Inbee Park sized up a 12-metre birdie put at the last hole at Royal Adelaide Saturday and surely must have felt – with a two-shot lead already – that two putts and a par would do.
In October, Brooks Koepka revealed that he had played through a knee injury for much of last season, one that required him to get a painful stem-cell injection following the Tour Championship.
The green surrounds and putting surfaces at Riviera are known for confounding tour pros each year at the Genesis Invitational. Perhaps nobody has quite suffered the fate of Ryan Palmer and his adventure in a greenside bunker at Riviera Country Club on Saturday.
Settled on a parcel of land wedged between the Perth CBD and the Indian Ocean, Cottesloe is more parkland in style with many holes cascading down or climbing up the rolling site.
If you’re looking for definitive conclusions in the massive reports that contributed to the USGA and R&A’s recently released Distance Insights Project, they are quite nearly at every turn and occur so often they can occasionally contradict themselves.
Not only does South Australia boast some of the nation’s best golf courses, the state is also responsible for half the wine production in the country. Which makes it most enticing for wine-loving golfers to consider as a prime golf destination.
With the USGA and R&A having released the preliminary results of their Distance Insights Project – and concluding that something needs to be done to keep the cycle of distance increases from continuing – it seemed a worthwhile exercise to ask the players responsible for much of the handwringing what it is, exactly, they think needs to be done.
Australian Golf Digest
