LPGA

Tournament: Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: El Camaleon Golf Course at Mayakoba

Purse: USD $2.5M

Ozzies in the field: Gabbi Ruffels, Hira Naveed, Sarah Kemp, Robyn Choi

Nelly Korda is in an incredible vein of form and notched up her third win of the season. Korda’s worst result in six starts is second, so she has three wins and three second places so far this year. It shapes up to eclipse her stellar 2024 year especially as the wins in 2026 already include a Major.

Korda recorded only two bogeys on her way to victory with one of those coming at the 72nd hole. By then she had a five shot lead so the slipup reduced her win to only four shots over Arpichaya Yubol of Thailand.

The best Ozzie finisher was Gabbi Ruffels at T27 followed by Robyn Choi at T52. After ten tournaments in the 2026 season Ruffels has started five events with only two made cuts so needs to play and score to get herself back inside the top eighty. Choi has had a much better start to the season starting in nine events and only missing two cuts. She sits at 62 in the Race to CME Globe standings.

Nelly Korda 1st – USD $375,000

Gabbi Ruffels T27 - $20,270

Robyn Choi T52 - $8,196

Hira Naveed MC

Sarah Kemp MC

EPSON TOUR

Tournament: Carlisle Arizona Women’s Golf Classic

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: TPC Scottsdale, Champions Course

Purse: USD $400,000

Ozzies in the field: Jennifer Elliot, Caitlin Peirce, Fiona Xu (NZ), Jennifer Whitting

Amari Avery almost made it two from tow but costly bogeys late in the final round allowed Megan Schoffil to take the title in Arizona. Schoffil started the final day with a two shot lead but three early birdies saw Avery take the lead. Schofill countered with birdies on 12, 13 & 15 to take back the lead and prevail by one shot over Avery.

Best of the Ozzies was Jennifer Elliot at T20. Elliot now sits at 37th on the Race for the Card Points Ranking so needs some good results to push toward that top 10-15 to earn promotion to the LPGA at seasons end.

Megan Schoffil 1st – USD $60,000

Jennifer Elliot T29 - $5,084

Caitlin Peirce T35 - $2,744

Fiona Xu (NZ) MC

Jess Whitting MC

LET

Tournament: MCB Ladies Classic Mauritius

Dates: 1 – 3 May

Course: Constance Belle Mare Plage (The Legend Course)

Purse:€400,000

Ozzies in the field: Kirsten Rudgeley, Madison Hinson-Tolchard, Justice Bosio

Denmark’s Smilla Soenderby needed a birdie on the final hole to secure her second LET victory and claim the inaugural MCB Ladies Classic – Mauritius. Soenderby’s final round 67 was enough to hold off fast finishing Kajsa Arwefjall and a faltering Cass Alexander.

Swede Kajsa Arwefjall fired a bogey free 66 to take the clubhouse lead several groups ahead of the final group. Her round included a near miss for ace on the 17th, just missing the prize of a week’s accommodation at the host resort.

South Africa’s Cass Alexander will rue her tee shot on her tenth hole where she pulled the ball left into a clump of the volcanic rocks that feature around the course. She had to take a penalty drop, left her approach short, duffed a chip and was lucky to escape with only a double bogey after she sank a ten foot putt. Ultimately, she finished only one shot back after e n sixteen and eagle on the final hole. It is Alexander’s 4th second place on tour this season.

Best of the Ozzies was Kirsten Rudgeley (T5) who played fantastic tee to green golf but could not buy a putt in her final round. All three Ozzie women made the cut with Madison Hinson-Tolchard holding her breathe as she holed a birdie on 18 in her second round to make it through to the final round.

Smilla Soenderby 1st - €60,000

Kirsten Rudgeley T5 –€11,520

Amelia Garvey T21 - €5,153

Momoka Kobori T38 - €2,010

Justice Bosio T38 - €2,010

Madison Hinson-Tolchard T50 - €1,580

PGA Tour

Tournament: Cadillac Championship

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: Trump National Dural, Blue Monster Course

Purse: USD $20M

Ozzies in the field: Jason Day, Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott, Ryan Fox (NZ)

Cam Young is on fire as he gets his third win of 2026. It was a bit of a procession as Young won by six shots from Scottie Scheffler. The lack of competition coming at Young made the final round a little lacklustre but that should not take away from Young’s stellar play. Even a self-imposed penalty on his second hole for causing his ball to move after grounding his club couldn’t ruffle Young’s feathers.

Best of the Ozzies was Adam Scott who all but secures his 100th consecutive major start at the US Open with this T4 as that will solidify his OWGR ranking to no. 43 in the world. The top 60 as of 18 May are exempt into the tournament so the jump of eleven spots courtesy of this result should be enough for the evergreen Ozzie. The T4 finish came after a first round where Scott incurred a two shot penalty for playing the wrong ball. He shot 66 -64 on the weekend.

Alex Fitzpatrick proved he was worthy of his Tour card won at last week’s Zurich Classic. Fitzpatrick finished a highly credible T9.

Cameron Young 1st – USD $3.6M

Adam Scott T4 - $826,666

Min Woo Lee T18 - $260,600

Ryan Fox (NZ) T30 - $114,625

Jason Day T38 - $72,181

PGA Champions Tour

Tournament: Regions Tradition

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: Greystone Golf and Country Club, Birmingham Alabama

Purse: USD $2.6M

Ozzies in the field: Steve Alker (NZ), Steve Allan, Stuart Appleby, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Scott Hend, Rod Pampling, Cameron Percy, John Senden, Michael Wright

Stewart Cink made it two Majors in the space of three weeks by taking out the Regions Tradition this week. Cink won by three shots from Ozzie Scott Hend who must be one of the most travelled golfers in the game.

Stewart Cink 1sdt – USD $390,000

Scott Hend 2nd – $228,800

Steve Alker (NZ) T11 - $55,250

Cameron Percy T30 - $18,772

Steve Allen T39 - $12,480

Richard Green T51 – $7,020

Rod Pampling T54 - $5,720

Stuart Appleby T54 - $5,720

Greg Chalmers T59 - $4,550

Michael Wright T65 - $3,120

John Senden 75th - $1,612

DP World Tour

Tournament: Turkish Airlines Open

Dates: 30 April – 1 May

Course: National Golf Course, Belek Türkiye

Purse: USD $2.275M

Ozzies in the field: Jason Scrivener, David Micheluzzie, Ryan Peake, Anthony Quayle, Connor McKinney, Jack Buchanan, Dan Hillier (NZ), Kazuma Kobori (NZ), Elvis Smylie

After thirteen years and seventy starts on the DP Word Tour Mikael Lindberg has earned his maiden win and a start in the US PGA as a bonus. Combined with his second place last week the win catapults Lindberg to the top of the Asian Swing points which gets him a bonus USD $200,00. The three top finishers on the Asian Swing, Lindberg, Bernd Weisberger and Jordan Gumberg all earn a start at Aronimink for the US PGA in 2 weeks.

The highest finishing Ozzie Elvis Smylie at T38. With all the that is happening at LIV Golf we might be seeing a lot more of Smylie on the DP World Tour soon. Kiwi Kazuma Kobori had a good week finishing at T13. Kobori was looking like he might have a better tournament than this result going into the weekend in the top five but could not get firing on the weekend. David Micheluzzi made the cut and earned valuable OOM points so hopefully this is the start or a resurgence for him. Surprising missed cuts for Jason Scrivener, Anthony Quayle, and Kiwi Dan Hillier.

Mikael Lindberg 1st - €398,799

Kazuma Kobori T13 - €34,578

Elvis Smylie T37 - €14,799

David Micheluzzi T65 - €5,160

Jack Buchanan MC

Connor McKinney MC

Anthony Quayle MC

Jason Scrivener MC

Daniel Hillier (NZ) MC

Ryan Peake MC

Asian Tour

Tournament: GS Caltex Maekyung Open

Dates: 30 April – 1 May

Course: Namseoul Country Club, Korea

Purse: KRW 1,300,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Kevin Yuan, Jed Morgan, Cory Crawford, Justin Warren, Nick Voke (NZ), Jack Thompson, Junseok Lee, Denzel Ierema (NZ), Maverick Antcliff, Danny Lee (NZ)

Perhaps the spiciest story of the golfing week occurred in the third round of this tournament. Inhoi Hur’s drive on the seventh hole appeared to go out of bounds. Hur hit a provisional. A spotter found the original ball and believing it was out of bounds handed it to another player’s caddie. Chaos erupted when spectators who appeared to be fans of Hur claimed the original ball was in bounds. Rules officials came and determined that Hur could play his provisional without penalty.

On the final day Hur looked like he might win the tournament narrowly missing a birdie putt on the final hole which would have seen him take the tournament lead.

Unsurprisingly that decision had come under review and after interviewing players and caddies it was deem that Hur would indeed incur the standard penalty of stroke and distance for his out of bounds ball. When Hur went to sign his card for his final round officials informed him of the penalty for his previous day’s round and he finished third.

That controversy somewhat overshadowed the win by Korea’s Minhyuk Song who overcame his compatriot Mingyu Cho on the first sudden death playoff hole.

Minhyuk Song 1st – ₩211,565

Nick Voke (NZ) T19 – ₩10,376

Danny Lee (NZ) T36 ₩6,241

Daniel Ieremia (NZ) MC

Kevin Yuan MC

Maverick Antcliff MC
Jack Thompson MC

Jed Morgan MC

Junseok Lee MC

Japanese Tour

Tournament: The Crowns

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: Nagoya Golf Club, Wago Course

Purse: ¥110,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Brad Kennedy, Michael Hendry (NZ)

A good result for Kiwi Michael Hendry who finished T16 with Brad Kennedy missing the cut.

Mikumu Horikawa 1st -¥22,000,000

Michael Hendry (NZ) T16 – ¥1,622,500

Brad Kennedy MC

JLPGA

Tournament: NTT docomo Business Ladies

Dates: 30 April – 3 May

Course: Hamano GC, Chiba

Purse: 120,000,000 Yen

Ozzies in the field: Lion Higo

In a rain shortened event Nana Suganuma won by five shots over Yuna Araki. Lion Higo missed another cut.

Nan Suganuma 1st – ¥16,200,000

Lion Higo MC