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Scott Hend had his first international win on the Asian Tour at the Pertamina Indonesia President Invitational
Sarah-Jane Kenyon moves to third on the Duramed Futures Tour after a win at the last event of the season; the ILOVENY Championship. She now has a fully exempt status on the LPGA Tour in 2009.
The 2009 Women’s Australian Open is to be played at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne from the 12th to 15th February 2009.
Golf Queensland has launched a new website to enable players to keep tabs on all their Golf Queensland Tournament bookings and results via the players own profile.
An Australian website that offered golfers the opportunity to play for money has breached the Rules Of Amateur Status. Golf Cash (formerly Putt For $$$) had their model reviewed by Golf Australia ( pdf media release)and the R&A with both organisations determining it breaches the rules.
Golf Australia have announced the appointment of Stephen Pitt as the organisations Chief Executive Officer. He takes over from Tony Hallam in what could arguably be a very testing time for Australian golf given the current economic climate.
Adam Scott has expanded the Adam Scott Foundation into Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, the Foundation will support and offer opportunities to young people in Asia.
Geoff Ogilvy had this to say (in part) about the revised FedEx Cup Playoff System “If I make the Tour Championship I make it. If I don’t, I really don’t give a f#$k”. Tell us how you really feel Geoff…
Greg Chalmers has had ten top ten finishes on the Nationwide Tour this year (the highest number of any of the players on the Nationwide) and this will enable him to return to the US PGA Tour next year. He currently sits third on the money list for the mens’ secondary tour.
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What’s Happened To The Von Nida Tour?
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 […]
PGA Tour Winners 1997 To 2007
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 […]
Want To Live Longer? Play Golf
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 […]
I Think There’s A Golf Buggy Following Me
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, […]
Prize Money for The Masters 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 […]
The Masters 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 […]
Bunker Shots End Up Short Of The Hole
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 […]
Setting Goals
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 […]
Moonah Calssic - Where Dreams Are Made
…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 […]
