My Daughter’s Are Not Leaving This House Until That Warship Has Left Town.
Late June, 2001 and the Murphy’s Irish Open is taking place for a first time in Cork in the very south of Ireland.
It’s the eight different host venue since the relaunch in 1975, and after 22-year break, of Ireland’s premier event.
The first Irish Open I attended was in 1993 at Mt. Juliet and where Nick Faldo won a third straight Irish Open title after having finished first in both 1991 and 1992 at Killarney Golf and Fishing club.
The Fota Island club is to the east to east of Cork ...
Bernie’s Tales On Tour – Short Socks & Long Socks Golfing With 500cc World Champ Kevin Schwantz
Australia has always been and forever continue to be a great sport-loving and I discovered that even more getting involved in sports reporting.
Greg Norman was not only winning at home but he was enjoying enormous success around the world and so too were other Australians in their chosen sport whether it was cricket, rugby league and also a prior unknown Wayne ‘Wollongong Wizard’ Gardner who was bringing motor-cycle racing to the fore like never before.
Gardner capped his career capturing ...
Bernie – How It All Began – Part 2 & The Best Part.
Saturday night, 19th March, 1988 …
The NSW State Election is won by the Liberal/National coalition led by Nick Greiner winning 59 seats compared to 43 seats to the Labour Party headed by then Premier Barry Unsworth.
Twelve years of Labour rule had come to an abupt end. After six years savouring the best job I could have imagined, I am now technically out of work but alas, and sadly unlike a few on Treasurer Ken Booth’s staff, I was still an employee of the Premier’s Department ...
Bernie’s Tales On Tour – Chapter 1. How It All Began … Part 1.
It has been mentioned often I should write a book.
Maybe I should, given I have been walking around with a media badge either around neck or pinned to my shirt since the early to mid 1980s.
I had been drawn into tournament golf by Australian great Greg Norman who, in the mid-70s to early ’80s, was seemingly winning everything.
Indeed, Norman won 13 of an eventual 32 Australasian Tour events from 1976 to end of 1984. He returned home a year later and went on to win another 19 ‘home’ ...
Hey Greg (Norman), Which ‘E’ Was It In The FedEx Sign?
The staging of this week’s 2020 WGC – FedEx St. Jude Invitational rekindles memoris of my first visit to Memphis in attending the 1997 FedEx St. Jude Classic.
Greg Norman was also making a first appearance in the event in 12-years and I headed to Tennessee to report on the tournament for Australian Associated Press.
Norman was also the reigning Australian Open champion having captured a fifth Stonehaven Trophy some seven months earlier. He then won the Andersen Consulting World Championship ...
DJ Bowled By A ‘Googly’ Facing Up To A McIlroy Mystery Ball.
Dustin Johnson spoke eloquently of his friendship and admiration for Rory McIlroy but he was bowled middle stump by a ‘googly’ when reminded a McIlroy stroke of brilliance.
Johnson joined Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff for a pre-tournament press conference ahead of Sunday’s TaylorMade-hosted ‘Sunday at Seminole’.
McIlroy, who will team with Johnson, was unavailable on the telephone hook-up for reasons unknown.
However, in the absence of the current World No. 1 it seemed opportune ...
McDowell’s Mum Gets Lost But G Mac Finds His Way To RBC Heritage Victory
RBC Heritage week that should be concluding today at Hilton Head is one of the more-popular Tour destinations on the schedule.
It’s the week eveyone looks forward and especially following the drama and the stress of the Masters and with players, caddies, officials and fans very much enjoying the relaxed vacation setting at Hilton Head.
The only real concern is not to speed along highway 278 and probably the most direct route from Augusta to Hilton Head. It’s around a 135-mile, leisurely two-and-a-half-hour ...
