Australian Senior Golfer

GOLFERS who regularly watch the US Golf Channel’s PGA Tour broadcasts will have seen the putting line they superimpose on greens to show how much break a player needs to hole their putts. It’s always amazing to see balls follow the line perfectly on big breaking putts to the centre of the hole. If you’ve [...]

Read the full story

PROBABLY one of the worst things you can do in golf is watch a video on a new golf swing concept immediately before you’re due to tee off in a competition. Even worse when you watch several videos, read instruction articles, and then a short time later find yourself standing over a ball on the [...]

Read the full story

MANY people will be aware of Ben Hogan’s classic “pane of glass” golf swing plane image. On the printed page it is not always easy to see exactly what he is saying and misunderstandings can arise. The following four and a half minute video uses more modern means to simply explain and demonstrate how to [...]

Read the full story

A COMMON swing flaw with senior golfers is that they tend to set up crouching too close to the ball, according to Bruce Green; Head Golf Professional at Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Green says many older golfers, including some of the senior tour pros, unconsciously start dropping their chins closer to the ball and this [...]

Read the full story

WITH Fred Couples ripping up the Champions Tour and proving how good the form was by leading the US Masters after the first round it is a good time to have a look at some analysis of his swing. The Couples swing is often described as “like butter”, “silky smooth” and the like– all the [...]

Read the full story

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 [...]

Read the full story

Read the full story

Jeffrey Mann over at the Perfect Golf Swing Review website has published a new “review paper” that he believes may be of particular interest to inflexible senior golfers. As we have reported before, Jeff is a retired doctor who for the past several years has devoted himself to analysing and detailing all aspects of the [...]

Read the full story

BEN CRENSHAW, for decades revered as one of golf’s best putters, has shared some simple putting tips with an emphasis on keeping it loose and natural. As a simple fix, Crenshaw says nine out of 10 golfers hold the putter too tightly. “Putting is fingers and hands and eyes and imagination,” he says in the [...]

Read the full story

QUESTION: In a stableford round Tom putted up just 50 cm short of the hole, he properly marked his ball, put the ball in his pocket and tended the flag for the other players. By accident when replacing the ball on the mark he substituted another ball and subsequently sunk the putt?

What is the ruling?

1. Tom is penalized two strokes and must replace the proper ball on the mark before putting out
2. Tom is penalized one stroke and must re-take the putt using the original ball
3. Tom is penalized two strokes and the putt counts

Read the full story