Australian Senior Golfer

AUSSIE golfing great Peter Senior is going gangbusters since joining the senior ranks in June and has a good chance of adding the Australian Senior Open Championship to his belt when it gets underway at Royal Perth on Friday. Senior is 10th on the European Seniors Tour Order of Merit after playing in just three [...]

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AUSTRALIA’S richest event for senior golfers, the $300,000 Handa Australian Senior Open will move to Perth for the first time this October. After two years at Concord Golf Club in Sydney, the prestigious event is expected to attract a field of 100 “Legends” of international golf – including senior newbie Peter Senior – to Royal [...]

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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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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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AUSTRALIAN senior pro golfers Mike Harwood and David Merriman have received late invitations to the 70th US Senior PGA Championship being played at the Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland Ohio this week. They will join fellow Australians Greg Norman and 1990 US PGA champion Wayne Grady in a field including defending champion, American Jay Haas. [...]

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WAYNE GRADY has won the inaugural South Australian PGA Seniors Championship at Adelaide Shores Golf Club on the first play off hole after a final round 68. Grady beat South Australian Garry Merrick in the play off after both golfers finished four below par after 36 holes. Third was Victoria’s David Good on three under. [...]

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WAYNE GRADY will be a hot favourite when he heads a star studded line up competing in the inaugural South Australian PGA Seniors Championship at Adelaide Shores next week. Grady is  in top form after winning in Japan last week but will face stiff opposition in the Australian PGA Legends Tour event from the likes [...]

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VICTORIAN senior professional Michael Clayton has claimed his first senior’s title, the 2009 Victorian Senior Open at The Dunes Golf Links at Rye on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula. Clayton beat New South Welshman John Clifford by two strokes over the 54 hole event. The final day began Friday morning under cloudy skies and gusty winds with [...]

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ANDREW DAKERS from NSW and Queenslanders Ricki Mangan, Steve Morshuis and Tana Palmer are the newest graduates to the Australian Legends Tour following the Qualifying School held at Camden Lakeside Country Club in NSW. The Australian PGA Legends Tour Qualifying School teed off with six 50-years plus amateurs chasing four playing tickets for the 2009 [...]

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