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Australia’s legendary golfer Kel Nagle turns 92 on Saturday. Nagle is golf’s oldest living Major champion having captured the Centenary Open Championship in 1960 at St. Andrews. The Sydneysider defeated the great Arnold Palmer by a stroke at the Home of Golf. In fact, the putter Nagle used to win on the Old Course is on display in the British Golf Museum situated immediatly behind the R & A clubhouse at St. Andrews. Two years later, Nagle finished runner-up to Palmer at Royal ...

Golf’s ruling bodies may not be too pleased but 53-year old Australian Peter Senior is delighted after qualifying for the 2013 Open Championship at Muirfield. Senior will be packing his prize long-handled putter into his golf bag next July for a 19th Open Championship appearance after topping the 2012 Australasian Tour Order of Merit. It was late last month golf’s ruling bodies ruled that from 2016 it will be illegal to anchor the long-handled or belly putter to any part of the body. That ...

Santa Claus has come a week early for double Major winning Rory McIlroy with the 23-year old Northern Irishman to celebrate his fifth full season in the pro ranks as undisputed World No. 1. The final ranking of 2012 was released today (Monday) in London with McIlroy 4.60 ranking points ahead of World No. 2 Luke Donald. McIlroy was undisputedly the best performed golfer all season capturing a second Major Championship, winning three other events on the PGA Tour and then finishing the year as No. ...

The 2013 BMW Italian Open is headed to a new venue and the home of the Molinari brothers. Next year’s 70th Italian Open will be staged on the Golf Club Torino course where Edoardo and Francesco Molinari honed their games. The prestigious event has been staged for the past four year at the Royal Park course while next year’s new venue is just a few kilometres from the course where Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano stormed to success this year. The Molinari brothers are still attached ...

Spain’s Sergio Garcia created Asian Tour history and contined the post Ryder Cup feel good factor becoming the seventh winning Medinah Miracle worker in capturing the rain-shortened Johor Open. Garcia posted a blistering third and final round 11-under par 61 for a three-stroke victory in the Asian Tour’s season-ending event. Garcia, 32 finished with a 54-hole 18-under par tally on the Horizon Hills for his second victory of the year and his 24th international title. He also won the ...

Unheralded Australian Daniel Popovic has captured the Australian PGA Championship. The 26-year old Victorian born Popovic led from start to finish to win his inaugural pro career tournament. Popovic carded a final round 69 to win by four shots with a 16-under par tally. However Popovic, currently ranked 1,251st in the world, was virtually handed the prestigous title when fellow Australian and double PGA Tour winner, Rod Pampling self-destructed down the last three holes. Pampling had moved two ...

It will go down as one of the strangest weeks in the history of Australian golf. The 2012 Australian PGA Championship, and one of the most prestigous events on the Australasian Tour schedule will be remembered more not for the winner but the goings on off the Coolum resort course. The week began with players being greeted by a 25-foot high roaring dinosaur named Jeff located at the back of the ninth hole. But it wasn’t Jeff making all the noise but the new owner of the resort, Clive Palmer ...