AUSTRALIA’S best golfers, along with superstar Rory McIlroy, will play for about $7million in total prizemoney in the first half of the PGA Australasian Tour’s 2025-2026 season, which kicks off with the Papua New Guinea Open in mid-August.
McIlroy will contest the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne from December 4 to 7, an event which this year offers prizemoney of at least $2 million.
A week earlier, an elite field will contest the $2.5 million Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland – the richest of the 10 Australasian Tour events played before Christmas.
The schedule was announced at a function at Nudgee Golf Club, which will host the Queensland PGA Championship from November 20 to 23.
Anthony Quayle, a former Queensland PGA champion, and third in last year’s Australian PGA, said it would be a thrill to compete against some of the world’s best players in our big events – particularly in front of family and friends.
Several of Australia’s best international players are certain to again compete at home this season, and the Australian PGA will announce those details in the coming weeks.
The post-Christmas schedule of events will also be announced soon, and will include another four Webex tournaments, in which men and women compete on the same course for the same title.
The tour will continue until March, with the most successful golfers again earning exemptions and opportunities to compete internationally.
Queenslander Elvis Smylie, the current Australasian Tour Order of Merit champion, was confirmed as a starter in the 2025 Australian PGA Championship.
This is the schedule of tournaments for the rest of 2025:
August 14-17: PNG Open at Royal Port Moresby Golf Club, $225,000
August 28-31: NT PGA Championship at Palmerston Golf Course, $200,000
September 27-28: World Sand Greens Championship at Binalong Community Club $140,000 (non-OOM)
October 9-12: WA PGA Championship at Kalgoorlie Golf Course, $250,000
October 16-19: WA Open at Mt Lawley Golf Club, $200,000
October 23-26: Webex Players Series South Australia hosted by Greg Blewett at Willunga Golf Course, $200,000
November 13-16: NSW Open at The Vintage Golf Club, $800,000 min
November 20-23: Queensland PGA Championship at Nudgee Golf Club, $250,000
November 27-30: Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, $2,500,000
December 4-7: Australian Open at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, $2,000,000 min
December 11-14: Victorian PGA Championship at Moonah Links Resort, $250,000
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