Twelve months ago, Lee’s playoff victory over Charley Hull at Kenwood Country Club sparked a run of form that saw her climb back to No.4 in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking.

Lee had two wins, two runner-up finishes and two further top 10s in the space of seven starts but the memories of the performance that started her run are muted somewhat by a change of venue.

“I was actually talking about it with my physio yesterday; it kind of doesn’t feel like I’m defending,” said Lee, who enters the week ranked No.16 in the world.

“Obviously I won the tournament last year, but because we’re at a new venue it feels like I’m learning everything new and getting to know a new place.

“It’s not the same as when you’ve been to the tournament and you feel the vibes from the course that you kind of remember from the previous year.

“I’m really looking forward to a different challenge this year.”

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— LPGA (@LPGA) September 17, 2024

After a busy period that included the Paris Olympics, Women’s Scottish Open and AIG Women’s Open, the 28-year-old arrives refreshed and hopeful of another strong finish to the year.

“I had a nice break after our last Europe swing,” said the two-time major champion.

“I feel like after all the wind at the Scottish and AIG I was a little worn out.

“Just needed a couple weeks to refresh and do a little bit of practice and sharpen a few things in my game.”

Lee is not the only Australian with a title on the line this week.

Queenslander Scott Hend returns to WINSTONgolf in Germany as the defending champion of the WINSTONgolf Senior Open on the Legends Tour looking to make it an Aussie trifecta after Richard Green’s triumph in 2022.

It shapes as a potentially career-defining week for young Aussies Karl Vilips and Cassie Porter.

Vilips has qualified for the penultimate event of the Korn Ferry Tour Finals ranked 18th on the Points List, the top 30 after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to earn promotion to the PGA TOUR in 2025.

Porter is also one good result from a step up in class to the LPGA Tour in 2025.

Currently 10th on the Epson Tour with two events left in the season, Porter will earn status on the LPGA Tour if she can finish inside the top 15 at the completion of the Epson Tour Championship.

Photo: Oisin Keniry/R&A/R&A via Getty Images

Round 1 tee times AEST

LPGA Tour
Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G
TPC River’s Bend, Maineville, Ohio
10:20pm          Minjee Lee
10:31pm          Grace Kim
10:42pm*         Stephanie Kyriacou, Hira Naveed
11:04pm*         Robyn Choi
11:15pm*         Su Oh
3:09am            Gabriela Ruffels
3:20am*           Lydia Ko (NZ)

Defending champion: Minjee Lee
Past Aussie winners: Minjee Lee (2023)
Prize money: $US2 million
TV times: Live 3am-6am Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

DP World Tour
BMW PGA Championship
Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, England
5:45pm            Ryan Fox (NZ)
6:05pm            Adam Scott
10:25pm          Jason Scrivener

Defending champion: Ryan Fox
Past Aussie winners: Rodger Davis (1986), Mike Harwood (1990)
Prize money: $US9 million
TV times: Live 5:30pm-9am Thursday on Fox Sports 503; Live 9pm-10:30pm Thursday on Fox Sports 505; Live 10:30pm-3am Thursday on Fox Sports 503; Live 5:30pm-3am Friday; Live 6pm-2:30am Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

LIV Golf
Team Championship Dallas
Maridoe Golf Club, Carrollton, Texas
Australasians in the field: Cameron Smith, Lucas Herbert, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Danny Lee (NZ)

Defending champions: Crushers GC
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US50 million
TV times: Live 2:15am Saturday, Sunday, Monday on 7 Plus.

Japan Golf Tour
Panasonic Open Golf Championship
Arima Royal Golf Club, Hyogo
8:45am            Michael Hendry (NZ)
12:45pm*         Anthony Quayle
1:15pm            Brad Kennedy

Defending champion: Tomoharu Otsuki
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: ¥100 million

Ladies European Tour
La Sella Open
La Sella Golf Resort, Spain
5:36pm            Whitney Hillier
6:09pm*          Momoka Kobori (NZ)
9:26pm*          Kelsey Bennett
9:37pm            Kirsten Rudgeley
9:48pm*          Amy Walsh

Defending champion: Nuria Iturrioz
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: €1,000,000

Korn Ferry Tour
Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship
Ohio State University GC (Scarlet Cse), Columbus, Ohio
10:14pm*         Karl Vilips
3:27am            Rhein Gibson

Defending champion: Norman Xiong
Past Aussie winners: Curtis Luck (2020)
Prize money: $US1.5 million
TV times: Live 6am-8am Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

PGA TOUR Champions
PURE Insurance Championship
Pebble Beach Golf Links, Monterey Peninsula, California
Australasians in the field: Steven Alker (NZ), Steve Allan, Stuart Appleby, David Bransdon, Richard Green, Rod Pampling, Cameron Percy, John Senden, Michael Wright.

Defending champion: Thongchai Jaidee
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US2.3 million
TV times: Live 8am-11am Saturday, Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

Epson Tour
Murphy USA El Dorado Shootout
Mystic Creek Golf Club, El Dorado, Arkansas
Australasians in the field: Fiona Xu (NZ), Cassie Porter, Amelia Garvey (NZ)

Defending champion: Natasha Andrea Oon
Past Aussie winners: Hannah Green (2017)
Prize money: $US337,500

Challenge Tour
Italian Challenge Open
Argentario GC, Monte Argentario, Italy
3:30pm*          Hayden Hopewell
9:40pm            Sam Jones (NZ)
10:10pm          Blake Windred

Defending champion: Natasha Andrea Oon
Past Aussie winners: Hannah Green (2017)
Prize money: $US337,500

Legends Tour
WINSTONgolf Senior Open
WINSTONgolf, Vorbeck, Germany
Australasians in the field: Scott Hend, Michael Long (NZ)

Defending champion: Scott Hend
Past Aussie winners: Terry Price (2012), Richard Green (2022), Scott Hend (2023)

The club champion at Bexley Golf Club in Sydney at just 12 years of age, good judges have been closely monitoring Guan’s progress for close to a decade.

He won the 2022 Junior PLAYERS Championship in record-setting fashion and represented the International team in the Junior Presidents Cup that same year.

With three top-10 finishes on the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia as an amateur during the 2022/2023 season, Guan finished atop the Future Tour Order of Merit. That provided a direct pathway onto his home Tour, a Tour he joined as a professional last November at the Queensland PGA Championship.

Guan logged his first top-five finish in just his second start at the Victorian PGA Championship, had top 10s in two Webex Players Series events and was added to the Golf Australia Rookie Squad in February this year.

Last month he signed with management company, Sportfive, joining a stable of stars that boasts major winners Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Keegan Bradley and Brian Harman.

Thanks to a sponsor invitation, the 20-year-old will now tee it up alongside the likes of Wyndham Clark, Max Homa, defending champion Sahith Theegala and fellow Aussies Min Woo Lee and Aaron Baddeley at the Silverado Resort.

In announcing Guan’s signing to Sportfive, President of Global Golf, Steve Loy, said he was eager to help Guan’s growth on the world stage.

“We are very excited about Jeff, an excellent young player with the skills and dedication to succeed at the highest level,” said Loy.

“He’s talented, determined, and ambitious, and we have the perfect worldwide set-up to guide him throughout his career.”

Guan has played four events on the Challenge Tour in Europe this year, his best result a tie for 10th at the Le Vaudreil Golf Challenge, a tournament in which he had a share of the lead at the halfway mark.

As Guan begins his PGA TOUR career, Cameron Smith and his Ripper GC teammates play their final individual event of the 2024 LIV Golf season in Chicago.

Winner of the inaugural Chicago event in 2022, Smith enters the week sixth in the individual standings, Ripper GC third in the team standings. If Ripper GC can hang onto third, they will earn a first-round bye in next week’s Dallas Team Championship.

Jason Scrivener and David Micheluzzi will fly the Aussie flag at the Amgen Irish Open, Karl Vilips can lock up a PGA TOUR card at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Simmons Bank Open and there are nine Aussies in the field for the Sanford International on the PGA TOUR Champions.

Photo: Aurelien Meunier/Getty Images

Round 1 tee times AEST

PGA TOUR
Procore Championship
Silverado Resort (North Cse), Napa, California
12:11am*         Aaron Baddeley
1:50am*           Jeffrey Guan
5:27am*           Tim Wilkinson (NZ)
5:38am            Min Woo Lee

Defending champion: Sahith Theegala
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US6 million
TV times: Live 3am-11am Friday; Live 3am-11:30am Saturday; Live 8:30am-11:30am Sunday; Live 8am-11am Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

DP World Tour
Amgen Irish Open
Royal County Down GC, Co Down, Northern Ireland
5:40pm            Sam Jones (NZ)
6:30pm            David Micheluzzi
9:40pm            Ryan Fox (NZ)
11pm*             Jason Scrivener
11:10pm          Daniel Hillier (NZ)

Defending champion: Vincent Norrman
Past Aussie winners: Brett Rumford (2004), Lucas Herbert (2021)
Prize money: $US6 million
TV times: Live 10pm-3am Thursday; Live 1am-3am Saturday; Live 9:30pm-2.30am Saturday, Sunday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

LIV Golf
LIV Golf Chicago
Bolingbrook Golf Club, Bolingbrook, Illinois
Australasians in the field: Cameron Smith, Marc Leishman, Matt Jones, Lucas Herbert, Danny Lee (NZ)

Defending champion: Bryson DeChambeau
Past Aussie winners: Cameron Smith (2022)
Prize money: $US20 million
TV times: Live 3:15am Saturday, Sunday, Monday on 7 Plus.

Japan Golf Tour
ANA Open Golf Tournament
Sapporo Golf Club (Watatsu Cse), Hokkaido
8:50am            Anthony Quayle
9:05am*           Brad Kennedy
12:20pm          Brendan Jones

Defending champion: Hideto Tanihara
Past Aussie winners: Graham Marsh (1979), Kurt Barnes (2011), Brendan Jones (2016)
Prize money: ¥150 million

Korn Ferry Tour
Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation
Vanderbilt Legends Club (North Cse), Franklin, Tennessee
11:25pm*         Brett Drewitt
3:29am*           Karl Vilips
3:51am            Rhein Gibson

Defending champion: Grayson Murray
Past Aussie winners: Cameron Davis (2018)
Prize money: $US1.5 million
TV times: Live 3am-6am Friday on Fox Sports 503; 12pm-1:30pm Saturday; 5pm-6:30pm Sunday; Live 5am-8am Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

Epson Tour
Tuscaloosa Toyota Classic
Ol’ Colony Golf Complex, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Australasians in the field: Fiona Xu (NZ), Cassie Porter, Maddison Hinson-Tolchard

Defending champion: Isabella Fierro
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US237,500

Challenge Tour
Open de Portugal at Royal Óbidos
Royal Óbidos Spa & Golf Resort, Vau Óbidos, Portugal
5:20pm            Hayden Hopewell

Defending champion: Marco Penge
Past Aussie winners: Dimitrios Papadatos (2018)
Prize money: €270,000

LET Access Series
Hauts de France Pas de Calais Golf Open
Golf Saint Omer, Lumbres, France
Australasians in the field: Kelsey Bennett, Wenyung Keh (NZ)

Defending champion: Lejan Lewthwaite
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: €40,000

PGA TOUR Champions
Sanford International
Minnehaha Country Club, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Australasians in the field: Steven Alker (NZ), Steve Allan, Stuart Appleby, David Bransdon, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Mark Hensby, Rod Pampling, John Senden, Michael Wright.

Defending champion: Steve Stricker
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US2.1 million
TV times: 1:30pm-3pm Saturday; 11:30am-1pm Sunday; 11am-12:30pm Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

Legends Tour
European Legends Cup
Golf Almerimar, Andalucia, Spain
Australasians in the field: Michael Campbell (NZ), Michael Long (NZ), Scott Hend

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil

Lee will tee it up in this week’s Procore Championship in California, his first PGA TOUR appearance in a month and what will be his final hit-out prior to joining the International team in Canada from September 26-29.

A thrill-a-minute crowd favourite wherever he plays in the world, the 26-year-old shapes as a lightning rod for an International team craving home course advantage so close to the United States.

But rather than looking for ways to ignite a parochial Canadian crowd, Lee will have the words of wisdom from two icons of Australian golf ringing in his ears.

Selected to represent Australia at the Paris Olympic Games, Lee was urged by teammate and former world No.1 Jason Day and Captain and seven-time major champion Karrie Webb to do what’s required to realise his promise of becoming one of the best players in world golf.

“Obviously we did the Olympics together and Jason has been such a big help over the last couple of months and put my mindset in a different spot,” Lee revealed.

“He’s my opponent most weeks but he is a good friend. He has put a good mindset in me, saying that I have the potential to be a really good golfer and to just work hard and not waste my potential.

“Same as Karrie, she said the same thing. Just a little bit of a mindset switch, I guess.

“I’m not saying I don’t work hard – I do work hard – but just doing that extra little bit that I should be doing because I’m still young and I can still do it and my body’s healthy.”

Lee was one of six Captain’s picks named by Mike Weir last week, joining fellow Australians Day and Adam Scott in an International team chasing its first win since the Peter Thomson-led team of 1998.

The additional Aussie influence comes courtesy of Assistant Captain Geoff Ogilvy, who is also excited at the prospect of the energy Lee will bring to the team.

“It really is a tournament where you can, not show off as such, but just go full enthusiasm more than you can in a 72-hole strokeplay tournament,” said Ogilvy, a veteran of three Presidents Cup campaigns.

“The format I think will really suit Min. He’s clearly one of the best players in the world, hits hit miles and will really bring his enthusiasm and excitement to it.

“That has an effect not just on the course, but that has an effect in the team room, too.”

But while a social media profile now boasting 598,000 followers on Instagram alone brings an audience all his own, Lee insists he won’t go to extra lengths to whip the Canadian crowd into a frenzy.

“I know it’s going to be very exciting. The crowd’s going to bring it,” added Lee, currently ranked No.40 in the Official World Golf Ranking.

“I know the Canadians love their hockey, love their sport, and there’s a few Canadians on the team so it’s going to be a massive deal.

“I’m just going to do my thing. Nothing planned, but at the end of the day we’re trying to play as good as we can.

“Nothing to hinder my golf, but a lot of excitement and a lot of support, which would be great.”

Photo: Courtesy PGA TOUR

Trailing by three at the start of the final round of the 40th Shinhan Donghae Open, a tournament co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour, Smyth unleashed an astonishing birdie barrage to earn a share of the lead.

The New South Welshman peeled off a career-best seven consecutive birdies to start his final round and added an eighth at the par-4 ninth to go out in 28.

It would have been regarded as one of the finest nine-hole scores ever recorded on the Asian Tour but, as preferred lies were in play, can not be recognised as official.

Regardless, it put Smyth in prime position to challenge for a second Asian Tour title.

But the flood of front nine birdies dried up on the more challenging inward nine, Smyth’s nine pars to finish seeing him fall just one shot short of Japan’s Kensei Hirata.

“Bittersweet, after shooting eight under, but not winning,” said the 29-year-old, who now moves to sixth on the Asian Tour Order of Merit.

“Seven-under yesterday and then 8-under today; amazing weekend.

“To fall one short sucks a bit, but my game is in a good spot; I think I am pretty close. I am just proud of the way I played.

“The front nine, obviously everything went my way. I do have the ability to hit good shots but to hit so many good shots in the space of nine holes is pretty amazing.

“Never had seven birdies in a row, that’s another PB of mine.”

Hend’s hopes of a second Legends Tour title were also bolstered by a strong start to his final round.

He wiped away a two-shot deficit with birdies at his opening two holes and looked the man to beat when he added a third at the par-5 fifth.

But a bogey-free 4-under 68 would not be enough as Scotland’s Greig Hutcheon stormed home with an 8-under 64 to win by two strokes.

West Australian Jason Scrivener produced his best result in close to two years to ignite his hopes of qualifying for the DP World Tour playoffs.

Scrivener’s closing round of 3-under 67 was enough for a tie for fourth at the Omega European Masters. He climbed 45 spots to 78th in the Race to Dubai Rankings and moved up 117 spots on the Official World Golf Ranking.

Cameron Percy took another step towards securing his future on the PGA TOUR Champions with a tie for sixth at the Ascension Charity Classic, projected to move up six spots to 31st in the Schwab Cup standings.

Photos: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images (Smyth); Phil Inglis/Getty Images (Hend)

Results

DP World Tour
Omega European Masters
Crans-sur-Sierre GC, Crans Montana, Switzerland
1          Matt Wallace                64-62-73-70—269       €496,979.28
Won in sudden-death playoff
T4        Jason Scrivener            64-69-72-67—272       €135,061.43
MC       Haydn Barron               70-70—140
MC       Sam Jones (NZ)            67-75—142
MC       David MIcheluzzi          72-71—143
MC       Andrew Martin             77-71—148

Asian Tour/Japan Golf Tour
The 40th Shinhan Donghae Open
Ocean Course at Club72, Korea
1          Kensei Hirata                71-67-62-66—266       $US191,343.96
2          Travis Smyth                68-70-65-64—267       $116,932.42
T40      Brad Kennedy              69-65-71-74—279       $5,515.45
MC       Anthony Quayle           67-75—142
MC       Kevin Yuan                   73-71—144
MC       Brendan Jones             72-75—147
MC       Junseok Lee                  76-74—150
MC       Wonjoon Lee                75-76—151

PGA TOUR Champions
Ascension Charity Classic
Norwood Hills Country Club, St Louis, Missouri
1          YE Yang                        65-69-66—200
Won at first hole of sudden-death playoff
T6        Cameron Percy             69-69-67—205
T8        Richard Green              71-69-66—206
T15      Rod Pampling              68-68-72—208
T20      Steven Alker (NZ)         74-70-65—209
T23      Stuart Appleby             72-71-67—210
T23      Steve Allan                   67-73-70—210
T23      Greg Chalmers             70-68-72—210
T31      David Bransdon           70-72-69—211
T31      Mark Hensby               70-70-71—211
T60      Michael Wright            69-75-72—216
T64      John Senden                71-74-72—217

Challenge Tour
Big Green Egg German Challenge
Wittelsbacher Golfclub, Neuburg an der Donau, Germany
1          Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen    69-73-67-64—273       €43,200
MC       Hayden Hopewell        72-72—144

PGA TOUR Americas
Fortinet Cup Championship
TPC Toronto (North Cse), Caledon, Ontario
1          Will Cannon                 72-65-69-69—275       $US40,500
MC       Grant Booth                 71-74—145
MC       Harry Hillier (NZ)          78-67—145

Epson Tour
Guardian Championship
Capitol Hill Golf Club, Prattville, Alabama
1          Fatima Fernandez Cano            69-66-67—202 $US39,375
T41      Fiona Xu (NZ)               71-71-71—213 $1,341
T41      Cassie Porter                76-68-69—213 $1,341
MC       Maddison Hinson-Tolchard      75-71—146
MC       Su Oh                                      74-80—154

LET Access Series
Rose Ladies Open
The Melbourne Club at Brocket Hall, England
1          Helen Briem                 68-69-66—203 €13,600
T17      Momoka Kobori (NZ)   72-71-68—211 €1,320.33
MC       Kelsey Bennett             76-72—148
MC       Stephanie Bunque        73-76—149
MC       Munchin Keh (NZ)        77-75—152
MC       Wenyung Keh (NZ)       79-76—155

Legends Tour
Legends Open de France
Le Touquet Golf Resort (La Forêt Cse), France
1          Greig Hutcheon           69-70-64—203
T2        Scott Hend                   69-68-68—205
11        Michael Long (NZ)        70-69-69—208
T40      Michael Campbell (NZ) 76-73-68—217

Scott is the only Australian in the field for the PGA TOUR season finale, the 44-year-old rocketing to 14th in the FedEx Cup standings and 21st in the Official World Golf Rankings on the back of three runner-up finishes in the past month.

But under the format of the FedEx Cup, Scott will start the opening round on Friday morning seven strokes back of Scheffler, the world No.1 pegged at 10-under par before a ball is struck at East Lake Golf Club.

The only Australian to win the Tour Championship, Scott will need to produce something extraordinary to climb from his starting position of 3-under par and hold the trophy aloft for a second time on Sunday.

And in an ominous warning to Scott and the other 28 players in the field hoping to unseat him, Scheffler said that “more often than not” he gets the better of those who he gives up seven shots to in a single round at Royal Oaks Country Club.

“At home I’m typically playing to a plus-7,” Scheffler revealed.

“I used to be a plus-5. They moved me to a plus-7. So now we’ve got guys in the group that are getting like two strokes a hole.

“I typically still will win more often than not, I feel like, but it’s just fun.

“If you’re going out there with a 12, 13 handicap you don’t know what the heck is going to happen.

“If I’m at home, pretty much either Friday or Saturday, I’m playing with somebody that I’m giving 20 strokes. I think we’re up to 20 strokes now. And he takes them all.”

Yet to win the FedEx Cup, this year marks the third time in succession that Scheffler has entered the Tour Championship ahead of the pack.

Although he hasn’t been able to convert the past two years, he is bullish about his prospects of making it eight wins on the season.

“This is the best opportunity that I’ll have in my career probably to win a golf tournament,” said the Masters and Olympic champion.

“I’m starting two strokes ahead of second place. That’s a pretty cool place to be, really.”

Opportunities abound also for Aussies around the globe this week.

Webex Players Series Hunter Valley champion Daniel Gale has received an invitation to play this week’s Betfred British Masters on the DP World Tour while Cassie Porter can further her claims for promotion to the LPGA Tour at the Epson Tour’s Four Winds Invitational.

At the tournament where fellow Aussie Gabriela Ruffels wrapped up her LPGA Tour card 12 months ago, Porter arrives at South Bend, Indiana fifth on the Race For The Card standings.

With just five events left in the season to determine the top 15 who will receive LPGA status, a strong showing could be enough to push Porter over the line.

Rookie Connor McDade has received an invite to join 17 other Aussies in the field for the Asian Tour’s Mandiri Indonesia Open and world No.7 Hannah Green leads a six-strong Australian contingent at the inaugural FM Championship on the LPGA Tour.

Photo: Kevin C Cox/Getty Images

Round 1 tee times AEST

PGA TOUR
TOUR Championship
East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia
2:49am            Adam Scott

Defending champion: Viktor Hovland
Past Aussie winners: Adam Scott (2006)
Prize money: $US100 million
TV times: Live 1am-8am Friday, Saturday; Live 2am-9am Sunday; Live 1am-8am Monday on Fox Sports 503 and Kayo.

DP World Tour
Betfred British Masters hosted by Sir Nick Faldo
The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England
4:30pm            Jason Scrivener
6:20pm*          Haydn Barron
6:30pm            Sam Jones (NZ)
9:30pm*          Daniel Gale
10pm               Daniel Hillier (NZ)
11:20pm          David Micheluzzi

Defending champion: Daniel Hillier
Past Aussie winners: Graham Marsh (1979), Greg Norman (1982), Robert Allenby (1996)
Prize money: $US3.5 million
TV times: Live 9:30pm-1am Thursday on Fox Sports 503; Live 9:30pm-3am Friday; Live 9:30pm-2:30am Saturday; Live 9pm-2am Sunday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo.

LPGA Tour
FM Championship
TPC Boston, Norton, Massachusetts
2:37am            Robyn Choi
2:37am*           Hira Naveed
2:59am            Hannah Green
3:10am*           Grace Kim
3:32am            Stephanie Kyriacou
4:16am            Sarah Jane Smith

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US3.8 million
TV times: Live 5:30am-8:30am Friday, Saturday; Live 4:30am-7:30am Sunday; Live 3:30am-6:30am Monday on Fox Sports 505 and Kayo.

Asian Tour
Mandiri Indonesia Open
Damai Indah Golf (PIK Cse), Indonesia
9:40am             Sam Brazel
9:40am*           Marcus Fraser
10:30am          Maverick Antcliff
10:40am          Deyen Lawson
10:50am          Louis Dobbelaar
10:50am*         Connor McDade
11am*             Denzel Ieremia (NZ)
11:10am          Harrison Crowe
2:10pm            Jordan Zunic
2:20pm            Lachlan Barker
2:20pm*          Douglas Klein
2:30pm            Todd Sinnott
2:40pm            Scott Hend
2:40pm*          Kevin Yuan
2:50pm*          Jack Thompson
3pm                 Travis Smyth
3pm*               Andrew Dodt
3:10pm            Brendan Jones
3:20pm*          Aaron Wilkin
3:30pm*          Justin Warren

Defending champion: Nitithorn Thippong
Past Aussie winners: Terry Gale (1984), Craig Parry (1997), Nick Cullen (2012)
Prize money: $US500,000

Japan Golf Tour
Fujisankei Classic
Fujizakura Country Club, Yamanashi
8:30am            Anthony Quayle
12:50pm*         Brad Kennedy
1:25pm             Michael Hendry (NZ)

Defending champion: Takumi Kanaya
Past Aussie winners: Graham Marsh (1973, 1974), Paul Sheehan (2004)
Prize money: ¥110 million

Ladies European Tour
KPMG Women’s Irish Open
Carton House (The O’Meara Cse), Ireland
Australasians in the field: Whitney Hillier, Kirsten Rudgeley, Momoka Kobori (NZ), Kelsey Bennett, Amy Walsh

Defending champion: Smilla Tarning Soenderby
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: €400,000
TV times: Live 1am-4am Friday, Saturday; Live 12:30am-2am Sunday, Monday on Fox Sports 507 and Kayo.

PGA TOUR Americas
CRMC Championship
Craguns Legacy Course, Brainerd, Minnesota
10:30pm*         Harry Hillier (NZ)
11pm               Grant Booth
4:40am*           Charlie Hillier (NZ)

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US225,000

Challenge Tour
Rosa Challenge Tour
Rosa Golf Club, Konopiska, Poland
3:30pm            Andrew Martin
4:20pm*          Connor McKinney
8:30pm*          Hayden Hopewell
9:20pm*          Blake Windred

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: €270,000

LET Access Series
Get Golfing Women’s Golf Championship
The Club at Mill Green, England
Australasians in the field: Kristalle Blum, Stephanie Bunque, Wenyung Keh (NZ), Munchin Keh (NZ)

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: €80,000

Epson Tour
Four Winds Invitational
South Bend Country Club, South Bend, Indiana
10:11pm*         Su Oh
10:44pm          Fiona Xu (NZ)
3:45am*           Amelia Garvey (NZ)
3:56am*           Cassie Porter
4:29am            Maddison Hinson-Tolchard

Defending champion: Gabriela Ruffels
Past Aussie winners: Julia Boland (2012), Gabriela Ruffels (2024)
Prize money: $US262,500

Korean PGA Tour
Lexus Masters
A1 Country Club, Korea
7:50am            Sungjin Yeo (NZ)
8:50am            Kevin Chun (NZ)
9:20am            Wonjoon Lee
9:30am            Changgi Lee (NZ)
12:30pm          Junseok Lee

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: KRW1 billion

Legends Tour
HSBC India Legends Championship hosted by Jeev Milkha Singh
Jaypee Greens, Delhi
Australasians in the field: Michael Campbell (NZ), Michael Long (NZ)

Defending champion: Inaugural event
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: $US500,000

Sunshine Tour
Gary and Vivienne Player Challenge
Kyalami Country Club, Midrand, South Africa
7:30pm            Austin Bautista
Defending champion: Gerhard Pepler
Past Aussie winners: Nil
Prize money: R2 million