Hey Greg, I’ve Won The Australian Open. Greg? I’ve Won The Australian Open.
“Hey Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open?” “Greg? I’ve Won the Australian Open”.
The words from Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley sharing his emotions with Aussie golfing great Greg Norman soon after capturing the 1991 Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
As we head into the final round of the first Australian Open at Royal Melbourne since all those many years ago, the memories from that December 1st, 1991 continue to be among the fondest in my reporting on ...
Getting To Know Gil Hanse & Being His Driver To Castle Stuart
Gil Hanse continues to stamp his growing presence as one of the leaders in golf course design work and even moreso with the latest news his services have been retained by Scotland’s famed North Berwick course.
The story of Gil’s newest golf course assignment appears on Golf Course Architecture website and you can read all the news by clicking on: www.golfcoursearchitecture.net
We learnt also just a week ago with TGL (TMRW Golf League) announcing Hanse has joined the league’s ...
Al Hamra Enriches A Middle East Golfing Gem
One of the more recent delights in travelling to the Middle East for rounds of the DP World Tour has been visiting the UAE emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah and tackling the wonderful Al Hamra course.
Al Hamra is very easy 90-minute or so drive north of Dubai through the Emirate of Sharjah and onto Ras Al-Khaimah, and with the golf course and surrounding hotels among the first items of interest in visiting a very laid back emirate than compared with Dubai.
Among those ‘items’ is the stunning ...
Five Years Exactly From The Darkest Dark In PGA Tour History
Friday 13th March, 2020 – the darkest day in the history of the PGA Tour.
The day the PGA Tour, and at their very home in Ponte Vedra, Florida and the hosting of the 2020 Players Championship, led the major US-based sporting authorities with news the Tour was going a CovEid pandemic lockdown.
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama had posted an opening Thursday first round with a course record equallying 63 on the host Stadium course at TPC Sawgrass but no sooner had play ended for the day and rumours ...
Sadness Within Golf, Reminding Us We’ve Lost Another Family Member.
The emotional golf-related news in recent weeks continues to remind us all there is so much more to golf than trying to hit a golf ball around a golf course in the least number of shots you can.
There’s been a few stories that have pulled hard at the heart strings.
Sad news of Tiger’s beloved mother, Kultida passing away over-showered everything in golf. No, everything in sport!
Tiger was still very much in mourning when he unexpectedly attended the final day of the Genesis Invitational ...
Obed Mbatha – Durban’s Renowned Badgeman, Proudly Wearing An Open Championship Badge.
There seems to be always someone you meet in the course of travelling to report on golf touraments who leaves a lasting impression, an impression in the nicest manner.
Someone other than those working on the Tour and travelling back and forward to tournaments.
Those volunteering to drive the courtesy cars or the buses back and forward from the hotel to the golf course or a security person working the tournament media centre simply checking each day your entry badge while it could be someone ...
Some 60,000 Packed Into Kings Stadium Where Outside Monty Was Hitting Shots Between The Goal Posts.
This week’s Investec South African Open has returned for a first time in 15-years to the stunning Durban County Club course laid out close to the Indian Open shoreline.
Though it was 11 years ago when the now-named DP World Tour was last in South Africa’s third largest city and that was for the third and final hosting of the ‘winners only’ Volvo Champions event on this week’s host venue.
I had attended the opening Volvo Champions in 2011 in Bahrain before it was then ...
