Playing from the Tips

Things slow down a little in the world of professional golf this week with the DP World Tour taking a break. But that still leaves the PGA Tour, Asian Tour and Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.

Tiger Woods returns at classic Riviera for The Genesis Invitational, the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia move north for the Webex Players Series Hunter Valley and the Asian Tour starts for 2024 at the Malaysian Open.

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It’s party week on the PGA Tour at the WM Phoenix Open, while LIV Golf looks to win big in Las Vegas. The DP World Tour’s desert swing continues in the middle east at the Qatar Masters and at home the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour of Australasia play the Webex Players Series Sydney hosted by Braith Anasta.

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After some thrilling golf last week across all Tours, it’s more of the same this week. LIV returns for season 2024 in Mexico, while the Vic Open takes centre stage here in Australia. Meanwhile, the PGA Tour heads to Pebble Beach for the second of their eight signature events and the DP World Tour visits Bahrain.

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We’re back to full steam ahead on the golf world stage with tournaments in Florida, California, the Middle East and Australia this week. Adrian Logue is overseas on assignment so it’s a treat to welcome former Tour player turned commentator Ewan Porter back to the pod for his thoughts on who and what to watch for this week.

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Golf’s been back on the 2024 schedule for two weeks already but it’s the first episode of the new year for our intrepid tipsters. This week’s previews include the PGA Tour playing their first mainland event of the New Year in California, the DP World Tour in their traditional early year Middle East location of Dubai, the LPGA in Florida and our local Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia heading to Cobram Barooga for the Webex Players Series Murray River in honour of Jarrod Lyle. 

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No golf so no tips this week but a bit of a look back in the on and off course highlights and lowlights of the year from our so-called experts.

They touch on everything from the Solheim and Ryder Cups to the inevitable talk of LIV and the PGA Tour.

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The year is crawling to a close with just two events on the world’s major Tours this week. The Asian Tour heads to Saudi Arabia for their final event of the season, the Saudi Open, while the DP World Tour wraps up 2023 in Mauritius at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. You can see the Bank of the Year – Mauritius trophy mentioned by Adrian Logue here (https://www.afrasiabank.com/en) 

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The year is not quite done and dusted in terms of professional golf with three events to look at this week. In the ‘proper’ tournament category is the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Championship in South Africa while the PGA Tour and LPGA team up for what looks to be an interesting mixed teams event in Florida. Meanwhile, some of Australia’s best head to Cathedral Lodge in Victoria for the two day Cathedral Invitational which begins with a Pro-Member.

Tiger Woods is coming back at his own tournament in the Bahamas. but most of the golf world’s attention will be firmly fixed on Sydney and the Australian Open.

The dual men’s and women’s titles will be decided over The Australian and The Lakes layouts with some of the game’s biggest stars on show. Also on this week is the South African Open at the Gary Player designed Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Centre while the Asian Tour tees up in Taiwan.

Also go here (https://bit.ly/3QZG4wB) to check out our The Thing About Golf interview with Denis McDade mentioned on this episode.

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It’s as close to a week off as the global game gets with just two tournaments this week, both part of the DP World Tour schedule and of high importance in their respective parts of the world. In South Africa the Joburg Open tees off at the Jack Nicklaus redesigned Houghton Golf Club, while the first of Australia’s two major events, the Fortinet Australian PGA Championship, heads to Royal Queensland as part of the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia.

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