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Golf Blog - Bowral course review

Well last weekend saw me treck down to Bowral, about 1 hour south of Sydney to play in an annual social golf club tournament ‘the Koobaloya Cup’.

The event is a two day event using a stableford handicap system (thank god). the schedule kicked off with us teeing off in groups of 4 at 1.30pm on the Saturday followed by a massive night on the turps and then a 9.30 tee off on Sunday.

Saturday was a beautiful day and the course in really good condition. Unfortunately my golf wasn’t. Even with a huge handicap I still only managed to scrape up 26 stableford points.

Saturday night was a great night finished up with a 2.30 am finish and a very sore head on the Sunday mornig for tee off. That being said maybe I should drink before golf more often because I finshed the day in 2nd place on 39 stableford points. maybe the sore head forced me to keep the head down. [Read more →]

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Golf Blog - Bridgestone ball review

Through advanced polymer engineering, Bridgestone delivers another technological breakthrough. The new e6+ provides superior performance with a straighter more accurate ball flight and a softer feel through its advanced Low Compression Multi-Layer contstruction.

The e6+ Multi-Layer design with its innovative Anti-Spin/Extra Velocity Inner Cover is engineered for players seeking a straighter ball flight with longer carry distance and roll.

The enhanced low compression design provides an extra soft feel on all shots and a smooth roll off the putter. The 330 Seamless dimple design delivers advanced aerodynamics for a consistent trajectory leading to pin-point accuracy.

source: www.iseekgolf.com.au

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Great wedge shot by Natalie Gublis. Teach this guys to sleep in the stands:-)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6igp66VXs8

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Callaway Diablo edge review

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Golf Blog - Coplicks

As previously posted during a previous review Coplicks at Tallebudgera on Queenslands Gold Coast is a good course to get out and have a social hack with friends……or so I thought.

I travelled to Coplicks this past weekend for a social hit with friends as a group of 4. We were teeing off at 6am to avoid getting caught up in the weekend social comp that starts at 6.30. One of our playing party turned up with a friend who has only emigrated from Scotland 3 days ago to have a walk around the course with us not knowing that Coplicks have a no non players policy.

The policy itself is fair enough so our new Australian paid his fees as a player with the intention of just accompanying his new friends along to enjoy the company and the conversation. he had never played golf before and just wanted to see what the game was all about.

We played as a group of 4 and 1 non player (although paid full fees to walk the course) until the end of the second hole when we were approached by the course marshall (playing in the group behind us mind you) who rudely informed us that our non player despite paying his fees must either play or leave the course and that as we were now a group of 5 needed to split into two groups. [Read more →]

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golf blog - golfing great Robert Allenby

Robert Allenby is the 2009 Australian PGA Champion, running out a convincing winner after a rock solid final round of 66 gave none of those lining up to challenge in the final round at the Hyatt Regency Coolum a chance.

Allenby missed only one green in an impressive display, doing what he had to in order to hold those lined up behind at bay, eventually wining by four over Scott Strange and John Senden with Marc Leishman alone in 4th position one shot further back.

For the Victorian it was his 4th PGA Championship in the last ten years, the first two coming at the Royal Queensland in 2000 and 2001, the third in 2005 and now this year’s clinical victory. He joins an elite group of Australian golfers with four or more PGA Championships to their name. That list includes the likes of Kel Nagle, Norman Von Nida and Bill Dunk. [Read more →]

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golf blog - tiger is human

Tiger Woods – the name conjures images of a golfing legend, a superstar sportsman who’s name is always mentioned when we are debating things like best sportsmen of all time, best of the best, etc.

His talent on the golf course is unquestionable, unwavering and all conquering. Golfers of all ages look to emulate his talent, his style and his look right across the golfing planet. On the golf course he is without doubt – the King!

These last few weeks the situation off the course has become a nightmare for Tiger with the now well covered list of ‘trangressions’ covered in the media. Even those few non-golfers out there who for some reason hadn’t yet heard of Tigers golfing exploits are now hearing his name and talking about his off course exploits and discussing them around the water cooler.

These transgressions of course bring into serious doubt Tigers moral compass when it comes to fidelity. But does this change his ability to play golf, or how he approaches each new shot. Of course not.

How Tiger handles his off course ‘transgressions’ will measure Tiger as a man and a role model in society but when it comes to the Golf course he is and will remain for many years to come a force to be reckoned with.

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Original piece by Brent Lupton

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Golf Blog - Appleby on fire

That which makes the New South Wales Golf Club such a great golf course is that which makes it so vulnerable, namely its proximity to the ocean and the elements that come with such a location.

In the opening two days of this week’s Australian Open, the layout displayed both sides of its character. From the magnificence of day one’s early morning conditions to the point where early on day two it became necessary to suspend play for 5½ hours the golf course, this was our great game at its best and worst. [Read more →]

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Golf blog - tiger troubles

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