AUSTRALIA’S greatest golfers, together with famous person Rory McIlroy, will play for about $7million in complete prizemoney within the first half of the PGA Australasian Tour’s 2025-2026 season, which kicks off with the Papua New Guinea Open in mid-August.
McIlroy will contest the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne from December 4 to 7, an occasion which this 12 months affords prizemoney of at the very least $2 million.
Per week earlier, an elite discipline will contest the $2.5 million Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland – the richest of the ten Australasian Tour occasions performed earlier than Christmas.
The schedule was introduced at a operate at Nudgee Golf Membership, which is able to host the Queensland PGA Championship from November 20 to 23.
Anthony Quayle, a former Queensland PGA champion, and third in final 12 months’s Australian PGA, mentioned it could be a thrill to compete towards a number of the world’s greatest gamers in our massive occasions – significantly in entrance of household and buddies.
A number of of Australia’s greatest worldwide gamers are sure to once more compete at house this season, and the Australian PGA will announce these particulars within the coming weeks.
The post-Christmas schedule of occasions may also be introduced quickly, and can embrace one other 4 Webex tournaments, by which women and men compete on the identical course for a similar title.
The tour will proceed till March, with essentially the most profitable golfers once more incomes exemptions and alternatives to compete internationally.
Queenslander Elvis Smylie, the present Australasian Tour Order of Benefit champion, was confirmed as a starter within the 2025 Australian PGA Championship.
That is the schedule of tournaments for the remainder of 2025:
August 14-17: PNG Open at Royal Port Moresby Golf Membership, $225,000
August 28-31: NT PGA Championship at Palmerston Golf Course, $200,000
September 27-28: World Sand Greens Championship at Binalong Group Membership $140,000 (non-OOM)
October 9-12: WA PGA Championship at Kalgoorlie Golf Course, $250,000
October 16-19: WA Open at Mt Lawley Golf Membership, $200,000
October 23-26: Webex Gamers Collection South Australia hosted by Greg Blewett at Willunga Golf Course, $200,000
November 13-16: NSW Open at The Classic Golf Membership, $800,000 min
November 20-23: Queensland PGA Championship at Nudgee Golf Membership, $250,000
November 27-30: Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Membership, $2,500,000
December 4-7: Australian Open at The Royal Melbourne Golf Membership, $2,000,000 min
December 11-14: Victorian PGA Championship at Moonah Hyperlinks Resort, $250,000
