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Visiting American Brandt Snedeker is headed for an early exit in his first appearance in the Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Pines Resort on Queensland’s Gold Coast. The seven-time PGA Tour winner, who captured this year’s AT & T Pebble National Pro-Am, looked more like a weekend amateur slumping to his worse ever score of a 12-over par 84. You can check Snedeker’s PGA Tour record back to 2005 and the highest score he’s shot is a handful of 80s with the last being ...

Organisers of this week’s inaugural Asian Tour Ho Tram Open in Vietnam got together the overseas stars in a James Bond-like preview. Sergio Garcia in ‘tuxs’ arrived at the resort course on a chopper while former US Open winner Geoff Ogilvy is shown walking along the beach. European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke, also in a dinner suit, is seen seated in the back of a gleaming BMW nursing the Ryder Cup. The World No. 12 ranked Garcia is on a mission to win the inaugural US$1.5 million event ...

Rookie Irish professional Paul Dunne has travelled nearly 17,000 klms to Australia’s Gold Coast just to tee-up for a first time as a full European Tour members. This week’s Australian PGA Championship, being staged on the Royal Pines Resort course, is the first time the event is being co-sanctioned by the European Tour. The event, along with the corresponding Nedbank Challenge in South Africa, share the honours as the first events of the Tour’s 2015/16 wraparound schedule. And being a Ryder ...

This week’s Australian PGA Championship will mark a new era in The European Tour when the oldest and most prestigious event on the PGA Tour of Australasia is co-sanctioned for the first time at RACV Royal Pines Resort. No fewer than 20 different nationalities will be represented in the field, with European Tour winners such as Scott Jamieson, Edoardo Molinari and Peter Uihlein lining up alongside a host of Australians who have tasted success on The European Tour including Stephen Allan, Robert ...

In keeping with his Lone Star State up-bringing Masters champion Jordan Spieth intends hosting a ‘Texas Bar-b-que’ at next April’s Augusta National ‘Champions Dinner’. The 22-year old Spieth gets to play dinner host after having stormed his way earlier this year to a maiden Major triumph by four strokes at the Georgia golfing gem. And in a recent Masters tradition Spieth has chosen to host an outdoors bar-b-que as South African Charl Schwartzel did in 2012. However it won’t be South African ...

Matt Jones celebration in winning the Australian Open could be soured later next month should he miss out on an invitation into next year’s Masters at Augusta National. Jones victory at the Australian Club in Sydney has seen him jump 30 places to the new World No. 51. However it just one place, and just  0.0142 of a World Ranking point shy from earning an automatic exemption into the New Year’s traditional first Major by ending the year inside the top-50. The 35-year olf Arizona-based ...

It was an historic occasion on the eve of the final round of the 100th Australian Open at the annual Association of Golf Writers Australia (AGWA) Annual Dinner. Present at the dinner held at the Bonnie Doon Golf Club was four Australian-born Major Champions – Five time Open winner Peter Thomson, double Major winning David Graham, 1991 Open winner Ian Baker-Finch and 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy. However in a first it was the first occasion the now Texas-based Graham and Ogilvy were together ...