No 7 for Karrie

THAT’S what they call an emphatic win. Karrie Webb has shot a course record 61 to claim her 7th Australian Ladies Masters by six strokes at Royal Pines.

No 7 for Karrie
Laura Davies looking ominous at the Australian Women’s Open

Laura Davies looking ominous at the Australian Women’s Open

11 March 2010

DEFENDING champion Laura Davies is looking ominous after carding a first round five under 68 to lead the Handa Women’s Australian Open at Melbourne’s Commonwealth Golf Course. Davies holed a 30 foot birdie putt on her final hole to take a two shot lead over the field. In second place were Coonabarabran’s Rebecca Flood, Victorian amateur Alison [...]

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Pampling gives thumbs up to PGA Championship staying at Coolum

Pampling gives thumbs up to PGA Championship staying at Coolum

09 March 2010

POPULAR Australian golfer Rod Pampling was one of those giving the thumbs up to the announcement today that the Australian PGA Championship will be staying at its Coolum home for the foreseeable future. Pampling was on the grounds of Brisbane’s Parliament House as a player representative to hear that an agreement including the PGA of Australia, [...]

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Couples wins second Champions Tour title

Couples wins second Champions Tour title

08 March 2010

AMERICAN Fred Couples has won his second straight Champions Tour title with Australia’s Peter Senior again in the top 15. Couples shot a final round six under 65 for a four stroke victory in the Toshiba Classic at the Newport Beach Country Club in California whilst a five birdie front nine helped Senior to a 67. Both [...]

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Sams a winner at home

Sams a winner at home

05 March 2010

PORT MACQUARIE local Brian Sams has won the 2010 NSW Senior Amateur Championship with three rounds of consistent golf at his home club. The long time Port Macquarie Golf Club member finished with a 54 hole total of 218, just five over par. With the extra expectation, local knowledge isn’t always what it is cracked up to be [...]

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Hull defending her Ladies Masters crown

Hull defending her Ladies Masters crown

04 March 2010

TWO weeks of top class women’s golf is off to a fine start at the ANZ  Ladies Masters on the Gold Coast with defending champion Katherine Hull just one stroke behind the leader at the Royal Pines Resort. Leading the top class international field is 23 year old rookie American Amanda Blumenherst, who fired an opening [...]

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Handle the pressure with an effective pre shot routine

Handle the pressure with an effective pre shot routine

02 March 2010

HUNTER MAHAN, who collecting his second US PGA Tour title with a win at the Phoenix Open this week, credits a lot of his success to Australian born sports psychologist Neale Smith. Mahan says after his second placing at the 2002 US Amateur he always knew he had the game to win on the tour but [...]

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Titleist offers “two new ways to go low”

Titleist offers “two new ways to go low”

26 February 2010

TITLEIST has released the latest offerings in its mid price NXT range saying the new NXT Tour and NXT golf balls further advance the company’s technology leadership. Titleist says the new multi-layer NXT Tour and new solid technology NXT deliver higher performance and longer distance, further establishing each model as benchmarks in their respective categories. “Based upon [...]

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They said Gary Player would never last

They said Gary Player would never last

26 February 2010

THE irrepressible Gary Player talks about longevity in golf and also weighs into the debate about the length of some modern golf courses in the latest edition of a new Australian based magazine that focuses on the golf industry. And when a 74 year old with 164 professional wins starts talking about durability in golf you [...]

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Harwood shoots a course record to steal the Kiwi’s newest event

Harwood shoots a course record to steal the Kiwi’s newest event

26 February 2010

A COURSE RECORD 66 during the second round of the inaugural Handa New Zealand Senior Masters has helped Victorian Mike Harwood continue his winning ways on the over 50’s professional golf circuits. The reigning European Seniors Tour Rookie of the Year followed up his win in Tasmania earlier in the month with an emphatic 10 [...]

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Tiger Woods: not appearing on a golf course anytime soon

Tiger Woods: not appearing on a golf course anytime soon

23 February 2010

WE’VE stated before that our interest in Tiger Woods is as a golfer; we’ll leave all the personal morality judgements and critiques of the authenticity or otherwise of his highly publicised public apology to others. What we are interested  in is when he plans to return to competitive golf. Our two recent stories on that subject, firstly [...]

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