Australian Senior Golfer

GREG NORMAN shares the lead after the first round of the US Senior Open but we hardly need remind you, don’t put your house on him just yet.

He’s gotta win one soon you’d think, but apparently tent dwelling isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The Shark shot a fine six under 66 at a very receptive Crooked Stick course in Carmel, Indiana along with Americans Joey Sindelar, Dan Forsman and amateur Tim Jackson. LIVE LEADERBOARD

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POPULAR Australian golfer Nathan Green has broken through to win his first US PGA Tour title. Green beat South African Retief Goosen in a sudden death play off to take what was a rain-plagued Canadian Open. The tournament ended up taking five days and 74 holes on a soggy and at times unplayable Glen Abbey [...]

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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN professional golfer Garry Merrick has won the 2009 John Deere Queensland Senior Open by three shots over Rodger Davis (NSW), after carding a one over par round (72) to finish on a total of four under par for the 54 hole event. Merrick was able to hold off his rivals over the final [...]

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GREG NORMAN was in the hunt until the final few holes of the British Senior Open before opening the way for American Loren Roberts to claim his second title. It was oh so familiar territory for Norman, who went into the final round with a one stroke lead over Fred Funk and Roberts after a [...]

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PETER SENIOR, one of Australia’s most loved and consistently successful players over the last 30 years, is about to enter the Legend ranks. Senior turns 50 on July 31and that milestone will open a whole new world of senior tour opportunities in Australia and overseas. Senior has plied his trade all over the world with [...]

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JUST proving it does sometimes happen, South Australian professional golfer Garry Merrick has attributed a putting tip he saw on a television golf show to the seven birdies that have put him in the outright lead ahead of the final round of the John Deere Queensland Senior Open at Nudgee Golf Club. Merrick fired a [...]

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RODGER DAVIS will be looking to capture his third Queensland Senior Open title when the Queensland PGA Legends Tour kicks off on Wednesday July 22 at the Nudgee Golf Club. Davis, winner of more than 21 titles world wide, won the event in  2006 and 2007 but his quest for a hat trick was cut [...]

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Tom Watson finds it within himself to be happy for Stewart Cink winning the British Open.

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GOLF can be such a very cruel game.

For 59 year old Tom Watson the fairytale was just ten foot away.

Every club golfer has at some stage stood over a ten foot putt, and for whatever the context making it “important” for them at the time, felt just a touch of what Watson must have been feeling.

Just this putt to win the British Open, many have fantasised.

But for the veteran American it wouldn’t be just any British Open. It would be an historic record equalling sixth win by a man much older than any of the champions who had gone before him.

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DEFENDING CHAMPION Stefan Albinski has staged one of his now classic come from behind performances to take the 2009 Queensland Senior Men’s Amateur Championship. Albinski, from the Mona Vale club in Sydney, made it back to back wins with a final round three over par 75 in very difficult conditions at the Oxley Golf Club. [...]

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