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Ponting pours cold water on pro golf tilt
It was May of 2005 when Gary Player told Ricky Ponting "the way you hit the ball, you’re wasting your time playing cricket.”
6 Feb 2024
Herbert takes LIV lucre, says OWGR "obsolete"
Lucas Herbert was thinking about LIV Golf and talking about LIV Golf and even reading about his own negotiations with LIV Golf before he’d spoken to, received an offer from, or signed with LIV Golf.
1 Feb 2024
A Shark's Tale
Greg Norman can sell. Because “Greg Norman” sells.
17 Jan 2024
Review: Mollymook Golf Club
“I guess now we know why they call them rapids and not ‘slow-pids’, huh?” – Ned Flanders, The Simpsons, 1993,
17 Jan 2024
Sorry business: inside Adam Scott's doomed Open tilt
The one constant throughout Adam Scott’s scorching tilt at the Australian Open on Sunday was wondering when, where and how it would be ultimately doomed.
3 Dec 2023
Good times cookin' in the cult of Min Woo Lee
Sean Crocker was travelling so poorly on Friday that he was dubbed ‘Barry’ by the small posse of press following his outward nine of 5-over 40. Crocker would ultimately scrap his way to 74 and scrape in just under the cut.
2 Dec 2023
Market mover: Why Michael Block's been worth the freight
Michael Block - let’s get this out of the way from the get-go – is no mug. A journeyman? Perhaps. A battler? On occasion, for sure. But a competitive, professional golfer? You bloody bet. Golf Australia did - and came up trumps.
1 Dec 2023
Here she comes: two-time major champion Minjee Lee in thrilling late charge
Minjee Lee was two-over and going, as they say, like a busted. There was a double-bogey. A three-putt. But while other golfers might have believed their game was going poorly, Lee only believed. Then she flicked the switch.
30 Nov 2023
Cam Smith still searching for that game-changing shot
Following a solid round of ball-striking in the pro-am of the Australian Open, Cameron Smith fronted his pre-tournament press conference and told the audience the old fable of how one single golf shot can change everything. And there wasn’t a golfer listening who didn’t think, 'Amen to that, brother.'
30 Nov 2023
All the right moves: Why Cam's back like he never went away
Outside of surfing, when the sport’s best professionals will warm-up for a world series event by tooling about with locals at their home break, golf’s pro-am is a singular beast.
29 Nov 2023
There is a war on public golf. Is Golf Australia in the fight?
It wasn’t a ‘gotcha’ moment – wasn’t meant to be. But it was surprising to hear Golf Australia chief executive James Sutherland admit that he hadn’t spoken to NSW Premier Chris Minns since Minns announced that Moore Park Golf Club, the busiest course in Australia, was going to be cut in half.
28 Nov 2023
"Some people don't wish me the best": Michael Block on fame, pressure and sausage rolls
He got off the plane and went straight to The Lakes. Then he went to the Opera House and had a beer. Then he had another one. He wants to catch a ferry and “see some roos”. He wants to try a sausage roll. He’s staying “downtown”. Everything is cool.
27 Nov 2023
Scenes! The crazy-brave charge of Leish and the Chile man
It’s not the middle of Mumbai nor the jungles of Sumatra nor Darwin before a big wet, but it’s steamy and hot enough as we head out onto Royal Queensland looking for a man to catch fire.
26 Nov 2023
"It's my way of beating cancer": Hendry channels inner beast to shoot sizzling 64
The most frightened Michael Hendry has been during his ongoing treatment for leukaemia was when he looked at himself in his bathroom mirror after his first, six-week round of chemotherapy. It was like looking at a ghost.
25 Nov 2023
Good Luck: Curtis makes ace on PGA Party Hole
While it didn't garner the viral action of Chase Koepka's ace in LIV Adelaide, Curtis Luck's hole-in-one at the 17th 'Party Hole' at Royal Queensland saw the West Australian finish at eight-under and well up the leaderboard in the Australian PGA Championship.
24 Nov 2023
Pepperell launches wedge into pond during 'crazy' RQ round
Eddie Pepperell of England made seven birdies in his one-under 70 in the opening round of the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland, a round that included an approach shot for the ages, a triple-bogey seven, and a lob wedge that now sleeps with the fishes in a pond behind the 14th green.
23 Nov 2023
Smith brings them in while Min Woo shoots lights out
Three Australian Open champions are striding down the 13th fairway of Royal Queensland in round one of the Australian PGA Championship, and they are being almost completely ignored.
23 Nov 2023
Iron Man of Oban to rock RQ
Scotsman Robert MacIntyre will go into round one of the Australian PGA Championship having played 27 holes at Royal Queensland, fending off the last tendrils of jetlag, and following a four week stretch that’s included 72 holes in hot, draining, and decidedly un-Scottish conditions in Spain, Qatar, Dubai and Sun City in South Africa.
22 Nov 2023
Sydneysider with funky swing poised to go low at Royal Queensland
We’re on the driving the range at Royal Queensland ahead of the Australian PGA Championship, and as Banjo Paterson would have it, the cracks have gathered to the fray.
22 Nov 2023
18 greatest golf shots played in Australia
With a huge summer of golf coming up in Australia, here are 18 of the greatest shots ever played on home soil.
21 Nov 2023
Stubbs charges to brilliant win in Asia-Pac Amateur at Royal Melbourne
Jasper Stubbs has become the fourth Australian and the second in two years to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship after a barnstorming play-off win over China's Wenyi Ding and Yunhe 'Sampson' Zheng.
29 Oct 2023
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