On Par – All about golf in Australia

The Australian Open will be played at the spectacular NSW golf club on the coast in Sydney. The poster boys were Geoff Ogilvy and Greg ‘we couldnt get Tiger so we dusted off the Shark’ Norman. However Norman has withdrawn from the tournament due to shoulder injury.

The local pros include Ogilvy, Scott, Appleby [...]

Tiger shared the lead into the final round of the Australian Masters, but given his third round form and signs of anger and frustration the result wasnt a forgone conclusion. Nitties, Chalmers and Dufner were in the hunt, Appleby and Scott not far off the pace. Tigers 3 birdies in the first six [...]

The worlds number one golfer returned from the stratosphere in the third round of the Masters with an even par 72, joined on 10 under with Nitties and lefty Chalmers who both shot 69s. Tiger was more intense, had taken some agro pills, and wasnt happy with a number of wayward shots, at one [...]

Tiger started the second round of the Masters with 2 birdies and stamped the authority of the worlds Number one golfer on the tournament again. Woods followed his 66 on Thursday with an effortless 68 which included 4 birdies and no blemishes, he didnt raise a sweat. Woods is now 3 shots [...]

Im lucky enough to be heading to Kingston Heath for the second round of the Australian Masters. As part of my tourism role, I will be working on the ‘Golf in Victoria’ stand helping to promote Melbourne and Victoria’s wealth of excellent golf courses. If you are at the course, be sure to [...]

Finally the pre-tournament hype is over, and the Australian Masters is underway. Tiger Woods is still the man everyone wants to see, the gallery following him was huge, and rightly so, he put on a show eating up the short par 5s. He did have one blemish, a pulled drive on the 9th [...]

Crowds flocked to Kingston Heath for a second day and the tournament hasnt even started yet! Surely there are crowd records being set left right and centre! I was lucky enough to play in the 2005 Australian Open Pro-am at Moonah Links. A fantastic experience, but there were no helicopters, media was [...]

Tigermania is sweeping Melbourne, and from Thursday thousands will decend on Kingston Heath to follow one man. Many will not have been to a golf tournament before. One comment I heard today was “There doesnt seem to be enough grandstands to hold everyone”, all those specatators used to the comfort of a seat [...]

No matter where you look, people worldwide are currently going ga-ga over tigers….. USA: Tiger returns to professional golf

Tiger Woods returns to the PGA tour after knee surgery and eight months off.  In his downtime, he has been working on his short game, other PGA tour players be afraid, be very afraid.  In his first tournament, [...]

Geoff Ogilvy has been a gun on the PGA Tour over recent years, with a number of wins including the US Open.  But he had never won on home soil.  He changed that with a win in the Australian PGA this weekend at Hyatt Coolum.

Going toe to toe with Mathew Goggin on the final day,  [...]