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A Stableford score of 43-points was still 18 points behind the winner in the comp at Maroochy River Golf Club on Monday.
The Courier Mail’s Jim Tucker has reported one seriously electric round of golf.
Playing in his first club competition in 8 years at Maroochy River Golf Club, 23-year-old Kye McWaters carded an incredible 61 Stableford points off a handicap of 30.
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Adam Scott sat down with Johnny Long on Instagram to chat about life in lockdown and answer some fan questions.
We weren’t exactly sure how this chat came about until we realised that Saunders & Long is a “is a luxury hair and skincare line” and Long is Scott’s stylist.
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If you haven’t heard it already, make sure you check out Rory McIlroy’s chat with Lawrence Donegan and John Huggan on the McKellar Golf Podcast.
The laid-back chat with McIlroy is a fun listen and early in the podcast, the conversation turns to golf architecture.
By his own admission, golf course design wasn’t something McIlroy was overly interested in early in his career but he’s since begun taking a closer interest and is now more likely to play a golf tournament simply because it is being played on a great golf course.
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During the COVID-19 shutdown, Golf Australia ran a competition looking for the best-isolated golf trick shots while everyone was holed up at home.
And of course, there was a stack of great entries. But they’ve now decided upon the winners which saw a set of 3 Cleveland wedges got to Will Duffield for this piece of #IsoTrickShot genius.
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Construction of the new short course at Barnbougle is well underway with a few people involved sharing some exciting photos over the past few months.
Shaped into the ridge of dunes that surround 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th holes at Barnbougle Lost Farm, the new Coore & Crenshaw designed short course will have 13 or 14 par-3s and 4s when finished.
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Golfers across Victoria are celebrating the news that from Wednesday morning they will be able to return to the golf course.
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has lifted the ban on golf as the state begins to ease restrictions placed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As of Wednesday morning, Victorians golfers will once again be able to play golf – under strict social distancing rules.
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The ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia will endeavour to recapture golf’s golden years in this country with a reimagined tournament schedule that will see the tour in full swing from October and culminate with the crowning of the Order of Merit winner in March.
Media release via Australian Golf Media
The restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic has brought about significant disruption to the 2020 schedule but in order to play a full complement of events the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia will extend the season until March 2021, a format that will become the norm moving forward.
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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will face off with a couple of famous playing partners at Medalist Golf Club in Florida on May 24, 2020.
The rematch called “The Match: Champions for Charity on TNT,” will raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.
Woods will partner with former Colts and Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning in the charity challenge, facing off against Phil Mickelson and New England Patriots Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.
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Nick Price’s old caddie Dave McNeilly has taken to Twitter to tell the story of when he was severely hungover while his employer went on to card the course record at Augusta National.
Before the third round of the 1986 Masters Tournament, Nick Price’s bagman Dave McNeilly decided to head out and have a few drinks to celebrate making the cut.
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A new teaser trailer has dropped for PGA Tour 2K21, a new golf video game.
Since the demise of the EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour video games, console and PC tournament golf has been thrown in as part of The Golf Club game series developed by HB Studios.
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