Australian Senior Golfer

BRITISH OPEN boss Peter Dawson has given a blunt warning to the BBC to sharpen up its golf coverage or risk losing the rights to the iconic event. Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, broke with established practice this week by airing his concerns about the Corporation while he was [...]

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WITH Valentine’s Day just over and thoughts of love still in the air – for some at least – the obvious questions is: What made you fall in love with golf? Was it love at first sight? Did it happen slowly over time or are you still trying to kid yourself it’s only a casual [...]

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THERE can be few better ways for older golfers to play competitive but friendly golf at some of Sydney’s best courses than by joining the Sydney Veteran Golfers Association.

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A MERRY Christmas and Happy New Year to all Australian Senior Golfer readers and to all those associated with the site over the year.

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SINCE his starring role in the US Masters last month and continued good form, Jason Day has been getting something of the “Hollywood” treatment in the US lately. He’s certainly been getting lots of attention in the golf media and television coverage. I loved the lead paragraph in a feature article on Day published on [...]

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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 [...]

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IT’S great to see Stephen Bowditch back on the US PGA Tour and celebrating his return to Australia with a tenacious win in Wollongong on the weekend. The 27 year old took the 2010 Cellarbrations NSW PGA Championship by two shots at the Wollongong Golf Club by two strokes from New Zealander Gareth Paddison on [...]

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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 [...]

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WE decided early on last year that we wouldn’t get involved in the whole Tiger Woods marital infidelity saga. That’s why we haven’t published a word about it since the whole controversy began. What we are pretty well exclusively interested in talking about here is golf, and delving into salacious details about private lives isn’t [...]

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SOMETIMES big time golf these days can start sounding a bit like an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show. You can just see a guest on Oprah’s couch confiding: “The key word for me this year is acceptance.” But this isn’t the personal development movement we’re talking about here, it’s the US PGA Tour. Sean [...]

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