Australian Senior Golfer

WEBB SIMPSON has won the 2012 US Open by a stroke after Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell missed a 24 foot downhill putt that would have forced a playoff.

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SURELY Northern Ireland can’t win the US Open three years in a row but that outcome is well on the cards with 2010 winner Graeme McDowell sharing a two stroke lead with American veteran Jim Furyk going into the final day of the 2012 event at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. On the punishing [...]

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THE OLYMPIC CLUB certainly lived up to the pre-tournament hype, causing carnage amongst the world’s best golfers in the first round of the 2012 US Open today. The tournament leader after day one was unheralded 27 year old American Michael Thompson who shot a 4-under 66 to take a three stroke lead over pre-tournament favourite [...]

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AS THE 2012 US OPEN gets underway at the revered Olympic Club all eyes will be on two players who tied for 40th at the Masters this year – Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.

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NINE Aussies will tee it up for what is billed as “golf’s toughest test” when the US Open gets underway at The Olympic Club in San Francisco this week.

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UNFORTUNATELY for those without access to pay television the 2012 US Open golf won’t be featuring on free to air television in Australia. The broadcaster of last year – TEN and ONE HD – seems to have abandoned Australian golf fans altogether and this year won’t even be covering the Australian Open from The Lakes. [...]

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NOTHING could be finer for South Carolina’s Lucas Glover than his stunning victory in the 2009 US Open.

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FORGET our previous story, regional Australians (and all those without ONE HD access) will once again be stiffed by Channel 10 and the Southern Cross regional network and they will not be getting full coverage of the Final Round of the 2009 US Open, which begins around 11pm Monday Sydney time tonight. Channel 10 Network television [...]

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EARLY tearaway leader Ricky Barnes had dropped a couple of strokes but Australia’s Michael Sim had faired little better as partial final rounds of the US Open were halted due to poor light.
Americans Barnes and Lucas Glover were at seven under after just one final round hole, with a resurgent Phil Mickelson looming behind at minus two.
Sim is paired with Tiger Woods (sitting on Even after seven holes) and both he and Adam Scott (9 holes completed) are at four over. Australian television coverage will recommence early Tuesday morning. Live Leaderboard.

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This heavily bunkered green surrounded by big grandstands and lots of New York noise awaits US Open competitors on the par 3, 207 yard 17th at Bethpage Black.

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