Oz in Spain

Nine months out from the first Solheim Cup to be held in Spain, the biennial women’s team competition between Europe and the United States is already “smashing economic forecasts”. 

The event will be held from 22 to 24 September at Finca Cortesín, in Casares municipality on the Costa del Sol.   […]

Eight countries including Australia will resume their 2022 Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals tennis campaigns in Málaga next week. Australia’s opening match on 22 November is against the Netherlands, while Spain plays Croatia on the following day, and two matches will be played on 24 November, Italy against the United States and Germany versus Canada. […]

Two of the world’s leading women golfers shared the honours at the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande tournament held at La Reserva Club in August. […]

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In one of the least closely guarded secrets of this year’s turbulent golf season, Cameron Smith has been officially confirmed as the highest-ranked player to join the breakaway LIV Golf tour. The 2022 British Open champion, second in the world ranking, will be making his debut in the Boston Invitational (2-4 September). […]

He seemed to have played himself out of contention with a mediocre third round, and he was still seemingly a longshot halfway through Sunday’s final round. But Cameron Smith produced one of the finest back nines in major golf championship history to win the 150th British Open Championship at St. Andrews.  […]

Sisters Nelly and Jessica Korda are the latest stars to confirm their participation in the Aramco Team Series – Sotogrande at La Reserva Club. One of the Ladies European Tour’s showpiece events, and part of a series played around the world, the $1 million tournament on the Costa del Sol (18-20 August) features an innovative fourball format in which three LET professionals compete in each team together with an amateur golfer.  […]

Until this year’s Betfred World Championship, only seven players had made a maximum break of 147 at the iconic Crucible snooker venue. Now there are eight, with Australia’s Neil Robertson joining that ulta-elite group. […]

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Like many golf stars of his generation, Michael Campbell followed an arduous path to eventual global success. Born in Hawera (Taranaki) on New Zealand’s North Island in February 1969, he left school early, worked a full-time job while fine-tuning his game among the elite of New Zealand amateur golf, made his first inroads into the professional ranks on the Australasian Tour (during an era when Greg Norman was at his peak), then headed to Europe where, competing against a golden era of international champions, he worked his way up to become one of the Tour’s leading players. 

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After a difficult 2015-2016 season, Wests Tigers trounced South Sydney in a fiercely contested National Rugby League opener for 2017.