On Par - All about golf in Australia

The world really is a wonderful place…..

The Easter Mini Golf Invitational was held at the Maroondah Adventure Park earlier today.  Sam, Becca (complete with easter bunny ears), Mum and Dad played a closely contested round on the Lakes Course, a tough Par 56 layout including water hazards, bunkers, multileveled greens, and some pretty funky tubes and channels.  Sam started the strongest, [...]

Its official, Golf is the most popular sport on the web.  Well, thats according to the five minute survey that I have just completed on Google.  Run a Google search for “golf” and it coughs out 371 million results!!  Closest sporting rival is “football” with 220 million.

golf – 371 million

football – 220 million
tennis – 172 [...]

Robin Williams discusses the derivation of golf, very funny.
NB: Gratuitious use of the F word!

Movember 2006 finished last Thursday night with the Movember Gala, a massive party to celebrate the month of Movember, and the very impressive $4 million plus raised by the 50,000 Mo-bro’s for Prostate cancer research and mae depression. A worthy cause worth the steel wool embedded in the upper lip.

Our Team Cobra Bro’s raised [...]

Yes, its on again. Ive joined fellow Mo-bro’s again to grow the Mo for Movember. Its all about promoting awareness and raising money for Prostate Cancer research and Male depression. From tommorow, the upper lip will be left unshaved for the entire month. Last years effort was [...]

My on-par blog is one year old today! In the first year, there have been 72 posts and about 4 comments hahaha!

With excitement and trepidation, I met Ben, Liss, Campbell and Matt for the Round the Bay Ride. Having riden the 100k ride for the last 2 years, this was the next big step, though wasnt sure how far I could ride! Weather was clear but chilly, luckily I had the vest, arm and [...]

Sam and I headed to the driving range last weekend. Loaded a video from my phone onto youtube.com (how very Web 2.0 of me!) and here is Sam in action. OK, so the orientation is askew but lean to the right and you’ll be fine. I will fix this soon!

When a thin bike tyre meets a wet strip of polished metal at speed the results are not good. Cruising home on new bike, post-rain, right hand turn across tram tracks in Smith Street. All going well until my rear wheel decided to continue up Smith Street at pace. Luckily for new [...]