The 2010 ANZ Ladies Masters has secured the strongest field ever assembled for a golf tournament in this country, men or women.READ MORE
He’s the busiest man in Australian Golf and calls all the big shots. And with golf facing another breakthrough year in 2010, Golfer Pacific decided to put Golf Australia CEO Stephen Pitt in the firing line. READ MORE
A British Open berth, Japan Tour qualification and a new lease on life has the big-hitting Kurt Barnes on the verge of something very special in 2010. READ MORE
ONE of Australian golf’s rising stars, Daniel Nisbet will be forced to spend the next 18 months away from competition after he was slapped with an 18-month ban for the possession of a prohibited substance. READ MORE
THREE-NIGHT STAY & PLAY TO DENARAU FIJI competition winner announced! CLICK HERE
We decided to kick off the New Year by getting the best players in the world to share their thoughts on golf's inclusion in the 2016 Olympic Games. READ MORE
US-BASED golfer Cathryn Bristow has become just the third New Zealander to gain entry to the LPGA Tour. Bristow, who represented New Zealand at the Espirito Santo World Teams. READ MORE
Michael Sim last year smashed a number of Nationwide Tour records enroute to being awarded the 2009 Player of the Year. Now, as Golfer Pacific’s BERNIE MCGUIRE reveals, this quietly-spoken 25-year-old from Perth is ready to sound his presence on the toughest stage. READ MORE
Australia’s rising star, Tamie Durdin hopes the dream is only just beginning. Winning a ticket on the US LPGA tour for 2010 is simply the first step on a journey she hopes will have the ultimate finale. READ MORE
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GOLF TOPS TENNIS AS AUSSIES HEAD GREENSIDE IT is official! Despite reports of dwindling playing numbers across the board, golf is actually fast becoming Australia’s most popular pastime with a significant increase in latest participation figures. The figures, released as part of the Australian Sports Commission’s annual Exercise, Recreation and Sport Survey, rank golf as the most popular club-based activity for 2008, overtaking tennis in top spot following a substantial total participation increase.
Total golf participation increased in 2008 by more than 260,000 - an incredible 29 per cent jump from 2007....
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SON OF PAYNE ON THE HORIZON PHOTO: The late Payne Stewart is embraced by his caddie Mike Hicks after winning the 1999 US Open at Pinehurst No.2.
IF a young bloke by the name of Aaron Stewart ever makes it to the top in golf, a couple of Australians will have had a plenty to do with it.
News from the USA last month was that the late and great Payne Stewart’s son Aaron was teeing it up in a major amateur championship at Pinehurst No.2 course. This was the venue where dad Payne won his third major, the 1999 US Open, only three months before his tragic death, at the age of 42, in a freak aeroplane...
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BONNIE, BONNIE SCOTT FINDS ROMANCE QUEENSLAND star Adam Scott received a boost on the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond when Serbian tennis beauty Ana Ivanovic turned up to watch him contest the Barclays Scottish Open.
Scott was spotted at Wimbledon watching Ivanovic compete and their relationship was confirmed when she travelled north to Scotland to support her Queensland-born boyfriend. Scott has had a hectic time off the golf course since splitting up with his long-term girlfriend and that has been reflected in his golf.
He had plunged from a height of third and heir apparent in the majors...
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