Most of us would be happy to just live to 100 years of age, let alone still being able to play golf.
Channel 7 News reported on Sydney golfer Anne Burton’s 100th birthday which will be marked by playing golf.
How well does she look!? And still hits the ball really well too!
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Club golfers and casual golfers are all a chance to win by playing 9 holes this summer.
Golf Australia’s PLAY 9 initiative kept crossing our radar but we hadn’t quite worked out the details until we went over to www.golf.org.au/play9/ to see what it’s all about.
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I’d heard a bit about the Outback Queensland Masters a little bit but it hadn’t properly caught my eye until I spotted a couple of exquisite photographs on their Instagram feed.
The Outback Queensland Masters takes place over six tournaments at six different towns in outback Queensland and includes a hole-in-one shot for $1million and winners claiming a flaming orange jacket.
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Check out every hole at Tasmania’s very quirky Ratho Farm golf course.
Scott Campbell is sharing some fine looking video content down his YouTube Channel and I was captivated by this recent video at Ratho Farm.
For those who may not know, Ratho Farm is about an hour’s drive north-east from Hobart and is considered to be Australia’s oldest golf course; and quite possibly the quirkiest.
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One of our favourite golf pros shares three simple tips to improve your driving without changing your golf swing.
Love these golf tips from Brian Fitzgerald that’ll help out your driving without making any swing changes.
They’re three simple tips really but it’s amazing how few golfers implement them on the golf course.
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Don’t neglect your golf fitness during this lockdown with this training program focussing on Golf Fitness and Clubhead Speed.
The great team at Precision Atholetica have launched a fantastic, online six-week golf fitness program to keep you in shape and and ensure you’re ready to bounce back on to the golf course.
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Are we entering the age of the short golf course?
Mooted for decades as a way to increase participation, help time-poor golfers and encourage new people to play, shorter golf courses are only now beginning to come to fruition.
Several great short courses such as the 12-hole concept, par-3 tracks and mini-golf are only now emerging on the Australian golf landscape such as Bougle Run, and a swathe of fantastic mini-golf courses around the country.
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Sad times as Brisbane’s beloved Victoria Park Golf course has closed; to be turned into a public park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uel8_m8qQk
Channel 7 did a good job of covering the closure of one of Australia’s most-used public golf courses when it got out to victoria Golf Course in Brisbane.
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Points, teams, lone wolf’s and tee positions are all tracked in the Wolf Golf Scorecard app available for Android users.
Australian golfers don’t gamble on the golf course as much as American golfers, so it’s likely you’ve never heard of the game Wolf.
It’s a golf format game for 4 four players, where you are playing for an amount of money per hole.
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Andrew Daddo is a golf tinkerer, nutter, obsessive and has now “fixed” his putter.
I had the pleasure of playing golf with Andrew Daddo a few years back and I can confirm this guy as an absolute golf nutter. Daddo is as enthusiastic about golf as anyone I’ve played with and will be as enthralled about your golf game as he is with his own.
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