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AARON BADDELEY INTERVIEW (2013)   In late 1999 Aaron Baddeley surprised Australian golf when the then relatively unknown amateur won the biggest prize in Australian golf – the Australian Open title at Royal Sydney. It was the first time since 1960 when then also amateur Bruce Devlin was handed the gleaming Stonehaven Trophy. A year later Baddedly, and now a rookie professional, again defied all the odds to successfully the defend the title at the Kingston Heath club in Melbourne. What ...

World Cup winning hero Jason Day will return to competition at this week’s Australian with the goal of eventually reaching Number One in the world. The 27-year old jumped six spots to World No. 11 on the back of his two shot victory at Royal Melbourne. Day arrived in Sydney on Monday morning to begin preparations for his first Australian Open title in two years but his first-ever appearance at the Royal Sydney Golf Club. The Ohio-based Day reached a World Ranking high on No. 7 after finishing third ...

Double Major-winning Rory McIlroy admits he facing a tough task to silence Adam Scott in pulling off the “Australian Grand Slam” at the Australian Open in Sydney. Scott is in red-hot form having already captured the Australian PGA and Australian Masters this month and victory at Royal Sydney would give him the coveted “Australian Grand Slam”. In preparation, McIlroy has spent the past week in Dubai working on his game after finishing fifth in his defence of the European Race ...

World Cup winning hero, Jason Day has called on Olympic Games officials to consider sticking with the ‘team’ element to competition when golf returns to the Olympics in 2016 at Rio de Janeiro. Golf will be staged in both the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics for a first time since 1904 but as a ‘demonstration’ sport, and with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to vote in 2017 as to whether to reintroduce the sport full time from 2024. This week’s $8m World Cup of Golf was an intended ...

Jason Day has helped end a 24-year long winless drought to deliver Australia victory in the World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne. Day combined with reigning Masters champion, Adam Scott in storming to victory by a massive 10 shots and claim success for a first occasion fellow Australians Wayne Grady and Peter Fowler captured the 1989 World Cup of Golf in Spain. And it is also the first occasion Australia has lifted the trophy at Royal Melbourne since Peter Thomson and Kel Nagle did so in the 1959 ...

Double Major winning Rory McIlroy must surely have had a few laughs on his flight from Dubai to Sydney for this week’s Australian Open. McIlroy found himself sitting in first class beside American-born comedian Will Ferrell. McIlroy tweeted: Rory Mcilroy ‏@McIlroyRory19h Sydney here I come! My @Bose QC20’s to help me enjoy the flight along with Will Ferrell in the seat next to me!! … Ferrell is in Australia, and joining fellow stars Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and David Koechner along ...

A putting lesson from his physio helped Graeme McDowell kiss and make-up with the Grand Old Lady of Australian golf on day three of the ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf at Royal Melbourne. McDowell finally got himself under par to be three under par with a round in the $8m event. He could then dine out with delight at the Stoke House and one of Melbourne’s famed restaurants located a short distance from the Melbourne CBD and situated on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, and also just a street away from ...