Should the Australasian Tour merge with the Asian Tour?
LEE BECOMES YOUNGEST WINNER OF US AMATEUR
NEW Zealand golfer Danny Lee has become the youngest player to win the US Amateur Golf Championship.
The 18-year-old produced some sublime golf to win the final 5 and 4 against American Drew Kittleson at North Carolina.
The Rotorua player, who turned 18 last month, is six months younger than Tiger Woods was when he first won the US Amateur.
Lee rammed home a remarkable 12 birdies in an astonishing display to demolish the American who shot a superb five-under par but was no match for the Kiwi.
“I played incredibly well and I...
WEST Australian golf fans are in for a real treat this summer. The 2009 Johnnie Walker Classic promises a star-studded field when it gets underway on February 19.
But the major drawcard is the inclusion of former world-number one Greg Norman. The Shark has confirmed he’ll play at The Vines Resort. And promoter IMG along with Tourism West Australian couldn’t be happier that he’s teeing up.
“Greg’s presence will give Australian golf fans the rare opportunity to watch their greatest ever golfer in action on home soil alongside a host...
Back to defend . . . Australian Open champion Craig Parry will defend the title on his back doorstep in Sydney this year.
SYDNEY will host the Australian Open for the next eight years. Hitting off with this year’s Open at Royal Sydney, the Open looks certain to rotate around Sydney’s “big four” courses – The Australian, Royal Sydney, the Lakes and the new host venue, New South Wales.
The magnificent La Perouse layout many rate as second only to Royal Melbourne as Australia’s best layout has already been confirmed as the venue for the 2009...
IT’S not a major championship. It’s not even a million dollars.
Yet if there’s one thing that Aussie Rod Pampling would like for his 39th birthday this month it’s a third tour victory. Oh yes, and a spot in next year’s International Presidents Cup team.
But that’s partly because it will be captained by Pamps’ boyhood idol Greg Norman. The other things will look after themselves. And why wouldn’t they?
Pampling has carved a superb niche for himself, earning more than a $US1m a season in the United...
TWO-TIME Australian Masters champion Brad Hughes will take an “extended hiatus’’ from the game in an effort to put the trauma of a bitter divorce behind him.
Hughes, who has been playing on the secondary American Nationwide Tour this year, has started a new job as an instructor at a golf shop near his home in Greenville, South Carolina.
It’s not quite the future the Victorian had in mind when he earned his way back to the obscenely lucrative US PGA Tour in 2005.
But the fallout from his divorce has left him without the...
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