On Par – All about golf in Australia

Had a quick short game lesson with pro Kevin at Albert Park with Rob. Problem: stance too open, too much wrist. Lead to inconsistent distance, decellerating downswing, fat, thin, in short, a mess! Solution: straight stance, swing with shoulders/arms, min wrist, 70% weight on left. Move ball fwd in stance for higher flight.

Nige chips up to the short 5th hole on the Moonah Links Legends Course

After a warm up nine holes on the Open course the previous afternoon, Chris, Emma, Nige and myself teed off on the Moonah Links Legends course. The Legends course is a very different layout to the Open course, it winds through [...]

7 of the best at Moonah Links

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Played a late 9 holes on Moonah links Open course with Nige & Chris after a planning day. Great weather, and the swing was in rare form. Driver was long and straight, irons good, putts on line. Even after 6 holes with birdies on both [...]

The Australian Open has finally got itself back on track after Fridays postponement for 5 hours threatened to throw the Open into Chaos, reminding of the Open at Victoria not long ago. Strong winds and quick greens made the course virtually unplayable (though Im sure the members at NSW were sniggering in their beers [...]

John Daly is back down under to play the Australian Open at New South Wales Golf Club. Sporting a leaner meaner look, he is maintaining his golf fashionista status wearing a seriously bright set of checked pants. Hope John makes the cut, both to watch his entertaining game (first round was a rollercoaster even par [...]

The 2009 Australian Open is off to a great start. Played at the spectacular and very British Open looking New South Wales Golf Club, the leaderboard after Day One features Appleby and Hend on top, with Nitties and Scott amongst others close behind. Hend was off early getting the better weather conditions carding [...]

Headed to Yarra Bend Golf Course after work yesterday for a round of golf with Nige. Yarra Bend offers unlimited golf on a weekday from 3pm for just $15.

We teed off just after 5:30pm, a couple of solo golfers ahead of us, no-one behind. Great conditions, clear and a bit of [...]

Next week Tiger Woods arrived in Australia for the first time in over a decade to play the Australian Masters.  Bringing Tiger to Melboune is a massive coup for the tournament organisers and a huge boost for golf in Melbourne and Australia.  Sydney battled Melbourne to win the Tiger prize, Sydney ended up with Brian [...]

Played an early Friday round of golf at Yarra Bend with colleagues Emma, Nic, Chris and Nige. Teed off a 6:30am on a sensational morning. With not many other players out we teed off as a 5 on the backnine.

Yarra Bend is in excellent condition, especially for the amount of traffic the course [...]

Want to play golf like Tiger Woods? Just drink his sports drink!

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