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Many years ago, a video of nine golfers making nine putts went viral.
The DP World Tour enticed 12 professional golfers including New Zealand’s Ryan Fox to try and replicate the challenge. This time with 12 golfers.
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Tasmania’s new golf course looks like it will be spectacular and include something very unique in world golf.
The trickle of photos on social media from the team constructing Hobart’s new 7 Mile Beach golf course has been a thrill for lovers of golf architecture.
Matt Goggin and the golf design crew from Clayton, Devries and Pont have cleared the site lying just east of Hobart of the introduced radiata pine forest to reveal an incredible place to build a golf course.
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For the world’s best golfers, a score of sub-60 is the holy grail. A Melbourne golfer did it last week, smashing through the elusive 60 barrier.
If you haven’t heard already, you must get across this remarkable story of this young pro shooting one incredible score.
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This is interesting. Rather than ignore the on-course tantrums of England’s Tyrrell Hatton, the DP World Tour are embracing them.
The angry exploits of Tyrrell Hatton have been packaged up into one angry video.
To be fair many of these are in good spirit and fun to watch.
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Wordle lovers needed a way to compare their scores against other people – and golf came to the rescue.
The Wordle phenomenon doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. The daily word quiz app based on old pencil and paper games and created by Welsh engineer Josh Wardle, went viral in late 2021 – and was bought out by the New York Times Company for an undisclosed 7-figure sum in January 2022.
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Bryson DeChambeau has joined the team from Dude Perfect for one of their All Sports Golf Battles at… Augusta National.
I’ve shared around a few Dude Perfect videos in the past. These guys are hugely popular with over 57 million subscribers to their YouTube Channel – producing trick shot clips, golfer stereotypes and their All-Sports Battle videos that take place on a golf course.
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It’s probably fair to say that there is no such thing as a bad golf trip but some are certainly better than others. It’s the little things that count; from the accommodation and golf, right down to the details with formats and presentations.
For some of us, an impending golf trip is the thing that keep us going.
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This is unusual, a golf movie getting some decent reviews.
The Phantom of The Open is released in Australian cinemas on July 14, 2022 – same day The Open Championship starts and tells the story of “the world’s worst golfer”.
It’s all loosely based on the story of Maurice Flitcroft, which Wikipedia describes as “British golfer and audacious hoaxer”:
Flitcroft became notorious after hitting a score of 121 in the qualifying competition for the 1976 Open Championship—the worst score recorded at the Open Championship—and by a self-professed “professional golfer”.
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If you need any more incentive to get to Victoria to play golf, Tourism Victoria’s latest promo videos are a fun watch.
Andy Lee is joined by Todd Woodbridge and Geoff Ogilvy in a bunch of golf challenges on some of Victoria’s best golf courses.
We’ve previously shared around a Blind Shot Challenge with these guys and Todd Woddbridge’s amazing bunker shot, but now things are getting more hilariously absurd.
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Sam Woods revealed something about her father that has DC Comic fans in a spin.
Tiger Woods was yesterday inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and his daughter Sam was chosen to introduce the 15-time major champion to the stage.
Perhaps the most surprising moment of the whole ceremony was when Sam revealed that her father is not only a big DC Comics fan, but he once went to Comic-Con dressed as Batman.
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