On Par – All about golf in Australia

Whistling Straits is full of bunkers, 967 as per Golf Digests count, yet many have tried to count the bunkers, many gave up, and no two counts have ever been the same. So defining a bunker/hazard on this crazed course isnt easy.

Dustin Johnson felt the full impact of the subjective definition of [...]

What a ‘Major’ difference! The recent British Open was a bit of a yawn for some, mainly due to the dominant display and emphatic win by South Africa’s Oosthuizen. This weekends US PGA Championship at Whistling Straits on the other hand had a frantic final round, with numerous lead changes, great shots, recoveries, misses, [...]

Tiger Woods will return to Melbourne to play the 2010 JBWere Australian Masters at Victoria Golf Club. In Melbourne last November he was royalty, followed by massive galleries and media watching his every step. 106,000 spectators across four days at Kingston Heath, large numbers of interstate visitors, tee times booked out across Melbourne [...]

On Friday Tiger Woods missed the sixth cut of his career in only his second tournament back from his extended self imposed break. His swing has major problems and he is unable to keep the ball straight even on the practice tee. This was big enough news on its own, however if [...]

The US Masters hype is reaching fever pitch with a day to go before the first round. 95% of the media has been focussed on one man, Tiger Woods, returning to tournament golf following his self imposed break to work on his ‘issues’. The other 5% of the media has been focussed on [...]

Finally, Tiger has announced that he will return to competitive golf for the first time since the infamous car crash and resulting revelations at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in April.

On his website Tiger writes: “The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. [...]

Plenty Views Golf Park located in Plenty in Melbournes North East used to be a busy driving range on weekends, most bays were full with all types of swings on display, the driver being the most used club. The driving range also has a great cafe with wood fired pizza and work had been [...]

Adam Scott’s long overdue Australian Open win last week showed some signs that the classic Scott swing was getting back on track after a shocker of a year. Scott crashed to 108th on the USA PGA Tour money list in 2009

At the Australian PGA at Coolum this weekend, Scott is 2 shots off [...]

With Tigers mistresses now up to 12, including nightclub waitresses and porn stars, the whole Tiger Woods story has been on front, middle and back page news now for a couple of weeks. The only official word from Tiger himself is via his website – tigerwoods.com.

His latest news, probably not surprising, is [...]

Adam Scott won his maiden title on home soil winning the Australian Open at New South Wales by 5 shots from Stuart Appleby. At the presentation, Greg Norman whispered “About bloody time”, and many agree. Scott has one of the games best swings, we’d all like the mechanics of Scott’s swing, which [...]