The golf summer season continues with one of many nation’s high tournaments, the 2023 Australian Open, teeing off on Thursday November 30.
Sydney will host the 106th version of the occasion with the motion to happen throughout two totally different programs. Right here’s all the pieces it is advisable know forward of what guarantees to be an exhilarating occasion.
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WHERE IS IT?
This 12 months, Sydney’s Australian Golf Membership and the Lakes Golf Membership are co-hosting the vent.
Males’s and girls’s gamers will alternate between programs throughout the primary two days, with the Australian Golf Membership to host the ultimate two rounds on the weekend.
The par 71, 7,228-yard Australian is the nation’s oldest course whereas the Lakes (par 72) is barely shorter at 6,899 yards however poses extra of a Hyperlinks-style problem.
WHO IS IN THE FIELD?
A who’s who of Australian golf will characteristic together with Australian PGA Championship winner Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith, Adam Scott, Marc Leishman, Cam Davis, Lucas Herbert, Matt Jones, Aaron Baddeley and veterans together with Geoff Ogilvy, John Senden and Peter Lonard.
Poland’s Adrian Meronk is again to defend his 2022 title whereas the worldwide crop additionally contains Chilean Joaquin Niemann, European Ryder Cup star Robert MacIntyre and in-form Japanese stars Ryo Hisatsune and Rikuya Hoshino.
Californian membership professional Michael Block is among the extra intriguing and controversial entrants, accepting an invite after taking pictures to fame on the PGA Championship.
The ladies’s discipline is spearheaded by Aussie world No.5 Minjee Lee, main winner Hannah Inexperienced, reigning champion South African Ashleigh Buhai and Korean Jiyai Shin.
WHO ARE THE FAVOURITES?
These are the favourites within the males’s and girls’s discipline, in line with TAB.
Males’s: Min Woo Lee $5.50, Cameron Smith $6.50, Cam Davis $8, Adam Scott $12, Marc Leishman $13, Joaquin Niemann $14, Lucas Herbert $19
Girls’s: Minjee Lee $2.50, Jiyai Shin $6, Hannah Inexperienced $7, Stephanie Kyruacou $13, Grace Kim $13, Ashleigh Buhai $13
HOW MUCH DO THE WINNERS GET?
A report whole of AU$3.4 million of prize cash is on supply, with the lads’s and girls’s champions to every obtain $A$270,000
HOW TO WATCH
You may watch each spherical stay ann Fox Sports activities, out there on Foxtel and Kayo.
Protection occasions in AEDT
Spherical 1: Thursday, 12pm – 5pm
Spherical 2: Friday, 12pm – 5pm
Spherical 3: Saturday, 2pm – 7pm
Spherical 4: Sunday, 2pm – 7pm
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TEE TIMES (in AEDT)
Full tee occasions for Spherical 1 have been launched and might be seen HERE.
Under are some chosen marquee teams from the lads’s and girls’s discipline for Thursday’s opening spherical.
THE LAKES GOLF CLUB
7.05am Min Woo Lee, Cameron Smith, Rikuya Hoshino
7.16am Minjee Lee, Gabriela Ruffels, Stephanie Kyriacou
7.27am Marc Leishman, Cameron Davis, Robert MacIntyre
THE AUSTRALIAN GOLF CLUB
12pm: Adrian Meronk, Adam Scott, Matt Jones
12.11pm Hannah Inexperienced, Grace Kim, Ashleigh Buhai
12.22pm Aaron Baddeley, Lucas Herbert, Joaquin Niemann
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