Round 2 Highlights | 2025 ISPS HANDA Australian Open

The second round of the 2025 ISPS HANDA Australian Open did not disappoint with Lucas Herbert and Elvis Smylie putting on a show for the fans at Kingston Heath.


The DP World Tour's Opening Swing stays in Australia this week as the Kingston Heath Golf Club and The Victoria Golf Club host the ISPS HANDA Australian Open. Joaquin Niemann returns to defend the title he won 12 months ago. He’s been inconsistent this year in major championships with a highest finish of 22T at the Masters. But The Chilean hit form at the end of the season with a 9T finish at the Olympics, 4T at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic and 7T at the DP World Tour Championship. Cam Smith will also be in the field this week. He played well for a 6T finish at the Masters in April but struggled to continue this form finishing 133T at the Open Championship, 32T at the U.S Open and 63T at the PGA Championship. Smith claimed second place last week at the Australian PGA Championship. Min Woo Lee will also fancy his chances this week. He finished 15T last week and has been in good form recently, claiming consecutive top 25s at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and DP World Championship and missing just two cuts since the Masters - where he also had a top 25. Others to look out for are Victor Perez, Marc Leishman and Lucas Herbert.

[CraigSmall-sz]

Shocking stuff. The Kayo telecast is also applauding

[patrickmegan]

Jaysus, these "highlights" are all over the shop. Is this some primary school media project?

[Sanks]

“An eagle putt coming up “ what happened to the putting?

[craigtucker]

What’s happened to Ozzie media, terrible highlights

[pamazat]

Are these the Australian Open highlights? WTF

[thishex]

Watching these highlights, there are way too many instances where you don't even know who's hitting. The player's name is not highlighted on the scoreboard or mentioned by the commentators.

[aaronkerr]

Worst highlights ever! 😂 why show Perez for most of it?

[hedonismunderstands]

herbert started eagle - birdie. why didn't we see the eagle? and this is footage from the future - the 2025 open!

[onthisrock]

Embarrassing is the mediocre quality of our national open

[lowal]

Wenyi Ding highlights? Man... No wonder noone bothers to attend or watch the Australian events or the highlights...

[gbtsmms]

Is Victor Perez trailing to be leader? Why keep showing him when there are so many more other real highlights

[derekwhyle]

Used to really enjoy watching the Aussie tournaments as we go into winter in the UK but the Open is now a confused mess for a TV fan. Coverage swapping from girls to guys every 5 minutes and many players not getting any coverage. Sort it guys please.

[andrewlevy]

Can't watch it, its making my head spin....

[goldenbear]

Golf highlights must be the most boring sports program to be shown. You know every twenty yard put is going to drop, every 150 yard pitch shot is going to spin back to two feet from the flag. Why not show occasionally someone taking three to get out of a bunker, or hitting it in the lake or stuffing a short chip shot - like the rest of us!

[joshuaross]

Why all the Victor perez highlights? the poor guy can barely hit a ball no one wants to see that

[josephwirtz]

You’re not helping promote your overall product with this low quality video.

[andrewlevy]

The coverage is terrible. The media host is trying to juggle 6 balls in the air, no context if I'm trying to watch the men's comp, not even covering the leaders, half the time we catch up with them putting after having missed their shots to the hole, then back over to The Victoria club, shift between the women, then all abilities and maybe, just maybe we might get back to the Men's comp. The media keep constantly producing 'Highlights' through holes because we've missed everything that's happening whilst they're going everywhere but covering the tournament...terrible. this is Woke coverage gone awry....terrible, terrible, terrible.

[ivanb]

realise these "highlights" are only from the live broadcast which did not start until lunchtime, but ... whoa .. I used to think Aussies knew how to broadcast sport.
what rubbish.
then watched the afternoon of the next day Saturday (it was wet !) and the coverage was even worse, even knowing those in contention should be clustered towards the tail of the field.
This obsession with "featured groups" is code for "doing it on the cheap" as it excludes so much that is happening out on the course. Producer / editors should be ashamed of themselves.

[thomasbrauner]

Terrible to watch. No info about shots etc. Learn your job better

[aussiegolfer]

This has to be the worst golf highlights I have ever seen, and I’m sorry but this ladies commentary is so bad as well .