DP World Tour

Tournament: Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Real Club de Golf El Prat, Barcelona

Purse: USD $2.75M

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

The DP World Tour moves back to its roots with the start of the European Swing in Spain. This swing is six tournaments across Spain, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany.

This part of the DP World Tour will be interrupted twice by Majors, firstly the US PGA and then the US Open. The Majors do not count toward individual Swing points.

This week is another opportunity for our Ozzies, particularly, McKinney and Peake to make a cut and earn some points.

LPGA

Tournament: Mizuho Americas Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Mountain Ridge Country Club, West Caldwell, NJ

Purse: USD $3.25M

Ozzies in the field: Hannah Green, Grace Kim, Steph Kyriacou, Cassie Porter, Robyn Choi, Karis Davidson, Gabbi Ruffels, Lydia Ko (NZ)

Mountain Ridge CC is a new course for the fourth running of this tournament. The previous three events were at Liberty National GC.

World No. two, Jeeno Thitikul is back to defend her crown and she is joined by 22 of the top 25 of the world’s best. Only Nelly Korda, Minjee Lee and Hyojoo Kim are missing from the top twenty five.

The tournament also fosters junior players and 24 players from the American Junior Golf Association will tee it up with the pros in their own Stableford tournament.

Tournament host Michelle Wie West is entered to play and will compete for the first time since the 2023 US Open.

Good to see most of our Ozzies back on the fairway this week as many of them skipped Mexico.

EPSON TOUR

Tournament: Reliance Matrix Championship presented by Epson

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Spanish Trail CC, Las Vegas NV

Purse: USD $250,000

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

LET

Tournament: US Women’s Open Qualifier

Dates: 11 May

Course: Buckinghamshire GC

Purse:

Ozzies in the field: Whitney Hillier, Amelia Garvey (NZ)

Lots of LET players are entered into this qualifier for the US Women’s Open, including Cara Gainer, Allesandra Fanali, Lydia Hall, Meghan MacLaren, OOM leader Agathe Laisne, the Metraux twins Kim and Morgane, and last week’s winner Smilla Soenderby.

The number of spots to advance is determined by the field size and usually varies from 2-5. The exact number will be advised closer to the date. With only 65 entries it is likely to be only two players who qualify.

PGA Tour

Tournament: Truist Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Quail Hollow, Charlotte NC

Purse: USD $20M

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

Rory is in but Scottie is out. It seems that signature events used to be special but with the third one in a four week stretch the lustre comes off it slightly. We are also seeing the top players pick and choose which of these top tier events they play and that seems to go against the theory that these tournaments would always have the best fields.

PGA Tour

Tournament: ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Dune Golf and Beach Club, Myrtle Beach SC

Purse: USD $4.0M

Ozzies in the field: Cam Davis, Karl Vilips

At least there is an opposition field event this week for those not cementing their place in the top 100 at Quail Hollow. Cam Davis is having a horror year and needs to just make a few cuts to get things rolling.

PGA Champions Tour

Tournament: Insperity Invitational

Dates: 8-10 May

Course: The Woodlands Country Club, Heuston TX

Purse: USD $3.0M

Ozzies in the field: Michael Wright, Rod Pampling, Mark Hensby, Stuart Appleby, Brendan Jones, Greg Chalmers, Richard Green, Steve Allan, Steve Alker (NZ), John Senden (alt)

The old guys are going around for the fourth week in a row. The physios and chiros will be earning their money this week. Stewart Cink is the defending champion and given he has won 50% of this year’s tournaments he will be at short odds to defend the title.

Hotel Planner Tour

Tournament: Italian Challenge Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Golf Nazionale, Viterbo, Italy

Purse: €300,000

Ozzies in the field: Sam Jones (NZ), Danny List (NZ)

The hotelplanner Tour finally resumes after a number of tournaments scheduled for the middle east had to be cancelled as a result of the turbulence in that area.

Great to see Englishman Chris Wood back on the tour after he topped the OOM on the Mena Tour.

Asian Tour

Tournament: Taiwan Glass Taifong Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Taifong Golf Club, Chinese Taipei

Purse: USD $500,000

Ozzies in the field: Cameron John, Kevin Yuan, Maverick Antcliff, Denzel Ierema, Scott Hend, Nick Voke (NZ), Harrison Crowe, Will Florimo, Brett Rankin, Justin Warren

Cameron John gets a start courtesy of his top five finish last outing and he coincidentally is the highest ranked player in the field.

JLPGA

Tournament: World Ladies Championship Salonpas Cup

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Ibaraki GC, West Course, Ibaraki

Purse: ¥150,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Lion Higo

KLPGA

Tournament: 2026 NH Investment & Securities Ladies Championship

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Suwon

Purse: ₩1,000,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Claire Shin

Sunshine Tour

Tournament: FBC ZIM Open

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Royal Harare Golf Club

Purse: R 3,000,000

Ozzies in the field: Austin Batista

LIV Golf

Tournament: LIV Golf Virginia

Dates: 7-10 May

Course: Trump National Golf Club, Washington D.C.

Purse: USD $30M

Ozzies in the field: Ripper GC: Cam Smith, Marc Leishman, Lucas Herbert, Elvis Smylie

Amateur Tournaments

Australian Interstate Teams

The best amateurs from six Australian states will contest the 2026 Australian Interstate Teams at Glenelg Golf Club.

Teams:

Victoria

Men: Hamish Farquharson, Abel Eduard, Max Moring, Ben Stevens, Bailey Goodall

Women: Jazy Roberts, Amelia Harris, Fuyu Yang, Jessie Yun, Seabil Leong

Queensland

Men: Billy Dowling, Chase Oberle, Wesley Hinton, Harrison Gomez, Taylor Barr

Women: Alicia Ludi, Grace Rho, Ionna Muir, Allegra De Guzman, Elly Peterson

South Australia

Men: Kade Bryant, Jack Leonard, Malachy Marshall, Frank Vucic, Alan Xin

Women: Raegan Denton, Stephanie Keylock, Elyse Kozlovic, Zoe Manton, Amelia Whinney

Tasmania

Men: Elijah Monaghan, Mitch Van Noord, Jonty Lunson, Dylan Backhouse, Xavier Nicholls

Women: Kalynda Cowen, Lorissa Dobson, Jessie Richmond, Billie Richmond, Kirri Piper

Western Australia

Men: George Barclay, Spencer Harrison, Adam Baillie, Josiah Edwards, Nate Johnson

Women: Katie Seol, Valerie Khuu, Amanda Gan, Amie Phobubpa, Kortni Houston

New South Wales

Men: Jye Halls, Kayun Mudadana, Blake Phillips, Coby Carruthers, Josh Fuller

Women: Ella Scaysbrook, Rachel Lee, Camilla Kim, Lara Thomsen, Charlotte Perkin