What's on This Week - Week 14

Augusta National Women's Amateur

The Masters is not the only big event on at Augusta in April. The Augusta National Women's Amateur starts 1st April. The tournament gathers the top female amateurs in the world and has one of the premier women’s amateur tournaments on the calendar.

In this three round tournament all players play two rounds at Champions Retreat Golf Club and then the whole field has a practice day at Augusta. Following this practice day the thirty players and ties who made the 36 hole cut play the final round of competition at Augusta.

The winner gets a bunch of rewards as long as they remain an amateur. These include an invite back to this event for the next five years and, for one year, entry to the US Women’s Open, The AIG Women’s Open, The Chevron Championship, The Evian Championship and any USGA, R&A and PGA of America amateur championship.

Australia is represented by Reagon Denton who earned her invite courtesy of her WAGR ranking.

Ozziegolf’s pick for the week is Korean Soomin Oh who nearly won the Ford NSW Open earlier this year. An errant bogey on the closing hole cost Oh the lead but other than that she was a birdie machine on the final day.

LPGA & LET

Tournament: Aramco Championship

Dates: 2 – 5 April 2026

Course: Shadow Creek, Las Vegas, Nevada

Purse: USD $4.0M

Ozzies in the field: Minjee Lee, Hannah Green, Grace Kim, Steph Kyriacou, Cassie Porter, Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson, Gabbi Ruffels

The first of the co-sanctioned LPGA and LET Saudi events this is a massive opportunity for the LET players to not only mix it with the LPGA stars but a win here gets you on the LPGA.

This is the first time since 2017 that the top twenty ranked players in the world are teeing it up in the same tournament. Some of the pairings for the first two rounds are amazing: Korda, Korda Hull: Thitikul, Minjee Lee, Tan: Ko, Green, Hyo Joo Kim.

Lots of Ozzies in the field and Hannah Green has been on fire lately so hopefully that form carries into this tournament. Cassie Porter has also been firing and Kelsey Bennett is coming off a great run in Oz. Surprisingly Kirsten Rudgeley is sitting this one out.

Hard to go past the top five – Thitikul, Korda, Hull, Minjee & Yamashita but then you look at the next five and it’s Ko, Hyo Joo Kim, Woad, Hannah Green & Ruoining Yin.

This should be a fantastic tournament pitting the best of the Europeans against the best of the LPGA.

PGA Tour of Australasia

Tournament: Q School Final s

Stage Australia

Dates: 31 March – 3 April

Course: Sandhurst GC

Purse: AUD $25,000

Ozzies in the field:

The final stage of Q school in Oz. Contested over 72 holes with a cut after 54 holes to those within 10 shots of the final qualifying place i.e. P26. The top 26 and ties earn status for next seasons Australasian Tour.

The US tournament in July has a similar format however there are only 8 full spots available with a further 12 spots who get membership of the Tour but are not in an exempt category.

PGA Tour

Tournament: Valero Texas Open

Dates: 2 – 5 April

Course: TPC San Antonio, The Oaks Course

Purse: USD $9.8M

Ozzies in the field: Karl Vilips

The week before the Masters and most of the really big guns are sitting this one out. No Scottie, Rory, Fitzy, Cam Young, Xander, Rosie, Morikawa, Gotterup or Henly. Tommy Fleetwood at no four in the world is the highest ranked player in the field.

The only Ozzie playing this week is Karl Vilips.

Korn Ferry Tour

Tournament: Lecom Suncoast Classic

Dates: 2 – 5 April

Course: Lakewood National Golf Club Commander course

Purse: USD $1.0M

Ozzies in the field: Rhein Gibson

Asian Tour

Tournament: International Series Japan

Dates: 2 – 5 April

Course: Caledonian Golf Club

Purse: USD $2.0M

Ozzies in the field: Travis Smyth, Chris Wood, Cory Crawford, Cameron John, Wayde Ormsby, Kevin Yuan, Jack Thompson, Maverick Antcliff, Denziel Ierema (NZ), Scott Hend, Nick Voke (NZ), Justin Warren, Will Florimo, Harrison Crowe

A big bunch of Ozzies and Kiwis lining up for this event. A week out from the Masters and there are no LIV players in this field so it is a great opportunity for our Ozzie guys to make a name for themselves in an International Series tournament.

JLPGA

Tournament: Yamaha Ladies Open Katsuragi

Dates: 2 – 5 April

Course: Katsuragi GC, Yamana, Shizauoka

Purse: 1.0M Yen

Ozzies in the field: Lion Higo

KLPGA

Tournament: The Sienna Open

Dates: 2 – 5 April

Course: The Sienna Velluto

Purse: 1.0M KRW

Ozzies in the field: Claire Shin