{"id":725666,"date":"2026-06-09T18:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725666\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:05:08","slug":"pga-tour-signs-on-to-partner-with-australian-open-golf-tourney-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/725666\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour signs on to partner with Australian Open golf tourney for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Open golf tournament has signed a deal \u201cto partner with the PGA Tour for the first time\u201d with the 2027-2029 events, according to Dane Heverin of FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA. The tourney will \u201ccontinue to be co-sanctioned between the DP World Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia,\u201d and PGA Tour partnership will provide a \u201csignificant boost in prize money.\u201d The 2025 Australian Open was played for total purse of AU$2M (US$1.4M); those figures have been a \u201cproblem in attracting top talent to travel down under.\u201d Future purses for the tournament have yet to be confirmed, but the deal with the PGA Tour \u201cis set to help bridge the gap.\u201d Recent reports suggested that LIV Golf \u201chad tried to partner with the Australian Open and other national opens around the globe.\u201d However, the PGA Tour has also been \u201cexploring a more condensed schedule<\/a>, which would allow for its stars to play outside of the United States during the southern hemisphere summer.\u201d This collaboration between Golf Australia and the PGA Tour \u201cmay be the first domino to fall in that new structure that could potentially free up the game\u2019s biggest names\u201d (FOX SPORTS AUSTRALIA, 6\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n

CONTINUING TO WORK TOGETHER: THE ATHLETIC\u2019s Brody Miller cited a source as saying that the PGA Tour and DP World Tour \u201care meeting weekly to extend their \u2018strategic alliance\u2019\u201d that began in 2020. The partnership grew in 2022 with the PGA Tour \u201cowning 40 percent of the European tour\u2019s media rights arm while guaranteeing prize purses.\u201d It also includes \u201cpathways for 10 DP World Tour players to earn PGA Tour cards.\u201d The Australian Open deal is the \u201cfirst major indication\u201d of PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp teaming with DP World Tour CEO Guy Kinnings since taking over. It also could be a \u201csign of Rolapp\u2019s aggressiveness\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 6\/9<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Open golf tournament has signed a deal \u201cto partner with the PGA Tour for the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,3747,82],"class_list":["post-725666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}