The Queenslander won back-to-back Australian PGA Championships, including in 1972 at The Lakes Golf Club. But that was far from being his lone contribution to the professional game.
Five professional wins, two Open Championship starts and a career spanning the globe haven’t satisfied Dimi Papadatos. The New South Wales Central Coast pro reflects on the sacrifices of tour life and why he still believes his best golf is ahead
Why Min Woo Lee believes the melting pot of cultures on the International team has the side poised for an upset victory over the US team at this month’s Presidents Cup.
Ryan Fox is the old-man underdog who did what no one thought he could do, win an Open Championship. It’s precisely why he will be a marked man at this month’s Presidents Cup.
Judy Rankin was at an LPGA Tour event in the mid-1970s. But instead of focusing all of her energy on preparing for the competition, the Hall of Famer was hustling on the phone. She needed a babysitter, and not just anyone. Rankin’s son had come down with chicken pox, so it had to be somebody Read more…
The most intriguing way AI can assist in golf course design is with routings, the process by which architects arrange 18 holes around a given property. In theory, there are uncountable combinations of holes, lengths, orientations and ways to use a given piece of land. AI has the power to analyse a topographical map and Read more…
A century ago, Bobby Jones was making a back-up for his legendary Jeanie Deans driver. He sorted through “5,000 pieces of first-grade hickory to find four shafts” that were close. The process was an elaborate exercise of “guess and check”. Fitting golfers to clubs has changed immensely since then, and yet it hasn’t. It’s still a tentative dance between what the experts Read more…
I bet you didn’t know that many of the game’s best on the greens hail from Australia. What are we doing down under to rattle the bottom of the cup more often? I just declassified it.
Through trial, error, YouTube deep dives and plenty of laughs, LIV Golf star Lucas Herbert and caddie Nick Pugh have crafted one of golf’s best partnerships.