The dreams of ‘10,000-plus’ aspiring PGA Tour Champions players were shattered this week with the circuit’s Player Advisory Council (PAC) voting to eliminate its annual qualifying tournament.
Brendan Jones is the latest Australian to earn playing rights on the PGA Tour Champions, and he will begin his life as a 50-something on the most lucrative senior tour in the world.
A host of Aussie greats will seek to extend their country’s recent dominance when the final stage of the PGA Tour Champions Qualifying Tournament tees off in Arizona tonight, Australian time.
The hottest over-50s golfer on Australian shores now hopes to parlay his fine form into a successful tilt at PGA Tour Champions Qualifying School in America.
The Victorian left-hander, a 15-year veteran of the DP World Tour who came home a couple of years ago and waited to turn 50 and join the SParms PGA Legends Tour, is proving to be a dominant force in that arena.
Stolz didn’t play or even own a set of golf clubs for five years before his looming 50th birthday instigated a nagging thought in the back of his mind that couldn’t be ignored.
After a scorching summer heat wave left most of its greens on life support, popular New South Wales Central Coast resort Kooindah Waters went all out to rectify the problem. Four months on and club management hopes the end result of some tireless work will leave other courses green with envy.