Should the Australasian Tour merge with the Asian Tour?
OGILVY'S COMMITMENT
CHAMPION Victorian professional Geoff Ogilvy has backed the Australasian PGA Tour’s decision to roll the Von Nida Tour into the country’s three marquee tournaments.
Ogilvy, in Melbourne last month to promote the upcoming season, believes a smoother pathway is needed to get Australian professionals onto overseas tours. The former US Open champion remembers his transition into the pro ranks after an illustrious amateur career.
“There was a time when you had no choice but to go overseas to earn a living instead of playing at home when...
PICTURE: The victorious Wellington Masters team, from left: Bill Cathie (manager), Jeff Sims, Frank Borren, Rodney Baltrop. Seated: Fasiupu Tuuilima and Martin Webber.
WELLINGTON won the 2008 Freyberg Masters with seven wins and 26 points, finishing off a remarkable week at Poverty Bay Golf Club with a dramatic, nail-biting final day. The final of the Freyberg Masters was fraught with tension as the two leading teams, Wellington and North Harbour, both seemed to buckle under the pressure in their crucial matches of round eight and nine.
Wellington started with a rocky...
IT’S been two long years in the golfing wilderness but Greg Chalmers is back next year competing on golf’s greatest stage – the US PGA Tour. There will be a real spring in Chalmers’ step when he gets back to Sydney after winning back full playing rights by easily finishing top-25 on the secondary Nationwide Tour.
The West Australian ended the 30-tournament season schedule this year with earnings well in excess of $US300,000. But it was in the eighth Tour event of the year, the Henrico County Open in Richmond, Virginia that put Chalmers in...
SHE was once a shy little Beverley Park junior. But these days Sarah Kemp is based out of Tuncurry, on the New South Wales north coast and is stunning some of the world’s best players on and off the course.
Kemp almost stole the show at last month’s launch of the 2009 Women of Professional Golf Calendar. Officially launched at the Handa Australia Cup in Perth, its fair to say Golfer Pacific has been flooded with calls since we featured Kristie Newton on the front page a coupe of months ago from fans wanting to know where they could get the calendar. And why not?...
THIS year’s Cadbury Schweppes Australian PGA Championship will be the seventh successive time it is staged at Hyatt Regency Coolum on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. And in that time laid-back Aussie Peter Lonard has etched his name on the Joe Kirkwood Cup three times although he did have to share the spoils with Jarrod Moseley in 2002 when bad light forced officials to declare a tie.
So, the question is: Will defending champion Lonard be in seventh heaven and win his fourth title at Coolum? Or will he be elbowed out of the way by one of Australia’s “big...
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