Australian Senior Golfer

Australian Senior Amateur Champion Stefan Albinski has taken out the 2009 WA Senior Championship with another outstanding come from behind win. The Mona Vale golfer fired a final round 71 to defeat arch rival Brian Sams by four strokes at the Royal Perth Golf Club. Albinski stormed home after starting the day a stroke behind [...]

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In Part 5 of our Full Golf Swing Fundamendals series Bobby Eldridge, Head Teaching Professional at PurePoint Golf, says the secret to the golf swing is the first move down from the top of the backswing. Eldridge says the important factor in generating clubhead spead is not in how fast you can pull the grip end of the golf club down, but in generating width with the right arm on its journey back to the golf ball.

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THE spectre is looming of Crazy Phil Mickelson unseating Tiger Woods as the world’s top-ranking golfer for the first time in his career. Crazy Phil has been helped along just slightly by Woods’ eight month lay off due to knee surgery but it is also his own good form this year that has put him [...]

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Part Four of our series on Full Golf Swing Fundamentals focuses on the all important move to the top of the backswing.
As the golf club leaves the 9:00 position, it has to continue on the arc until you reach the top of the backswing. There are a number of moving parts that must be in place during this journey. First and foremost the right shoulder must continue to turn.

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GOLF Australia has announced Australia will adopt the United States Golf Association Course Rating System. In a major announcement, the Golf Australia board also said it would be determining the future direction of the Australian Handicapping System (and CCR) following a state forum to be held at the end of April. GA says the course [...]

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THE Kiwis are hoping for big things this year when they take on Australia for the 2009 Senior Men’s Trans Tasman golf title to be played at Sanctuary Cove in May.

This will be the third year the now annual Ryder and President’s Cup format event has been held and Australia has won the first two. Writing on the AUSOOM website, three-time Australian representative Denis Dale says the 2009 contest should be very close.

“The Kiwis are much better prepared and this time have used selection trials to ensure a high quality side,” Dale says.

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LEGENDARY Kiwi golfer Sir Bob Charles will turn 73 during the running of the New Zealand Open this Saturday but the World Golf Hall of Famer hasn’t been talking up his chances of making his second cut in a row at the event.

Charles turned the competition on its ear last time, finishing T23, twice shooting better than his age, coming home third best Kiwi and becoming the oldest player in history to make the cut at a major PGA Tour event.

With a sudden cold snap plummeting temperatures and bringing snow and soggy conditions to New Zealand’s south island, Charles didn’t fancy the effect it would have on his circulation or his run off the tee.

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When you pick up a golf club your hands are the only part of your body that touch the club. For many years the hands (grip) have often been referred to as the steering wheel of the golf swing. Bobby Eldridge, Head Teaching Professional at PurePoint Golf, believes this could not be more true. Gripping the golf club correctly, he says, makes playing this game a much better experience. Part of the ongoing Golf Swing Fundamentals Series.

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ACT golfer Bill Banks has won the NSW Senior Amateur Championship with a one shot victory over Denis Dale.

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ACCORDING to the latest rankings, five out of the top ten players on the US Tour use Titleist golf balls. That might give Titleist, who have just released their new Pro V1 model 2009 range, something to crow about. But then again, not one of the world’s top three golfers use them. So there is a choice out there.
The chief stand out is of course a man named Tiger Woods, who you can’t have missed using Nike One Platinum balls.

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