31 Mar 2025
NSW Regional Open Qualifying Series Returns in 2025
Australia's best professional and elite amateur golfers will test their skills on some of our State's best regional courses, with dates and venues confirmed for six NSW Regional Open Qualifying tournaments in 2025.
With the Ford NSW Open Championship planned for mid-November, the six $50,000 lead-in events will attract competitors from across Australasia.
In addition to the lucrative purses at each event, three spots in the Championship are also up for grabs for the highest placegetters not already exempt into the November field.
With free entry to each venue and the chance to walk the fairways with the players, spectators can witness the sport's future stars in action up close.
The venues and dates for the six Regional Open Qualifying Tournaments are:
- Teven Valley Golf Course, 24 - 26 July, 2025
- Lismore Golf Club, 27 - 29 July, 2025
- South West Rocks Country Club, 30 July - 1 August, 2025
- Coffs Harbour Golf Club, 4 - 6 August, 2025
- Catalina Club, Batemans Bay, 17 - 19 September 2025
- Queanbeyan Golf Club, 21 - 23 September 2025
Olivia Wilson, General Manager – Golf at Golf NSW, said the Regional Open Qualifying Series events were perfect for an aspiring professional or elite amateur to kick-start their 2025/26 Australian Summer of Golf.
"The series, as it has done in recent years, can really help a future star of our sport get to the next level," Ms Wilson said. "With a guaranteed place in the $800,000 Ford NSW Open, players will be aiming to lock up their spot in the NSW Open quickly."
Several players have put the qualifying spot to good use in past years by vaulting themselves into the sporting spotlight over the Australian summer. None more so than Corey Lamb, who parlayed his qualification last year at Queanbeyan into a runner-up finish at the 2024 NSW Open behind eventual winner, Ripper GC star Lucas Herbert.
"Corey Lamb is a great example of what you can achieve via the Qualifying series," Ms Wilson added.
Graeme Phillipson, Chief Operating Officer at Golf NSW, said the tournaments were a welcome financial injection into the communities surrounding the host venues.
"The Regional Open Qualifying Series boosts the host clubs and surrounding towns. The players need somewhere to stay and places to eat & drink, so the visitor economy at each location does benefit, Mr Phillipson said.
The 2025 FORD NSW Open and the NSW Open Regional Qualifying Series are proudly supported by the NSW Government's tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.
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