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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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