An Australian golf site for Australian Golfers
Australian Scott Hend has held on for a remarkable playoff victory at the European Tour’s Maybank Challenge in Malaysia.
The final few holes of the Maybank Challenge took over three hours thanks to a thunderstorm delaying play that eventually saw Scott Hend prevail in a sudden-death playoff.
Read more
One of the strangest tweets from the golf world over the weekend was this congratulatory message to the Brisbane Lions from Francesco Molinari.
A tweet from Francesco Molinari over the weekend had us wondering if Jimmy Fallon was at work. Or at least a similar prank.
Read more
News Corp sites have reported that 2001 Brownlow Medalist Jason Akermanis has been banned for a month from his local golf club after accusations of cheating.
According to news.com.au, Akermanis was banned from the Thurgoona Golf Club near Albury after being accused of hitting a golf ball from out-of-bounds and marking down a four on one hole when he supposedly had six shots.
Read more
A change of dates for the Australian PGA Championship will see it finish a big three weeks of golf in Australia this December.
The final dates have been finalized for the three big professional golf tournaments to be held in Australia in December.
The Australian PGA Championship was originally slated to be played in early December but it will now be played at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast from 19 – 22 December completing a big three weeks of professional golf in Australia.
Read more
Another thoughtful, must-read piece from Rod Morri in this month’s Golf Australia Magazine suggesting recent golf course closures may be due to golf’s image problem.
Morri explores the recent closure of yet another Australian public golf course, Sydney’s Hudson Park golf course this time, and wonders if golf needs a lobby group to make a case for keeping public golf courses in a way that provides for the wider community at the same time.
Read more
Australian golf fans now have access to the PGA Tour’s live streaming app GOLF TV, but the lack of air-time given to the Australian players is still a frustration.
Evin Priest at AAP reports in SMH and The Age that GOLF TV recognises the lack of airtime given to Australian players and have plans to capture every shot played at every tournament.
Read more
The guys at Thornleigh Driving Range made this vice video (with slightly dodgy audio) on the differences between face balanced putters and to balanced putters.
If you check out the video below you can see that the type of putter you select should largely be based on your type of putting stroke.
Read more
Rory McIlroy has won the 2019 PLAYERS Championship, holding off Jim Furyk to win by one stroke.
Rory McIlroy banished any Sunday demons with a dramatic one-stroke win at the PLAYERS Championship at Sawgrass.
McIlroy started the final round with yet another poor start that had golf fans wondering if he really can get it done on a Sunday.
Read more
Impersonator and comedian Conor Moore has starred alongside Tiger Woods in a commercial for the new Bridgestone golf balls. While just a short clip, and probably doesn’t show off Moore’s great skills as much as it could, it’s nicely done.
Here are a few more links to some of Conor’s best work.
Read more
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.
Read more