Pacific Dunes may only be in its youth, but the outstanding Port Stephens venue has already established itself as having one of New South Wales’ finest and fiercest tests of golf.

Name: Elizabeth Chewter
Home Club: Scarborough Ladies
Qualifying Grade: Ladies
Qualifying Score: 105,059

Name: Gerard Bradley
Home Club: Wagga Wagga Country Club
Qualifying Grade: C Grade
Qualifying Score: 112,375

Perhaps destiny played a role in Genesis Golf Link Cup Week 10 C Grade third placegetter Margaret Smith taking up the game.

Sometime shortly before 7am on November 15 the first of 156 competitors will step to the tee and strike the opening shot of the 2018 Australian Open.

With under two months until the top 24 golfers from the 2018 Genesis Golf Link Cup take on Concord Golf Club, here is a preview of what the National Finalists will get to experience. 

Name: Jared Taylor
Home Club: Wantima Country Club
Qualifying Grade: B Grade
Qualifying Score: 118,635

Name: Lea Shapiera
Home Club: Wakehurst Golf Club
Qualifying Grade: A Grade
Qualifying Score: 104,041

If you get upset about playing badly then you’re doing it all wrong, says Genesis Golf Link Cup Week 9 B Grade winner Garry Christian.

It’s a long way from the towering native gums of Moe Golf Club to Sanctuary Cove and it’s a journey Kathy Borg was very pleased to make.

Kathy was the lucky winner of the Series One Genesis Quiz and won an all expenses paid, four-day trip for two people to the Gold Coast.