Triple Victory Treat For Natham Holman In Capturing Australian PGA Championship.

Australia’s Natham Holman savoured a triple victory treat in capturing the Australian PGA Championship at the Royal Pines course on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Not only did the Victorian-born Holman join some of the greats of Australian golf in adding his name to the Joe Kirkwood trophy but Holman secured a place into next year’s 145th Open Championship by finishing the top-ranked player on the 2015 Australasian Tour Order of Merit. As well, Holman’s victory opened the door on ...

Paul Casey Saving His Best For Season-Ender In The Bahamas.

England’s Paul Casey is off to a good start in his final chance to win a tournament this year. Casey birdied the final hole at Albany Golf Club on Thursday for a 6-under 66 that gave him a share of the first-round lead with Jimmy Walker and Zach Johnson in the Hero World Challenge. The scenery and tropical sunshine made it feel like a working vacation, and a gentle breeze off the tip of New Providence island only added to the relaxation. Hideki Matsuyama (75) was the only player in the 18-man ...

Brandt Snedeker Slumps To Career Worse Score – A Horror Australian PGA 84.

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 ...

Darren Clarke & Fellow Euros In ‘James Bond’ Type Arrival At Ho Tram Open.

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 ...

Paul Dunne Travels 16,700 Klms To Tee Up First Time As Full European Tour Member.

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 ...

Australian PGA – Australia’s Oldsest Event Becomes European Tour’s Newest Tournament.

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 ...

Jordan Spieth Hosting Texas-Theme Bar-B-Que At 2016 Augusta ‘Former Champions Dinner’.

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 ...