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Darren Clarke is set to roar in his final event of the year after the replica dinosaur named ‘Jeff’ and at the centre of this week’s bizarre Australian PGA Championship has been silenced. Owners of the Palmer Coolum Resort course on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast located some two hours north of Brisbane have agreed to switch off the mechanical 25-foot high dinosaur located at the back of the ninth hole. Clarke has returned to the event for the second of a three-year deal he signed ...

Congratulations to BMW and their team with the BMW Championship being named PGA Tour ‘Tournament of the Year . The BMW Championship has only been a part of the PGA Tour schedule for a few years but they’ve shown some of the vintage tournaments how to run an event. And it’s the same on the European Tour with www.golfbyourmiss.com soon to annouce it’s awards for 2012 and there’s no secret the three BMW hosted tournaments are once again riding high in the awards. The award ...

Peter Senior has dismissed the controversial 61-grass Titantic II advertising signs dotted around the Coolum layout along with the 25-foot high replica dinosaur named Jeff spotting about this week’s Australian PGA Championship course. “No it doesn’t worry me, as long as the dinosaur doesn’t crap anywhere we’ll be right,” said Senior smiling Senior tried to play down his chances of securing back-to-back tournament victories at this week’s Australian PGA ...

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 ...