On Par – All about golf in Australia

Kangaroo gallery at the 15th hole

Nige and I ventured out to the Growling Frog Golf Course recently to partner up in the first round of the Sunday Herald Sun Golf Challenge. Ive played for the last few years in the Singles competition, but this year we are playing in the Pair’s competition. [...]

Ian Poulter is one of the better professional sports twitterers out there. He keeps his followers updated with tweets on where/when he is playing “Teeing off Thursday 1.28 with Tiger Woods & Hunter Mahan should be great fun & great atmosphere“, how he is feeling “Morning had some rehab this morning on [...]

Moonah Links Legends Course – 5th Hole

Mornington Peninsula is a golfing mecca with ten of Australia’s top 50 courses (Australian Golf Digest 2010). The local golf tourism association is running a new event playing host to the inaugural Mornington Peninsula 54 hole amateur tournament in May. The tournament is open to all golfers with [...]

“Drive for show, putt for dough” – One of the most common sayings in golf, and also one of the most important. Today I got the driver working beautifully on the tee, and the irons were also pretty good. Managed to play to handicap (15) but felt the score could have been a [...]

The Australian golf handicapping system is being completely redeveloped this month. The current (pdf) handicapping system uses a complex amended differential score calculation requiring a mathematician to calculate the final outcome. From 9 April 2010, all official Australian handicaps managed via the national Golflink handicap network will be revised according to a new calculation [...]

John Sabino loves his golf, a director at Morgan Stanley in New York who decided a few years ago that golf on his local course wasnt enough of a challenge and planned to play the Top 100 golf courses in the world. John won’t be the first to complete this epic challenge, however more [...]

Played yesterday with Jamie and Michael, two Kiwi golfers who are playing a round of golf every day for 2010. They are travelling the world playing some of the worlds best courses and raising money for a NZ based junior golf program – First tee of New Zealand. Had an enjoyable round [...]

Is this the ultimate golfing challenge? Two kiwi golfers are on their way around the world aiming to play a round of golf every day for the entire year. Now thats a seriously impressive challenge. Jamie and Michael started their trek on January 1st playing Kauri Cliffs and if all goes well, [...]

This echidna wasnt happy with golfers intruding on its space on the 10th fairway

Stayed at Inverloch in South Gippsland (2 hours from Melbourne) over the Australia Day Long Weekend. Packed the clubs (of course) and played nearby Leongatha Golf Club with Jack and Kim, and the two boys. Leongatha is an excellent country course, [...]

Mr 8 and I headed up to Yarrambat Park Golf Course last Sunday afternoon for a leisurely 9 holes. We teed off at about 5pm, brilliant weather and not too busy on the course. Mr 8 has played most of his golf to date on the driving range, backyard, hallway and minigolf. [...]