The Women's Game Features

Feature story: Open for the taking

Feature story: Open for the taking

There is no greater opportunity for a golfer to etch their name into folklore than winning a major championship at the Old Course. 21 Aug 2024
The Lowdown: Australasians at the Evian

The Lowdown: Australasians at the Evian

The women’s major championship season for 2024 resumes this week with The Amundi Evian Championship. Here is the lowdown for the seven Australians and one New Zealander teeing it up in France, starting tomorrow (AEST). 10 Jul 2024
13th Beach Golf Links accelerates gender equality progress

13th Beach Golf Links accelerates gender equality progress

Victoria’s 13th Beach Golf Links is one of the most egalitarian clubs in Australia. 20 Mar 2024
Morri: It’s time to mix up the Cup

Morri: It’s time to mix up the Cup

Vested interests and internal politics so often distract from the simplest answers facing the game and the fact the Presidents Cup is not already a mixed event might just be Exhibit A. 16 Oct 2023
Morri: A tied result ticks plenty of boxes

Morri: A tied result ticks plenty of boxes

For all the chatter about the tied match at the Solheim Cup it is perhaps a man who has been dead for almost 100 years that has the most insight to offer. 25 Sep 2023
Local Legend: Sylvia Donohoe

Local Legend: Sylvia Donohoe

When you walk into the member’s lounge at Narooma Golf Club on New South Wales’ far south coast, you’re stepping foot into the Sylvia Donohoe room – named after the club’s most decorated champion and local legend. 13 Sep 2023
Morri: Carner’s remarkable example of golf’s unique qualities

Morri: Carner’s remarkable example of golf’s unique qualities

You don’t have to look far to find evidence of golf’s uniqueness among sports and this past week delivered another shining example. 28 Aug 2023
Morri: Slumbers is a “voice of reason and wisdom”

Morri: Slumbers is a “voice of reason and wisdom”

What a breath of fresh air R&A CEO Martin Slumbers is. 14 Aug 2023
Opinion: Why not a World Cup?

Opinion: Why not a World Cup?

The AIG Women’s Open sits as one of the great events on the calendar each year. This year that is heightened by the venue, Walton Heath, one of the great English heathland courses no longer able to contain the bash and dash of the men’s game. 9 Aug 2023
Opinion: Making mountains out of major courses

Opinion: Making mountains out of major courses

The host venue of a major championship inevitably receives plenty of attention in the lead-up to, and in aftermath of, the week. 26 Jul 2023
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

Commemorating the players of 1975, with an eye to the future of the women's game. 21 Jul 2023
Morri: Park the Pebble comparisons

Morri: Park the Pebble comparisons

The context of the original Theodore Roosevelt quote is unclear, but the sentiment is relevant in the wake of an enthralling U.S Women’s Open at Pebble Beach. 10 Jul 2023
Opinion: Sliding doors of Ruffels and Rose

Opinion: Sliding doors of Ruffels and Rose

It took 38 holes to split Rose Zhang and Gabi Ruffels in the final of the 2020 U.S Women’s Amateur Championship at Woodmont Country Club in Maryland. 6 Jul 2023
Winning Wave

Winning Wave

We’ve been blessed as Australian golf fans. 5 Jul 2023
Morri: After 250 starts, Alonso claims inspirational first win

Morri: After 250 starts, Alonso claims inspirational first win

It will get less attention than it deserves but Carmen Alonso’s win at the Ladies European Tour event in Finland at the weekend is the sort of feel good story professional golf could do with more of right now. 3 Jul 2023
Morri: Great Expectations

Morri: Great Expectations

Fair or not fans (and by extension sponsors and media) latch on to personalities in sport and golf being a solo pursuit is more prone to hype than others. 26 Jun 2023
Opinion: Golf's new world order whitewash women's golf day

Opinion: Golf's new world order whitewash women's golf day

The landmark announcement of the coming together of golf’s two warring factions has taken almost every inch of column space and conversation since it surprisingly came to light. 8 Jun 2023
Morri: A great win for Zhang, and women’s golf in general

Morri: A great win for Zhang, and women’s golf in general

By definition it’s not every week a generational player comes along but those who made the effort to watch this week’s LPGA event were treated to an early look at just such a golfer. 5 Jun 2023
Morri: Great golfers still come in all shapes and sizes

Morri: Great golfers still come in all shapes and sizes

We see less of it in the modern men’s game than we used to but what a joy it was to watch the diminutive Ayaka Furue make the final of the LPGA’s matchplay tournament at the weekend. 29 May 2023
Morri: Bizarro world

Morri: Bizarro world

Perhaps it’s just me (in fact I’m sure it is) but I often find parallels between the 90s sitcom Seinfeld and golf. 24 Apr 2023
Morri: Lack of Saudi women’s discussion a blight on golf

Morri: Lack of Saudi women’s discussion a blight on golf

Are the game’s top women being given a free ride when it comes to playing for Saudi money? Some on social media would like to have you think so, but the reality is likely much more depressing. 20 Feb 2023