Rory McIlroy says Australia has been “starved” of top-level golf ahead of his bid for a second Stonehaven Cup this week at Royal Melbourne.
The Masters champion is the headline name in the Sandbelt after committing to this year’s Australian Open and 2026’s championship at Kingston Heath.
McIlroy is making his first Australian Open appearance since 2014
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“I just think the quality of the golf down here, the quality of the players that have come from here.
“You look at an event like LIV in Adelaide and the people that come out to that event and how excited they are that some of the top players in the world are down here playing, it just feels like this country is starved of top-level golf.
“A market like this with amazing fans and the history that it does have probably deserves more of a consistency of big players and big tournaments.
“This tournament in particular because of the history, because of the tradition, deserves to be a standalone tournament, a week on its own, and hopefully one day they could put together a schedule where the biggest and best tournaments in the world and the oldest and the ones with the most heritage can be elevated.”
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