in Fiji for a luxury golf getaway, Cape Wickham Links on King Island in Tasmania and to Hamilton Island Golf Club in the Whitsundays. Choose to visit any of these amazing golfing destinations and you’ll certainly be the envy of friends and family. PGA Pro, Justin Rose, made time to talk with Women’s Golf magazine about the Rose Ladies Series which is quite the scoop. Justin and his wife, Kate are the founders of these popular UK events and are huge supporters of women’s golf. Flip to page 16 to read this exclusive story. Have you seen any of the Entitled Housewife clips/videos online? If not, check them out immediately for a…

I hope you have enjoyed watching all the action from the Women’s Major Championships and the Paris Olympic Golf events over the past few months. We have had some super exciting finishes with some great champions from across the globe emerging victorious, none more so than New Zealand’s Lydia Ko with her gold medal performance at the Olympics, followed closely by her stunning victory in the AIG Women’s Open. I first played golf with Lyds back in 2012, the year before I retired from playing professional golf. She was just 14 years old at the time and I had heard on the grapevine that she was a gun, a potential superstar in the making. It was the third round of the Bing Lee Women’s NSW Open at Oatlands Golf Club…

RICK WOELFE – WOMEN’S GOLF CORRESPONDENT Rick has covered golf and other sports for print, broadcast, and digital outlets for over 3 decades. Much of his focus has been on the LPGA Tour; he covered his first LPGA event in 1986 and has observed the evolution and growth of the organization ever since. In addition to tournament coverage, Rick regularly profiles WPGA players and skilfully interviews club professionals (recognising their contributions to the industry). Rick enjoys writing about golf history and is the host of the Women’s Golf Report podcast. He plays golf “well enough to have fun with it,” and embraces the tee it forward concept. ADRIANA DONNOLA – BEAUTY EDITOR Adriana has over 25 years’ experience writing fashion, beauty and lifestyle on women’s magazines including New Idea, Who…

Announced at Sanctuary Cove Marina on Queensland’s Gold Coast recently, the tournament was unveiled with fanfare that included music, a gathering of female athletes from various sports and even a superyacht. Because despite already having LPGA Tour regular Su Oh’s name on the trophy the event will take on a new lease of life next year. First played at Royal Queensland Golf Club alongside the men’s Australian PGA Championship in the pandemic days of January 2022, the first staging included a limited field and no halfway cut. Now, it will be a standalone full field event that starts a three-week swing of co-sanctioned events by the WPGA Tour of Australasia and the Ladies European Tour and will be staged on The Palms course of Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club…

During the covid confusion, when much of the world was grappling with uncertainty, professional golf found itself at a standstill. For Justin Rose and his wife, Kate, a casual conversation during 2020 turned into a defining moment, not just for them, but for women’s golf in the UK. It started with a need. As men’s PGA events slowly returned, the women’s game remained in limbo. When Justin and Kate heard about Liz Young’s initiative, gathering female golfers to play in small, self-funded events to keep their skills sharp, it struck a chord. “They were doing whatever it took to stay competitive,” Justin recalls. The Roses recognised the importance of fostering a space for these athletes, especially as the nature of professional sports demands regular competition to stay sharp. The solution…

This industry big hitter, started 31 years ago in the garage of a Melbourne suburban home, is entering a new chapter by taking on investors, but the family remains firmly at the MGI Golf helm with CEOs Miranda Turner and Carrie Edwards-Britt, the daughters of company founder Ian Edwards. The new shareholders are private equity firm, Anacacia Capital (majority shareholder) and Athletic Ventures, a syndicate attracting current and former elite athletes as investors, including golfer, Karrie Webb, and cricketers, Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy. The investment deal not only provides an exit strategy for Ian (he will serve on the board as a non-executive director) and a financial return for his three decades of hard work, it gives Miranda and Carrie opportunities to extend their brand’s global reach. Both have…