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What’s Happened To The Von Nida Tour?

Cal on Friday, 4th Jul 2008

A check on the PGA of Australia website shows a distinct lack of information about the Von Nida Tour.

The News has stopped after the SA PGA Championship, and does not even mention the lack of upcoming events and what is actually happening with the tour. The Photo Galleries don’t show anything from this year either.

The West Australian Open, the Queensland Open and the Queensland PGA all appear to have been cancelled.

The Von Nida Tour has also lost at least four other events from a few years ago, including the Queensland Masters (held in Townsville), the Cairns Classic, the Toyota Southern Classic (Woolooware) and the Volvo Classic (Bonville near Coffs Harbour).

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PGA Tour Winners 1997 To 2007

Cal on Wednesday, 2nd Jul 2008

I was trawling around the interweb and found this site called Wordle.
Their description for the site is:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color […]

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Want To Live Longer? Play Golf

Cal on Tuesday, 3rd Jun 2008

Based on data from 300,000 Swedish golfers, a researcher at the Karolinska Institute has found out that people who play golf can expect to live 5 years longer.
Golfers have a lower death rate than non-golfers, with the effect being greater for golfers from blue-collar professions than for those from white-collar, and the lowest […]

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I Think There’s A Golf Buggy Following Me

Cal on Tuesday, 15th Apr 2008

Shadow Caddy have started distributing a three wheeled electric golf buggy that follows you around.
“Forget everything you thought you knew about electric golf caddies. An all new product and all new technology has arrived! The Shadow Caddy® is a three wheel electronic caddy that, like a human caddy, carries the golfer’s clubs for them, […]

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Prize Money for The Masters 2008

Cal on Monday, 14th Apr 2008

Always a popular thing for people to look for, so for a full list see Augusta.com.
The top 10 were:
1 Trevor Immelman $1,350,000
2 Tiger Woods $810,000
3 Stewart Cink $435,000
3 Brandt Snedeker $435,000
5 Padraig Harrington $273,750
5 Steve Flesch $273,750
5 Phil Mickelson $273,750
8 […]

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The Masters 2008

Cal on Wednesday, 9th Apr 2008

Ah, it’s that time of year again when we get our hopes up, and dream of the possibility an Australian will win the one major that has so far eluded us. The Masters.
Going in to do battle on our collective behalf are:
Robert Allenby (14,16,18)
Stuart Appleby (10,17,18)
Aaron Baddeley (14,16,17,18)
Michael Campbell (2)
# Richard Green (12,17)
Peter Lonard […]

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Bunker Shots End Up Short Of The Hole

Cal on Friday, 21st Mar 2008

Most high handicappers come up short out of greenside bunkers about 90% of the time.
This is the result of not accelerating the club through the sand - they get scared they will hit the ball to hard and fly over the green.
As you set up in the bunker, think in terms of striking the sand […]

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Setting Goals

Cal on Thursday, 20th Mar 2008

Most high handicappers set goals of breaking 100 or 90.
Instead of thinking in terms of breaking a particular score, set your goals around things like number of fairways hit, number of greens in regulation, number of sand saves, and number of putts.
As you practice to make yourself better in these things, your score will improve […]

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Moonah Calssic - Where Dreams Are Made

Cal on Friday, 22nd Feb 2008

…and nightmares begin.
Players teeing off early in the morning definitely had it easier than the afternoon group, who had to contend with strong winds coming off Bass Straight. The likes of David Diaz (+6), Marcus Frazer (+7), Steven Bowditch (+8) and Scott Draper (+11) all missed the cut.
Live scoring can be found at the […]

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Nationwide Tour Heads South

Cal on Wednesday, 13th Feb 2008

The Nationwide Tour starts the first of two tournaments in Australasia this week, with the 2008 HSBC New Zealand PGA Championship being played at Clearwater Golf Club in Christchurch from 14th to 17th February.
Jarrod Lyle will be there hoping for back to back victories on the tour. He’s no stranger to the course having […]

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