The new head of the PGA of Australia, Gavin Kirkman, on leadership, attracting more young people to the game, his pet peeves, and who really is Australia’s greatest ever golfer.
A petition has been launched at Change.org that urges Pacific Ridge School to change the date of its high school graduation to allow Phil Mickelson to compete in the US Open.
Phil Mickelson’s stunning but entirely characteristic revelation that he’ll be skipping next week’s US Open to attend his daughter’s graduation is only the latest testament to the golfer’s dedication to his family. It’s also representative of a culture in which parents feel increasingly obligated to be in attendance at every game, ceremony, and mid-afternoon school party.
He’s still nursing a back injury courtesy of a bizarre mishap during Masters week, but Dustin Johnson remains the bookies’ favourite for the US Open in June.
Australian Golf Digest
