AT & T Canyons Course – Out Of The Mist Emerges A Clear Texas Star.
One of the pleasures in attending any golf tournament is the opportunity to play a round of golf.
What made the visit to the 2014 Valero Texas Open more pleasurable is that it was to be my first game of golf ever in the Lone Star State of Texas.
Unfortunately when we gathered around 8am at the opening tee of the AT & T Canyons course at TPC San Antonio you could not see more than 50 yards due to fog.
But while the fog delayed the start of the play on day one of the Valero Texas Open it didn’t ...
Bathurst Golf Club: A Truly Australian Rural Golfing Gold Nugget.
Bathurst Golf Club is the third oldest golf club in the Australian state of New South Wales.
It is situated some three hours west of Sydney in a region where gold was first discovered in Australia.
Future Open Champion Roberto De Vincenzo unearthed a golden vein of form shooting a course record on a visit to Bathurst, while fellow Open championship winner Kel Nagle enjoyed playing the course regularly.
However in recent years it has been local heroes Peter O’Malley and Gavin Coles who have ...
Innisbrook Resort Tampa Bay Shines Brightly In The Sunshine State.
Florida has long been golfing capital of the United States with over 2,500 golf courses in America’s 27th State.
That’s more golf courses than any other State.
Though there’s one golfing resort shining brighter than most in the Sunshine State and that’s the much-acclaimed Innisbrook Resort.
In fact, Innisbrook Resort boasts not one golfing complex in Florida but three – Innisbrook at Tampa Bay, Renunion in Orlando and Hammock Beach at Palm Coast.
Our focus this past ...
Arabian Ranches Golf Club – Henrik Stenson’s Caddy Knows Best.
Last year Henrik Stenson created golfing history becoming the first player to win both the FedEx Cup and the European No. 1 title in the same season.
Contributing to the Swede’s success was his England-born caddy Gareth ‘Lordy’ Lord.
Weeks early ‘Lordy’ had been voted ‘Caddy of the Year’ during the course of the WGC – Champions in Shanghai.
It was the second occasion ‘Lordy’ had be so honoured as five years earlier he was presented with ...
Long Reef Golf Club – A Stunning Sydney Seaside Course Never Short On Reward.
One of the great pleasures in returning to Sydney at the end of yet another long year reporting on golf around the world is foremost catching up with family and friends .
Of course, it also being summer means there is the opportunity to don the shorts and sun glasses and enjoy a few games of golf including a game on one of the best kept secrets in Sydney – Long Reef Golf Club.
Long Reef is located about 20 kilometers from the heart of Australia’s greatest city on the famed northern ...
Metropolitan Golf Club- Marvelous Melbourne ‘Sandbelt’ Golfing Gem.
What does the marvelous Melbourne Metropolitan Golf Club course and its unique bunkering have in common with a 100 kilometer long stretch of golden sand on the Atlantic Ocean west coast of Senegal?
The answer is almost nothing!
It’s just that so many wonderful words have been penned about his famed ‘Sandbelt’ gem I found myself struggling for an introduction to this feature.
It was Friday of the World Cup of Golf week and after a late afternoon call the day before, Peter Paccagnan, the General ...
Euroa Golf Club, Victoria, Australia … Monday Morning Delight.
It was the day after the 2013 World Cup of Golf and a lovely cloudless Monday morning as we headed north from Melbourne bound for Sydney and the Australian Open.
We were staring at a near 800 kilometre drive but were only about two hours into the journey when we decided to get off the Hume Highway to visit the Victorian rural town of Euroa.
The town was made famous by legendary Australian bush ranger Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang when on 10th December, 1878 they head up the staff of the National Bank ...
