Australian Senior Golfer

AL HOWARD, the oldest living Australian PGA member, celebrated his 100th birthday this week.

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THE 2013 Australian PGA Championship will have a new, most probably dinosaur-free home with confirmation organisers are bidding a fond farewell to the Palmer Coolum Resort. The tournament has had a popular home at the Sunshine Coast resort for the last 11 years but the PGA of Australia has announced the tournament will definitely head [...]

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THE PGA of Australia today launched PGA Travel, destined to become a leading provider of golf related domestic and international travel. Operating as a division of the established Teed Up Golf Tours, PGA Travel is the PGA’s Official Golf Travel Supplier, and will offer exclusive ‘stay and play’ packages for PGA Tour of Australasia tournaments. [...]

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FIVE members of the Victorian Golf Industry were officially recognised for their years of dedication and hard work at a special ceremony at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this week. John Davis, Bill Edgar, Mona McLeod, Brian Simpson and Ian Stanley were inducted into the prestigious Hall of Fame, recognising their exceptional service to the golf [...]

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PETER SENIOR has had a great week, following on from his sizzling 8-under effort on Sunday to tie for fourth in the year’s first senior major, he has just been inducted as a Life Member of the PGA of Australia. Senior was honoured along with Leonard Thomas and Arnold Victorsen at the PGA Annual General [...]

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SOME of Victoria’s finest ever golfers including Peter Thomson and Geoff Ogilvy were honoured at Royal Melbourne Golf Club this week as part of the PGA of Australia’s Centenary awards program. In total 28 PGA professionals from across Victoria were named as award recipients, recognised for their contribution to Australian golf and the PGA across [...]

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GOLF tragic Ricky Ponting heads a list of celebrities spearheading a new campaign aimed at getting more Australians playing and enjoying golf.

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GEELONG Golf Professional James McLean has taken the second round lead at the Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA Championship with a six under par 64 at the Forest Resort Creswick. McClean started the day two under the card and four shots from the lead but after birdieing the first soon found himself moving up the [...]

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The 2011 Australian golf season will be one of the best ever with the Presidents Cup headlining a series of events that have attracted some of the biggest names in world golf.

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ONE HUNDRED is usually a very unwelcome number in golf but that’s not the case for the PGA of Australia which today celebrates its centenary birthday. Formed at Royal Sydney Golf Club on 19th September 1911, the PGA has grown from 15 Members to over 2500 today. There are a number of special events and [...]

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