On Par – All about golf in Australia

The PGA tour are currently playing the Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale Stadium course, Arizona. The 16th hole is well known as the party hole, beer is plentiful as fans get on the amber liquid and the atmosphere resembles more football match than golf crowd. Some of the pro’s thrive on the noise, others hate [...]

Finally the Australian Masters is underway, after a much less hyped lead-up to the event. Practice days and pro-am crowds were back to normal numbers, lets just play golf! Early starters are already out on the course, with benign conditions providing brilliant scoring conditions, couple of players are already picking off a few birdies, the [...]

Melbourne’s Herald-Sun are reporting the USPGA are looking to add an Australian event to the tour schedule. Given the tour already has an event in Asia with the HSBC Champions event in China, adding an Australian event shouldnt be impossible. The Australian Masters would be a logical event given the increased hype due to Tiger, [...]

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 a bunker/hazard [...]

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, a [...]

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 and the [...]

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 Tigers star is [...]

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 asking the [...]

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 [...]

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 underway [...]