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Ian Baker-Finch destroys a bunker in this Snickers TV commercial from the 1980s 1990s.
A long time ago now Australia’s best golfers used to appear in Australian television (that’s what TV stands for) commercials. We’ve shared a few featuring Greg Norman here before, but here is one featuring the great Ian Baker-Finch.
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A lightning bolt was captured on video ripping through a tree at the Women’s US Open.
Scorching hot weather was interrupted by severe thunderstorms during the second round of the Women’s US Open Championship on Friday.
Not long after the horn had sounded to suspend play at the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina, this lightning bolt discharged itself via a tree not far from the 18th green.
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Here is some great chat between two of the best in the game talking about and playing bunker shots.
Thanks to Rob Lusetich for picking up on this great video from Taylormade featuring Tiger Woods and Jason Day engaging in a bit of talk about bunker technique.
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The European tour heads to Denmark this week and tournament organisers have implemented one of the most unusual walks to the next tee we’ve seen.
Jasmine (of Jazzy Golfer fame) takes us through the walk from the 13th green to the 14th tee at Himmerland Golf Klub for this week’s Made In Denmark golf tournament.
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Here is a great example of an excellent use of free time from these lads using a golf ball, a putter and one massive underground car park.
As one of the comments says, we don’t care how many takes this took, it deserves all the praise it gets.
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Teeing off the 10th hole for his first round of The PLAYERS Championship, Ryan Moore carded an ace at the infamous par-3 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass.
But it was the way it went in that had the crowd in raptures.
Moore sent his ball towards the hole 121-yards away with a gap wedge.
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Nice putting tip for those golf nuts among us who are keen blu tack enthusiasts.
Stick two balls together and try and get them to roll straight at the target.
It might look a little silly out on the practice putting green but we like the idea behind this one, and you may not look so silly making putts on the golf course.
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If you haven’t seen this shot from Tiger Woods already we share it here for posterity as this one will be shown again and again for years to come.
At the par-4 9th hole at Club de Golf Chapultepec during the second round of the WGC Mexico Championship, Tiger Woods found himself in a fairway bunker, and perhaps strangely, a tree lay between his ball and the green 103-yards away.
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Patrick Cantlay came within centimetres of an ace on a par-4 today while the group in front was still on the green.
Kevin Kisner was putting for par at the par-4 12th hole during this third round of the WGC Mexico Championship, and just as his ball disappeared into the hole, another came racing by.
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If you were flicking through the channels trying to find the WGC Mexico Championship this morning on Foxtel or free-to-air TV you were out of luck.
For perhaps the first time in over a decade, a PGA Tour, European Tour, WGC or major was not available through traditional TV broadcasters in Australia.
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