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It began in March 1979 when ‘The Four Founding Fathers’ managed to find their way south of Sydney to rural Bowral for a weekend of fun, frivolity and much drinking. Somehow or another the four aslo found their way to ‘Royal’ Bowral Golf Club for a game of golf. The rest, as they say, is history for now 33 years later the Willoughby Laurels Social Golf Club continues to flourish with competition held each month at golf courses in and around Sydney area. The highlight ...

The Australian Golf Writers Association (AGWA) annual dinner was held in Sydney last Saturday night with the highlight of the evening being the award of Life Membership to George Begg. George has been a tireless worker for the Association and it was rightfully pointed out at the dinner that had it not been George the AGWA may very well have founded. It was a special night for George with his wife, Sue along with daughters Nicole and Jenny plus their respective husbands David and Tom all making the ...

Rory McIlroy is not the only golfing celebrity buying up big in Florida. Tiger Woods’ ex-wife is flying the flag for  her native Sweden from the roof of her multi-million dollar mansion being built  on the Florida beachfront.  Elin Nordegren, 32, has started  her life over by spending a lot of  time and money on creating her dream home, rebuilding a $12 million North Palm  Beach estate. Elin’s five-year marriage to the former long time World No. 1 broke down in late 2009. The 21,000 ...

Organisers of this week’s Australian PGA Championship are facing a unique problem – dinosaurs. Australian billionaire Clive Palmer owns the host Coolum Resort course has been at loggerheads with Australasian PGA Tour officials over use of the course. The dispute initially centered around signage about the Queensland course with Palmer initially saying the Tour could not stage because they disagreed with Palmer erecting Titanic II signs. But since purchasing the resort in February ...

England’s Justin Rose had every reason to be disappointed after letting slip victory in the Emirates Australian Open in Sydney. The World No. 4 shared the lead with Australia’s Peter Senior on three under par with eight holes remaining in blustery and cold conditions over the inward nine on The Lakes course. Rose, competing in only his second Australian Open since making his debut in 1998, eventually carded a final round 76 to share fourth place on one under par and three behind Senior. Senior, ...

Peter Senior handed golf’s ruling bodies further dilemna in using a long-handled putter to become the oldest-ever winner of the Australian Open. A dozen days earlier the R & A and USGA announced a ban would come into effect in 2016 outlawing any anchoring of the long-handled and belly putter to the body. Senior becomes the first player anywhere in the world to win since details of the ban were announced. Senior defied extremely blustery conditions in Sydney to win by a shot with a final round ...

As www.golfbytourmiss.com exclusively revealed earlier today, Peter Senior has officially become the oldest-ever winner of the Emirates Australian Open. The 53-year old Senior is 10 years older than legendary fellow Australia Peter Thomson who was aged 43 in capturing the 1972 Australian Open at the Kooyonga Club in Adelaide. It was only two years ago, Senior created Australasian Tour history when at age 51 he became the oldest winner of a Tour event in capturing the Australian PGA title and in ...