On Par – All about golf in Australia

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 (his 18th) [...]

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 scarce and there [...]

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 at the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Greg Norman won his second British Open 15 years ago, and was only playing in The Open to get a bit of practice for the Seniors British Open! The Shark is now a spritely 53 years old and leading the Open by two shots going into the final round. Many hours of sleep have been [...]

The legend of Tiger Woods career inked another chapter last weekend as he played the final rounds, and an 18 hole playoff with Rocco Mediate in obvious pain thanks to a dodgy knee.  It wasnt until he had won on the first extra hole of the 18 hole playoff (the 91st hole!), that he revealed [...]

Half way point in the US Open at Torrey Pines.  The coverage is not ideal, every single practice swing and shot taken by Tiger or Phil is shown and replayed, meanwhile the rest of the field gets occassional airtime.  Even Adam Scott playing with the super twosome is only shown now and then.  Sure, Tiger [...]

Immers wins the Masters Trevor Immelman lead the US Masters from start to finish, eventually winning by a comfortable 3 shots.  Though he would have had the heart thumping out of his shirt after hitting into the water on 16 to double bogey just as Tiger birdied the last.  Immers held it together down the [...]

The US Masters has teed off for another year on the manicured, pedicured, buffed and polished Augusta National.  And yet again, the two main stories in the Australian media are: a) How many shots will Tiger win by and will Tiger win the real Grand Slam this year (as opposed to the Tiger Slam when [...]