[Picture: Asia-Pacific Amateur]<\/p>\n
Leading amateurs from 21 countries teed off on Tuesday in the first round at the 2026 Australian Master of the Amateurs Championship at Southern Golf Club.<\/p>\n
OTHER NEWS: MASSIVE fire at historic UK golf clubhouse draws 60 firefighters, public told to stay away<\/a><\/p>\n From Tuesday to Friday (January 6-9), a field of 171 players will compete for the coveted green jackets awarded to the men\u2019s and women\u2019s champions after 72 holes of strokeplay, with a 36-hole cut.<\/p>\n Follow the action throughout the week here:\u00a0Live Scoring<\/a><\/p>\n Competitors will face a stern test on Melbourne\u2019s famed Sandbelt, with forecast temperatures exceeding 40C adding to the challenge at Southern Golf Club.<\/p>\n One of Australia\u2019s leading amateurs Harry Takis isn\u2019t fazed by the conditions.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to it \u2013 I\u2019m from Queensland, so I\u2019m used to the hot weather,\u201d Takis said. \u201cIt should be a fun week.\u201d<\/p>\n After finishing third at last year\u2019s Australian Master of the Amateurs, Takis looms as one to watch following a strong 2025, highlighted by being the leading amateur at the Singapore Open and claiming victory at the Singapore Open Amateur Championship. He also finished fourth at the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Dubai.<\/a><\/p>\n The Australian Master of the Amateurs has long been proven a pathway to professional success.<\/p>\n Past champions including Jason Day (2006), David Micheluzzi (2018), Stephanie Kyriacou (2019), Sahith Theegala (2020) and Harrison Crowe (2022) have gone on to thrive on the professional stage, while the event\u2019s alumni also includes the likes of Rickie Fowler, Bryson DeChambeau, Marc Leishman and Ryan Fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Picture: Asia-Pacific Amateur] Leading amateurs from 21 countries teed off on Tuesday in the first round at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,210865,755,210866,210867,44,210868,85],"class_list":["post-394759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-master-of-the-amateurs","tag-golf","tag-harry-takis","tag-melbourne-sandbelt","tag-news","tag-southern-gc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}