On Par - All about golf in Australia

Whilst in Perth, Sam & I drove down to Secret Harbour for our ‘Boys day Out’.  Secret Harbour is about 45mins South of Perth towards Mandurah.  The course is set amongst a new housing development, so very spread out amongst residential housing.  With limited time, we hired a cart and played nine [...]

Havent been keeping ye olde blog up to date….so catching up on recent news.

Played the first round of the Herald Sun Matchplay comp recently.  Have played in this competition over the last couple of years and made it to about the fourth round a few years ago:

2006 – Won the first round 2/1 , [...]

Had planned a round at the Growling Frog this morning, but with a forecast that read Rain, possible hail and a max of 14 degrees, we decided to postpone! Yes, Im a golf tragic and have played in tropical humidity, heat, torrential rain, gail force winds and sleet but sometimes the brain has a [...]

Played again at Waterford Valley today, with colleagues from work, Bernie, Nige, Nic, Tania and Kenji. Weather was sensational, not a cloud in the sky and a slight wind. What a difference a week makes in golf! The swing started off patchy again, the short game was much improved though the putter [...]

The golf swing explained…....

...simple!

Played the Puma HSV Moonah Links Pro-am today, on the Open Course (See my review) at Moonah Links.  Joined pro Heath Jones, David and Will (a wierd one, said he was off scratch and hadnt played for 6 months, could bomb the ball but also hit some shockers and had no etiquette at all, [...]

Survival golf on the National old course

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Played today on the brutal yet spectacular Old course at the National golf club on the Mornington Peninsula. Joined Rod and Paul, thanks for the invite Rod.

The old course is not for the feint hearted, huge undulations in fairways, massive bunkers, inpenetrable rough surrounding the fairways [...]

Another year dawns, 2008 promises much, will it deliver?

Apart from the normal NY resolutions of getting fit, losing weight, eating better, improving life etc etc, Ive also got some golfing new years resolutions….


Take more lessons.   After three lessons with Wayne at the Growling Frog last year, my game started to show [...]

Whilst on holiday, played 9 holes on the final day of the 2007 year at Mallacoota Golf Club. Was joined by my fellow King Tour mate, Steve, and also my son Sam for his first ‘official’ round of golf. It was hot, so we settled for a slow nine holes, and Sams little [...]

Played a late nine holes at Yarrambat Park Golf Course this afternoon. Blue sky, warm, slight breeze, perfect for golfing. Jack, Kim and I escaped thanks to Nicks generous offer to look after the four kids whilst we hit the course. Didnt take much convincing.

Jack and Kim got off the tee well, [...]