[Photo:Four-time Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia winner Dimi Papadatos with the Joe Kirkwood Cup.]<\/p>\n
The Kirkwood Cup has completed its 1,200-kilometre journey from Queensland to Sydney to take its place at The Lakes Golf Club in preparation for the 2026 BMW Australian PGA Championship to be held November 26-29.<\/p>\n
The iconic BMW Australian PGA Championship trophy visited 15\u00a0golf clubs between Coolangatta and the Central Coast before its final trip into Sydney on Saturday, giving golf fans in regional centres the chance to get up close and personal with one of Australian golf\u2019s most treasured pieces of silverware.<\/p>\n
Across its six-day journey, the Kirkwood Cup was taken to the following golf clubs:\u00a0Coolangatta and Tweed Heads Golf Club,\u00a0Murwillumbah Golf Club,\u00a0Ocean Shores Country Club,\u00a0Byron Bay Golf Club,\u00a0Ballina Golf and Sports Club,\u00a0Yamba Golf and Country Club,\u00a0Grafton District Golf Club,\u00a0Coffs Harbour Golf Club,\u00a0Bonville Golf Resort,\u00a0Crescent Head Country Club,\u00a0Port Macquarie Golf Club,\u00a0Newcastle Golf Club,\u00a0Waratah Golf Club,\u00a0Magenta Shores Golf and Country Club and\u00a0Shelly Beach Golf Club before being handed over at\u00a0The Lakes Golf Club.<\/p>\n
There were also photo opportunities at some of New South Wales\u2019s most iconic tourist locations, including the Cape Byron Lighthouse, the Big Prawn at Ballina, Coffs Harbour\u2019s Big Banana and the Tacking Point Lighthouse at Port Macquarie.<\/p>\n
The Joe Kirkwood Cup dates to 1929, when Australian golf legend Joe Kirkwood Sr. donated the trophy for the inaugural Australian Professional Championship.<\/p>\n
Its list of winners includes major champions Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Cam Smith, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Geoff Ogilvy and Ian Baker-Finch.<\/p>\n
The BMW Australian PGA Championship will be played at The Lakes Golf Club from November 26-29, with a 156-player field competing for the $2.5 million purse.<\/p>\n
The event\u2019s headliners include Adam Scott, Cam Smith, Min Woo Lee, Lucas Herbert, Daniel Hillier and defending champion David Puig.<\/p>\n
The 2026 BMW Australian PGA Championship is supported by the New South Wales Government through Destination NSW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo:Four-time Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia winner Dimi Papadatos with the Joe Kirkwood Cup.] The Kirkwood Cup has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[115028,269287,269288,5904,269289,269290,101,269291,147570,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-australian-pga-championship","tag-bmw-australian-pga-championship","tag-challenger-pga-tour-of-australasia","tag-golf","tag-joe-kirkwood-cup","tag-pga-of-australia","tag-sports","tag-the-lakes-golf-club","tag-trophy-tour","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}