Melbourne golfers are breathing a sigh of relief tonight after Golf Australia confirmed the sport can continue to operate under the state’s strict new Stage 3 lockdown laws set to be enforced from 11.59pm on Wednesday, July 8.
This week’s one-time visit to Muirfield Village Golf Club for the Workday Charity Open should not be considered in any manner a warm-up for the annual Memorial Tournament that promptly follows.
The three-hour program will incorporate 50 years of archive footage, edited with modern graphics and commentary, to simulate a “competition” between past champions of different eras on the Old Course at St Andrews.
The founder of the First Swing program on connecting with kids, making golf more appealing for juniors and how he came to drive a Ferrari owned by a Saudi prince.
En route to a five-under-par 67 on Saturday in the Rocket Mortgage Classic that has him three strokes behind leader Matthew Wolff, DeChambeau got testy with a cameraman after he hit a greenside bunker shot on the sixth hole.
To completely whiff on a golf swing is an embarrassment to anybody at any level. To have it happen in a professional tour event – well, we had never seen it, until now.
Australian Golf Digest
