The latest Australian golf news
MAYBE there’s something in the water which seemingly threatens almost every shot at the famous Tournament Players Club in Sawgrass, Florida. Or maybe it just suits the ‘eye’ of the Aussies who have done so well there. Now young Sydneysider Jeffrey Guan has thrust his name up there beside Cameron Smith as a 2022 winner […]
EXCITEMENT is building for the 18th edition of the prestigious Keperra Bowl to be played at the picturesque Keperra Country Golf Club in Brisbane from October 11-14. The 72-hole Keperra Bowl is a Golf Australia Order of Merit and R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking Event. The event always attracts the cream of the amateur crop […]
THE current year has truly provided the Australian golfing public with some outstanding performances on the US PGA Tour. Those performances have proven extremely fruitful for seven of the 13 players on the tour. Still, only two Australian players, world number two Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert, recorded victories. Smith won three times – the […]
FOR some observers of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, young Aussie Jediah Morgan is considered one of the players making up the numbers, but the Australian PGA champion is undeterred simply because he is laughing all the way to the bank. In five LIV events the mullet-wearing 22-year-old diehard Broncos fan has won more than […]
By Michael Davis ONE of the main people responsible for saving the Northcote Public Golf Course had no intention of gloating over his rivals. Spokesman for the Northcote Golf and Community Hub group, Bill Jennings, simply described the compromise voted on by the Darebin City Council as a victory for common sense. “Common sense has […]
THEY’RE golf’s ultimate power couple. The only problem is their unabashed love of sport actually keeps them off the golf course, rather than on it. And despite golf being one of their great loves, life does come first. Oh, and cricket as well. In case you’re still guessing, I am referring to a couple of […]
THE excited chatter among members at Victoria’s Patterson River Golf Club (PRGC) continues to grow as they settle into the club’s newly renovated 19th hole. PRGC membership and operations manager Jessica Gagliardi said the club’s directors had identified that the previous bistro was a little tired. So, after consultation with its membership base, the club […]
CAROLYN Jones won’t ever forget the first time she met her future husband. She was at school in Grafton (NSW) in the mid-1950s when ‘new boy’ Peter Jones turned up after his dad, a policeman, was transferred to the town. “I first met Peter at school in Grafton,” Carolyn recalled. “When I was about 14 […]
By Peter Owen KAI Komulainen, the gifted Gold Coast youngster with the classic golf swing, stood on the 10th tee in the final round of the world’s biggest international junior tournament and, for a brief few seconds, allowed himself to think about winning. He’d just eagled the par-5 ninth hole at California’s famous Torrey Pines […]
THERE was some serious golf played and loads of fun and laughter at the Champions of the Murray final played at Tocumwal Golf and Bowls Club. More than 50 finalists from the qualifying partner clubs took part in the final with Cobram Barooga Golf Club’s Carolyn Huggins and Margaret Rhode edging out Kristine Geary and […]
By Peter Owen IF the goal was to attract visiting golfers to Queensland during the quieter winter period, then this year’s Sunshine Coast Winter Classic ticked all the boxes. A sellout field turned up to play four of the region’s premier golf courses in a 72-hole amateur tournament aimed at club golfers. Players travelled from […]
FORMER television personality and politician, Derryn Hinch, would often end a story with the words, “shame, shame, shame” after someone had been wronged. Well, shame on the Royal and Ancient Golf Club for barring Greg Norman, a two-time Open Championship winner, from attending the traditional champions’ dinner at the 150th Open played at St Andrews. […]
By Peter Owen GRAEME Miller, the founder and president of the Invincibles Sunshine Coast Junior Golf Tour, remembers when Cameron Smith, a skinny 10-year-old with a handicap that matched his age, turned up for his first junior event. “He was a delightful young fellow,” Miller recalls. “He was always thinking of others, always helping – […]
Karrie Webb is back in the winner’s circle. The seven-time major champion held off Annika Sorenstam to win the Senior LPGA Championship and claim her first senior title. Webb, 47, fired a five-under par 67 in the final round for a four-shot victory at Salina Country Club. “It’s been a long time since I’ve had […]
Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club’s The Palms golf course will embark on an enhancement plan which will see further upgrades since its redesign was completed just over a decade ago. Paul Mogford and Neil Crafter of Crafter + Mogford Architects, who have Melbourne’s renowned Metropolitan Golf Course and Barwon Heads Golf Course to their […]
CAMERON Smith joined a small but elite group of Aussies to win the British Open Championship when he rode a red-hot putter to victory to win the 150thBritish Open at the Home of Golf St Andrews. Smith gave Irish hero Rory McIlroy and young Norwegian Victor Hovland a start and a beating as he careered […]
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By Peter Owen THEY’RE a devoted bunch, these hickory golfers. They see beauty in rusty old golf clubs that most of us would consign to the scrap heap. And they readily take responsibility for upholding the traditions and behaviours that have made golf such a special game. So they happily cop the jibes that greet […]
DOES Central Queensland golfer Trevor Tougher know the golf course at Yeppoon Golf Club like the back of his hand? You bet he does! After all, he is the club’s superintendent and last month won his umpteenth Men’s Open Championship when he fired rounds of 66-67 for a 133 total – nine-under par. “I’m not […]
By Peter Owen FOR the past eight years former Nambour pro Darrell Dalton has been conducting weekly golf clinics for intellectually handicapped people on the Sunshine Coast. What’s more, he and his wife Michelle operate a charity pro shop in downtown Nambour, raising funds through the sale of golf gear – much of it donated […]
A SURVEY conducted prior to the explosive golf war between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has golf as the sport that amasses the most positive news coverage. Researchers at online ticket sales website livefootballtickets.com analysed 45,000 sports news articles over the past nine years (2013-2022) to find out which sporting codes received the best […]
THREE-TIME major winner and former European Ryder Cup team captain Padraig Harrington has shifted his focus now that he’s 50 years old and eligible to play on the PGA Tour Champions. The Irishman has made his presence felt on the PGA Tour Champions finishing tied for second at last month’s Rapiscan Systems Classic behind Kiwi […]
MARC Leishman will be the first to tell you that when it comes to the majors, the US Masters and The Open are the two that suit his game best. The 38-year-old owns three top-10s in the Masters and three top-6s in The Open. At press time, he still did not have a top-10 in […]
WEST Australian star Minjee Lee cruised to a four-shot victory at last month’s US Women’s Open, taming the stunning Pine Needles course in North Carolina and taking home an astonishing US$1.8m (AUD$2.5m) prize cheque. Apart from claiming the largest ever prizemoney cheque ever handed out in the history of women’s golf, Minjee’s win was also […]
PLAYING off a handicap of seven, John Deere’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, Luke Chandler, knows the satisfaction golf brings to those who play it and what it takes to build and maintain a good course. “I love the challenge (of golf),” Mr Chandler said. “The feeling that you can continue to grow […]
At a historic night on Wednesday 8th June, the Huntingdale Golf Club members, by an overwhelming majority, voted in favour to proceed with the Club’s new OCM Master Plan. The delivery of the Master Plan and the partnership with the Cranbourne Country Club will ensure the future sustainability of the Huntingdale Golf Club. The innovative […]
By Rob Willis EWAN Porter knows a bit about golfing talent. A junior prodigy with a +4 handicap before turning professional in his teens, Porter had an abundance of it. Twice a winner on the US Nationwide Tour, qualified for three Open Championships, long off the tee and with the fearless attitude needed to compete […]
THE horrendous summer weather experienced on the east coast of Australia in early 2022 has of course been devastating for so many people. There are so many families who have lost their houses and possessions. The scenes we witnessed from Lismore and Woodburn at the height of the two separate floods were just heartbreaking for […]
OCTOGENERIAN ACT leftie Ray Wright, for the second time, has achieved the feat of shooting his age. The 82-year-old achieved the feat in a Wednesday members’ competition at his home club RMC, Canberra. According to Ray, it should have been the third time, but on a previous attempt he missed by a shot after three-putting […]
LIVING Choice staff members, deposit holders, clients and guests celebrated another milestone in the creation of Living Choice Parkwood at a ground-breaking ceremony held at The Club at Parkwood Village. Living Choice, which owns 10 operating retirement villages in three states, will build its first Gold Coast village overlooking the Parkwood Golf Club on the […]
By Peter Owen IONNA Muir, the outstanding 14-year-old who owns the lowest handicap of any junior player on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has just won Headland’s women’s club championship – by a staggering 32 strokes. The workaholic young star, who says she practices for three hours a day, even when she’s playing, is a member of […]
By TONY DURKIN THE recent floods may have inundated much of The Brisbane Golf Club course, but damage – and washed-up debris – was scant when compared to recent naturaldisasters. As a result, the course was closed for only 15 days in late February-early March while the clean-up took place, and is now back in […]
By Michael Davis CORELLAS are the nemesis of many turf managers. But one Victorian superintendent has literally taken the battle to the skies in a novel approach to ridding his course of the feathered scourge. Over the past few months the greens and surrounds at Ballarat Golf Club, an hour west of Melbourne, have been […]
By Michael Davis AN extremely talented 12-year-old from country Victoria has become the youngest player to win the Ladies’ Championship at Commonwealth Golf Club. But that’s only part of Olive Spitty’s story. She stepped out in the first round of the senior pennant season and won her match 3&1 against the Heritage Golf and Country […]
WOMEN have been recognised as a powerhouse at the Novotel Vines Resort in Western Australia with the entire golf department made up of dynamic females, which is unusual in a traditionally male-dominated sport. Believed to be the only all-female golf team in Australia, the resort is also one of the few clubs with equal playing […]
By Rob Willis Club-fitting: Edition 1 – Mizuno TECHNOLOGY! Someone of my vintage cringes just a little at the thought of the word. Yes, I can work the remote and find Netflix, Stan and Kayo, turn on a computer, send an email, maybe fill out an Excel spreadsheet, even deal with a PowerPoint presentation if […]
JACK Newton probably should have won at least two major championships. He was beaten in an 18-hole playoff for the 1975 British Open by the great Tom Watson and also finished second in the 1980 US Masters behind another great in Seve Ballesteros. Amazingly, that will not be how Jack Newton will be remembered. His […]
SEVENTY-FIVE years ago Jim Ferrier got the ball rolling for Australia at the US PGA Championship when he defeated American Chick Harbert 2&1in the final played at Plum Hollow Golf Club in Michigan. For the first 41 years (1916-1957) the tournament was a matchplay contest. Since Ferrier’s famous victory in 1947, four other Aussies have […]
THREE-TIME Masters champion Sir Nick Faldo knows Augusta National like the back of his hand. He played in 23 Masters over his career and golf fans likely remember him most at Augusta when he beat Greg Norman on that unfortunate Sunday in 1996. The 64-year-old, who will commentate on his 16th Masters this month, recently […]
FORMER Masters champion Adam Scott and fellow Aussie Marc Leishman have turned their attention to this month’s Masters at Augusta National from April 7-10. The pair sat down with GARRETT JOHNSTON to answer a range of questions. Garrett Johnston: The Masters is weeks away. When do you start thinking about the year’s first major and […]
