Should the Australasian Tour merge with the Asian Tour?
SHARK TO FEAST ON YANKS
WHEN Greg Norman speaks people listen – all around the world.
And when the Great White Shark says that in maybe 20 years, or even in 30, the Presidents Cup will be as big as the Ryder Cup, well, you just have to listen and nod. And Norman is certain that will be the case.
So while Norman will captain the International side at next year’s event, even he is already looking further ahead and almost certainly will throw his name into the ring to captain the side again when the Presidents Cup comes to Australia in 2011.
Of course, he...
WITH a howling wind challenging those at Nelson Golf Club to even stand upright let alone strike a ball, The Toro ended in spectacular fashion with a storming win by Waikato.
Waikato staged a stunning comeback over the closing holes to score a dramatic win against Auckland.
With four holes to play Auckland called the shots, ahead 3 1/2- 1 1/2, but the Waikato players, as they had done all week when in tight situations, dug deep and reeled off the pars on a wind-swept course where par was often a winning score.
The match turned Waikato’s...
(PICTURED) Stuart Appleby with some of the many kids he’s introduced to golf.
STUART Appleby is nuts about getting more youngsters to take up the game.
The boy from Cohuna has a vision that extends beyond his own personal goals: he wants to see every golf club in Australia embrace junior golf.
And Appleby isn’t sitting around waiting for that to happen.
The PGA Tour champion has invested his own time and money to bring golf to young boys and girls throughout the state.
And in just four years of...
ENGLISH star Lee Westwood will be looking to replicate one of the great finishes of Australian golf when he heads to Perth in a few weeks for the Johnnie Walker Classic at Perth’s famous Vines Resort and Country Club.
Westwood vividly remembers overcoming his boyhood idol Greg Norman in a sudden-death playoff to decide the 1997 Australian Open Championship.
On that occasion a youthful Westwood wore down the Great White Shark to win at the fourth hole of the playoff at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne.
Westwood has had the busiest of...
TRAVEL doesn’t bother Ernie Els. For that reason both Perth and Sydney will be on his radar this summer when the big fellow heads Down Under.
Els confirmed to the Golfer Pacific that he intends to contest next year’s Johnnie Walker Classic at The Vines.
And from there he likely to also make a flying visit to Sydney to check on the progress of his first signature Australian golf course, at Wilton, about 70 minutes south-west of the Sydney CBD.
Reports suggest the new course will be a spectacular layout using the Bingara Gorge to...
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