Issue 181 - 3rd May 2016

GOLF JOURNEYMAN BRIAN STUARD WINS ZURICH CLASSIC SOUTH AFRICANS JOIN SCOTT IN OLYMPICS EXODUS ISSUE 181 | 3RD MAY 2016 GRINDER HE'S BACK....ALMOST ZACH Murray CONFIDENT AHEAD OF UK, US tour JOHN Daly to MAKE Champions Tour DEBUT THIS WEEK NORMAN EYES NEW COURSE DEVELOPMENT AT ULURU Odyssey INTRODUCES Toe Up Putter R&A HOPING TO CATCH A TIGER ON CAMERA AT TROON TOP WORLD GOLF RANKINGS Amateur star Curtis Luck goes one better to win WA Open NO GO FOR RIO IMAGE: PGA AUSTRALIA WOODS MAKES RETURN TO GOLF FOR BLUEJACK OPENING PGA TOUR ADVERTISING ENQUIRES Golf Grinder Weekly reaches over 81,000 Australian golfers every Tuesday. If you’d like to be part of Australia’s most popular online golf magazine, please contact us on the details below to discuss your advertising needs. Amateur Curtis Luck has won the Western Australian Open, in a tournament where the amateurs upstaged their professional competitors with fellow amateur Travis Smyth also securing a runner-up result. Luck has not flagged any intentions about his immediate future to turn professional but Sunday's victory has given the 19-year-old a few more options. Luck can elect to take winner's exemption to have playing privileges on the Australasian Tour anytime between now and the end of the 2017 season. The win was also redemption for the Western Australian who finished runner-up last year at the same tournament. A 33-year-old PGA journeyman, Brian Stuard beat Jamie Lovemark and Byeung-Hun An in a playoff to secure his first PGA Tour victory in the weather shortened Zurich Classic. His victory not only earned him US$1.26 million, it also gives him a two-year exemption on the PGA Tour and a start at next year's Masters. On the amateur teams front Australia has charged home to finish second at the Queen Sirikit Cup in Korea. The title went to the host nation by an impressive 23 strokes to secure their ninth victory in the past ten starts. 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Tycoon Ventures Pty Limited does not invite any person to act on or rely upon the information in this publication and accepts no responsibility for any acts or reliance and excludes all liability for any loss or damage suffered by any person as a consequence of such an act or reliance. JOURNEYMAN BRIAN STUARD WON THE WATERLOGGED ZURICH CLASSIC (Credit: CALLAWAY GOLF) PUBLISHER Tycoon Ventures Pty Ltd ACN - 147 466 724 IMAGES Snapeture Sports anthonypowter@golfgrinder.com CORRESPONDENTS Bernie McGuire (Europe) Michael Court Luke Elvy Paul Prendergast Trefor Clayton WORDS: ANTHONY POWTER Brian Stuard defeated Jamie Lovemark on the second hole of a playoff Monday to capture his first PGA Tour win at the waterlogged Zurich Classic of New Orleans. JOURNEYMAN STUARD GETS OVER THE LINE AT ZURICH Winless in 100 career starts on the Web.com Tour and in 119 attempts on the PGA Tour, Stuard finally broke through in his 120th try at this rain-shortened tournament. Byeong-hun An was eliminated on the first hole of sudden death, Stuard and Jamie Lovemark went back to the 18th tee. And after a poor drive caused him to have lay well back for his third shot on the par 5, Stuard delivered the clutch shot of his life as he nailed his approach to within a metre. He converted that short birdie putt to beat Lovemark and pick up a title that gives him a spot in next year’s Masters and some breathing space to remain on the PGA Tour. Stuard’s best previous PGA Tour finishes were a pair of second places in Mexico, one in 2010 and the other in 2014. He arrived in New Orleans with conditional status on the PGA Tour, meaning he could only play in tournaments that had room for him when enough higher-ranked players skipped the event. His win earning not only US$1.6million but a two-year exemption on the main tour. ‘I’ve always been, I guess, a journeyman kind of player, just always grinded it out,” said Stuard, who became the seventh first-time winner in New Orleans in the past 11 years. Stuard played mostly on the PGA Tour in 2010, as well as 2013-15. In his rookie season on Tour in 2010, he finished second at the Mayakoba Golf Classic and had another runner-up finish at the same event in 2014, a season that included three top-10 finishes. But for most of the 2015 season, as Stuard tried to adjust his swing, the results were not there. It led to conditional status on the PGA Tour this season “You just had to have the confidence to say, One day, it’s going to be your time.” “I’ve been playing professionally since 2005 and there’s a lot of ups and downs. It’s a tough game to master. But it’s pretty rewarding to think about all the hard work and all the sweat and tears and ups and downs. It’s a pretty cool feeling.” A PGA Tour event hadn’t been shortened to 54 holes since the 2013 Hyundai Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Golf Club. The last Monday finish was at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in early February. Stuart was not perturbed about the shorting of the tournament but world number one Jason Day, who finished in a tie for fifth with Chris Kirk at 13-under, would liked to have had it differently. “I just wish it was 72 holes,” Day said. “At least I gave myself an opportunity to be around the leaders.” Stuart Appleby was the next best Aussie in a share for 11th position with rookie Ryan Ruffels securing a tie for 20th along with John Senden and Marc Leishman. POS +/- NAME R1 1 -15 Brian Stuard 64 T2 -15 Jamie Lovemark 67 T2 -15 Byeong-Hun An 68 R2 R3 R4 68 69 - 66 68 - 68 65 - 4 -14 Bobby Wyatt 67 71 64 - T5 -13 Chris Kirk 71 67 65 - T5 -13 Jason Day (AUS) 69 68 66 - T5 -13 Jhonattan Vegas 64 69 70 - T8 -11 Bryce Molder 71 67 67 - T8 -11 Patton Kizzire 67 70 68 - T8 -11 Harold Varner III 69 67 69 - T11 -10 Charley Hoffman 67 73 66 - T11 -10 Scott Stallings 72 68 66 - T11 -10 Stuart Appleby (AUS) 69 70 67 - T11 -10 Charles Howell III 67 69 70 - T15 -9 Andres Gonzales 69 71 67 - T15 -9 Will Wilcox 70 69 68 - T15 -9 Spencer Levin 68 70 69 - T15 -9 Thomas Aiken 68 69 70 - T15 -9 Chad Collins 72 64 71 - T20 -8 Chesson Hadley 71 69 68 - T20 -8 David Hearn 69 71 68 - T20 -8 Ryan Ruffels (AUS) 70 68 70 - Zurich Classic DATE: Apr 28 - May 01 2016 (Reduced to 54 holes) COURSE: TPC Louisiana, Avondale, LA PRIZEMONEY: $7,000,000 POS +/- NAME R1 T48 -5 Cameron Tringale 69 T48 -5 Bronson Burgoon 72 T48 -5 Jamie Donaldson 73 R2 R3 R4 70 72 - 69 70 - 69 69 - T48 -5 Cameron Percy (AUS) 68 70 73 - T48 -5 Benjamin Taylor 70 72 69 - T48 -5 Vijay Singh 72 70 69 - T48 -5 Blayne Barber 70 72 69 - T58 -4 Dicky Pride 70 70 72 - T58 -4 Jeff Overton 70 70 72 - T58 -4 Danny Lee 68 72 72 - T58 -4 Aaron Baddeley (AUS) 70 71 71 - T58 -4 Michael Bradley 72 70 70 - T58 -4 Steve Stricker 70 72 70 - T64 -3 J.J. Henry 67 73 73 - T64 -3 Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 67 72 74 - T64 -3 Tim Wilkinson 72 69 72 - T64 -3 Ben Martin 70 71 72 - T64 -3 Ken Duke 67 75 71 - T64 -3 Si Woo Kim 70 72 71 - T64 -3 Angel Cabrera 69 73 71 - T64 -3 Rob Oppenheim 70 72 71 - T72 -2 Retief Goosen 65 74 75 - T72 -2 Jonas Blixt 70 69 75 - T72 -2 Chad Campbell 69 72 73 - T72 -2 Robert Garrigus 69 70 75 - T72 -2 Troy Merritt 71 71 72 - T72 -2 Mark Hubbard 74 68 72 - T72 -2 Morgan Hoffmann 73 69 72 - T72 -2 Sung Kang 71 71 72 - T80 Ev Scott Langley 75 67 74 - T80 Ev Rhein Gibson (AUS) 71 71 74 - 82 +1 Jon Curran 71 70 76 - POS +/- NAME R1 T20 -8 Rickie Fowler 68 T20 -8 Gary Woodland 72 T20 -8 Chris Stroud 72 R2 R3 R4 73 67 - 66 70 - 66 70 - T20 -8 Joe Affrunti 69 73 66 - T20 -8 John Senden (AUS) 70 67 71 - T20 -8 Seung-Yul Noh 68 69 71 - T20 -8 Marc Leishman (AUS) 71 71 66 - T20 -8 Daniel Berger 71 65 72 - T31 -7 Marc Turnesa 70 70 69 - T31 -7 Henrik Norlander 66 73 70 - T31 -7 Lucas Glover 69 69 71 - T31 -7 Patrick Rodgers 67 69 73 - T31 -7 Erik Compton 73 69 67 - T36 -6 Lucas Lee 72 68 70 - T36 -6 Robert Streb 71 68 71 - T36 -6 Tyler Aldridge 70 70 70 - T36 -6 Freddie Jacobson 69 70 71 - T36 -6 David Toms 68 71 71 - T36 -6 Billy Horschel 68 71 71 - T36 -6 Adam Hadwin 72 69 69 - T36 -6 Russell Henley 69 73 68 - T36 -6 Derek Ernst 67 70 73 - T36 -6 Nick Taylor 70 72 68 - T36 -6 Steve Wheatcroft 69 68 73 - T36 -6 Brian Gay 73 69 68 - T48 -5 Michael Kim 74 66 71 - T48 -5 Roberto Castro 69 72 70 - T48 -5 Anirban Lahiri 72 69 70 - “It means the world to me to win my State Open and as an amateur it’s even better.” Curtis Luck goes one better to win WA Open Amateur Curtis Luck has upstaged the pros to win his state Open title at the Nexus Risk TSA Group WA Open. WORDS: PAUL PRENDERGAST / IMAGE: PGA AUSTRALIA Starting the round with a three-shot lead, Luck began nervously but regained his composure around the Western Australian Golf Club layout to shoot a two-under 68 to win by two over fellow amateur Travis Smyth. “I had a bit of an up and down start, I made a couple of birdies and a couple of bogeys, but that is pretty standard for me,” the 19-year old Cottesloe member said. “I had kind of collected my coolness by the 5th, I hit a good shot in there and made a birdie. I just kept the foot lightly on the accelerator and it paid off.” “It means the world to me to win my State Open and as an amateur it’s even better. To get on top of a Professional field as an amateur, this would definitely be my best win.” This win is redemption for Luck who finished runner-up at the WA Open last year after giving up his lead on the back nine. “Obviously last year I was really happy with the result but heartbroken at the same time with the way I finished. To go one better this year and collect the title is an amazing feeling,” he added. Luck will have his named inscribed on an honour role of champions that includes names such as Gary Player, Greg Norman, Kel Nagle, Graham Marsh and Ian Baker-Finch and becomes the third amateur in 25 years to win the title, with his predecessors Stephen Leaney (1991) and Oliver Goss (2012) serving as inspiration for him. “I was thinking about Stephen Leaney last night and if I can follow it up with a second at the US Open in the next few years, I would be pretty happy. Hopefully I have some cool things in store for me.” South Australian rookie professional Antonio Murdaca battled it out in the final group with Luck and finished the leading Professional on 16-under 264, claiming the first place prize cheque of AU$15,000 for his troubles. Murdaca’s performance helped solidify his chances of securing his playing rights for next year having failed to earn a Tour card at Qualifying School at the start of the year. Also playing in the final group, Rick Kulacz overcame a horror start to fire a 3-under 67 to finish the tournament in outright 4th place at 15-under 265, a shot clear of WA’s Jarryd Felton in fifth place. The Tour will remain in the west for the WA PGA at the Kalgoorlie Golf Club from the 12th - 15th May 2016. POS +/- NAME R1 1 -19 Curtis Luck (Am) 67 2 -17 Travis Smyth (Am) 66 3 -16 Antonio Murdaca 65 R2 R3 R4 64 62 68 66 68 63 65 66 68 4 -15 Rick Kulacz 67 65 66 67 5 -14 Jarryd Felton 64 70 66 66 6 -13 Ben Ferguson (Am) 70 64 67 66 T7 -11 Steven Jones 69 67 68 65 T7 -11 Cameron Davis (Am) 67 71 65 66 T7 -11 Leigh McKechnie 67 66 67 69 T10 -10 Darren Beck 69 68 68 65 T10 -10 Todd Sinnott 72 66 66 66 T10 -10 Harrison Endycott (Am) 68 67 65 70 T10 -10 Mitchell A. Brown 67 70 63 70 T14 -9 Matthew Millar 70 70 66 65 T14 -9 Jake McLeod 71 67 67 66 T16 -8 Brett Coletta (Am) 74 66 67 65 T16 -8 Peter Cooke 69 66 71 66 T16 -8 Jordan Zunic 71 68 67 66 T19 -7 Ashley Hall 68 69 71 65 T19 -7 Nick Gillespie 65 67 76 65 T19 -7 Mark Brown 70 67 69 67 T19 -7 Rory Bourke 71 68 67 67 T19 -7 James Marchesani 69 69 74 61 T19 -7 Haydn Barron (Am) 64 67 71 71 T19 -7 Kristopher Mueck 67 70 65 71 DATE: Apr 28 - May 01 2016 COURSE: Western Australian Golf Club, Perth, WA PRIZEMONEY: $100,000 WA OPEN POS +/- NAME R1 T26 -6 Fred Lee (Am) 69 T26 -6 Neven Basic 73 T26 -6 Jose De Sousa (Am) 70 R2 R3 R4 71 68 66 68 67 66 68 69 67 T26 -6 Damien Jordan 73 65 66 70 T26 -6 Benjamin Clementson 66 67 69 72 T31 -5 Cory Crawford 68 69 71 67 T31 -5 Anthony Houston 73 63 70 69 T31 -5 Lincoln Reemeyer 68 71 67 69 T31 -5 Matt Jager 71 66 68 70 T31 -5 Max McCardle 70 71 63 71 T36 -4 David Wilson 66 73 68 69 T36 -4 Christopher Thorn 71 67 69 69 T36 -4 Aaron Wilkin 68 68 70 70 T36 -4 Lindsay Wilson 70 72 67 67 T36 -4 Daniel Fox 71 66 67 72 T36 -4 Kiran Day (Am) 71 67 66 72 T42 -3 Anthony Quayle (Am) 67 67 73 70 T42 -3 Tom Power Horan 71 67 69 70 T42 -3 Tim Hart 73 69 66 69 T42 -3 Michael Foster 66 68 72 71 T42 -3 Daniel Hoeve 69 71 69 68 T42 -3 Aaron Pike 71 70 71 65 48 -2 Taylor Cooper 72 70 69 67 T49 -1 Nicholas Piani (Am) 70 71 69 69 T49 -1 Dale Brandt-Richards 69 71 71 68 T51 Ev Fraser Wilkin 68 68 71 73 T51 Ev David Andrews 72 70 67 71 T51 Ev Kim Felton 69 71 73 67 T51 Ev Min Woo Lee (Am) 72 70 71 67 T55 +1 Stephen Dartnall 70 72 72 67 T55 +1 Paul Bucan 72 70 75 64 POS +/- NAME R1 T57 +2 Jack Williams 67 T57 +2 Cooper Geddes (Am) 69 T57 +2 Brad Moules 70 R2 R3 R4 69 73 73 73 69 71 68 75 69 60 +3 Jordan Mullaney 74 68 69 72 T61 +4 Michael Wright 71 69 70 74 T61 +4 Calum Juniper (Am) 71 70 72 71 T63 +5 Kota Kagasaki 69 72 69 75 T63 +5 Edward Stedman 72 69 71 73 T65 +6 Jamie Hook 72 70 71 73 T65 +6 Nathan Miller 73 68 75 70 67 +10 Bradley McLellan 70 71 80 69 68 +11 Andrew Evans 72 70 73 76 69 +12 Nick Curnow (Am) 71 71 74 76 70 +14 Cameron Jones (Am) 71 71 72 80 T39 +4 Daniel Nisbet 78 70 73 71 T39 +4 Alex Edge 74 70 79 69 T42 +5 Alex Katholos 75 72 70 76 T42 +5 Andrew Evans 75 73 69 76 T42 +5 Sam Daley 76 72 72 73 45 +6 Tim Hart 77 70 73 74 46 +7 Harry Bateman 77 69 71 78 T47 +8 Soti Dinki (Am) 77 70 69 80 T47 +8 Quinton Howe 75 71 71 79 T47 +8 DJ Loypur 74 73 77 72 50 +9 Andy Chu 76 71 72 78 51 +11 R.J. Caracella 72 71 75 81 52 +18 Jacob Duwe (Am) 70 78 80 78 53 +19 David Wilson 71 77 77 82 Murray CONFIDENT AHEAD OF UK, US tour WORDS/IMAGE: ANTHONY POWTER Those in the know who have watched Zach Murray’s steady rise from the junior ranks to elite amateur golf appreciate what an exciting prospect the Wodonga teenager is. Murray's made his transition on to the main amateur stage in 2015 when he won Australia's top-ranked amateur tournament, the Australian Master of the Amateurs at Royal Melbourne, against a truely international field. In professional events Murray, 19, has also held his own nicely making the cut this year at the Victorian Open. In match play he's a stealth like player, as shown with big wins over the much touted Ryan Ruffels who is now attempting to play his way onto the PGA Tour. Murray, like Ruffels, wants to make the journey to the big stage yet knows there's more for him to learn before taking that jump. "I've learnt an awful lot over the last twelve months." says Murray. "Last year I was a little under done. My preparation was not the best as I had injured my wrist. This year my preparation has been better. I'm training well with the VIS, working hard and mentally I feel confident that I'll do well." Murray leaves for the UK on the 23rd May to prepare for his first tournament at the Scottish Stroke Play championship starting 27 May. His UK schedule includes the St Andrews Links Trophy starting 3 June and the British Amateur championship on 13 June. "It's a solid schedule and hopefully I can bag a number of top-10 results, even a win." Murray knows solid results in the UK against the stronger fields than what you have in Australia yields more world ranking points, enabling him to climb the ranking ladder to get inside the desired top-50 and elevate the need to pre-qualify for the US Amateur. "I'm currently just outside the top-50, but well inside the top-100," said Murray whose current ranking sits at 86th. "That's the plan, to get inside the top-50 and with some top finishes in Scotland that will set my US leg up nicely to move inside that number." Murray's first US tournament is The Players Amateur starting 3 July. A week after that he'll tee it up at The Southern Amateur before attending the Golf Australia training camp in Houston. "Golf Australia have supported me in a fantastic way," says Murray. "Earlier in the year I was fortunate to represent my country at the Bonallack Trophy in Europe along with my great mate, Brett Coletta, and working with the National Squad guys has been a great assistance for me." The Golf Australia training camp is just before one of the most prestigious amateur events in the world, the Western Amateur. Names on the trophy include Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Justin Leonard and Phil Mickelson. Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler all competed in this tournament and this is one Murray wants to do well in. "That will be a great way to finish this tour, solid results in the US and hopefully I'll play my way into the US Amateur. That's the plan." Li drives off with Volvo China Open victory Chinese 20-year old Li Haotong delighted the home fans posting a sizzling final round 64 to drive off with victory in the Volvo China Open at the Topwin G & CC in Beijing. Korea’s K.T. Kim continued his winning ways in Japan and strengthened his chances of claiming an Olympic Team berth for the Rio Games with his second victory of the season at the prestigious The Crowns tournament on Sunday. A joint runner up at last week’s Panasonic Open, Kim came from two strokes adrift of leader Daisuke Kataoka to shoot 65 on Sunday to tie the Japanese player at 10-under before going on to clinch the title in a playoff. It was the 2011 Presidents Cup team member’s 12th title on the Japan Golf Tour and continues a run of form that has been nothing short of sublime since breaking a lengthy slump with victory at the Thailand Open last June. The Crowns title represented the 29-year old’s 7th win in Japan in the past 11 months. New Zealand Open champion Matthew Griffin shot a final round 67 to tie for 5th at four-under while Brendan Jones, a realistic chance of taking the title on Sunday, shot a final round 71 to tie for 10th place. The remaining Australians to make the weekend cut enjoyed solid weeks, with Adam Bland finishing strongly to tie for 18th and Kurt Barnes finishing tied 24th. WORDS: PAUL PRENDERGAST Rio beckons as Kim wins again in Japan Crail, Scotland: Li began the day two shots behind Felipe Aguilar and Lucas Bjerregaard but with a large home gallery cheering on his every shot, he reeled in the Chilean and held a share of the lead as he stood on the 17th tee. Li birdied the penultimate hole to get 22 under and when Aguilar – playing in the group behind – put his tee-shot on the 16th into the water, a par up the last was enough to give Li a three-shot victory and a first European Tour title. The win makes China the first country to have players win the event in successive years after Wu Ashun’s triumph last campaign and also gives the world’s most populous nation a record fourth victory, one more than Australia and England. For Li, it is a breakthrough win for a player who lost out in a play-off at the Shenzhen International last year and followed that with a sixth-placed finish in the 2015 edition of this event. He missed the cut at Genzon Golf Club last week and was delighted to kick-start a season that had so far been disappointing on both sides of the Atlantic. Li appeared not to realise he had the lead until he was on the 18th fairway and he admitted he was grateful to his caddy for reining in the aggressive approach that had served him so well all week. Scott Hend again topped the Aussie leaderboard, finishing in equal 6th place and five shots off the pace. Nathan Holman closed the tournament at T28 with Brett Rumford another shot back at T34. Jason Scrivener (T44), Nick Cullen (T48) and David McKenzie (66) were the only Australians to make the cut. WORDS: BERNIE MCGUIRE / IMAGE: VOLVO CHINA OPEN WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: www.golffile.ie SOUTH AFRICANS JOIN SCOTT IN OLYMPICS EXODUS Hot on the heels of Aussie Adam Scott’s withdrawal from the 2016 Rio Olympics comes news that South Africa has lost not one, but probably its two biggest drawcards in major champions Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, who have both withdrawn. Of course veteran Fijian Vijay Singh withdrew as well last month, making that four major champions who have shown no interest in chasing a gold medal in golf’s return as an Olympic sport after a 112-year absence. That suggests golf might not have a long-term future as an Olympic sport, unless changes are made. Among those to express their disappointment was South African golfing icon Gary Player, who said he was sad that two of his country’s biggest golf heroes would not be there. “Players withdrawing hurts the game of golf,” said Player, a nine-time major champion. “I was really sorry to hear that Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel have withdrawn their names from consideration." Certainly Schwartzel (pictured), who won the US Masters in 2011 was a leading contender for a spot in South Africa’s team after Oosthuizen withdrew for “family and scheduling issues.” That leaves recent US PGA Tour winner Branden Grace and world No. 59 Jaco Van Zyl as South Africa’s likely representatives in the team for the Games. Adam Scott blamed a heavy schedule that includes three majors in seven weeks before the Olympics and “other commitments”. At this stage Australia’s team looks likely to be world No 1 Jason Day and out next-ranked Aussie Marc Leishman, ranked No 35 in the world. Golf will be played this year and in 2020 in Tokyo but a vote in 2017 will determine if the game stays on. FootJoy has unveiled the new VersaLuxe footwear category, the embodiment of versatility and loaded with high-end luxurious materials and details. 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Daly won five-times on the PGA Tour including the 1991 PGA Championship at Crooked Stick and 1995 Open Championship at St Andrews, but his career was largely chequered by a spate of off -ourse issues, including numerous divorces, drugs and alcohol dependencies and a diet only Willy Wonka would approve of. Still, the long-hitting Daly is eagerly looking forward to the chance of a second career among old friends. "It's a new chapter," Daly told PGATOUR.Com recently, "It's going to be kind of a year of testing the waters. I'm looking forward to it and seeing some of my old buddies out there.” “Fuzzy (Zoeller) and Hubert Green were my favorites. Ben Crenshaw, Craig Stadler. Tom Watson always took me under his wing." "It's great that I'm going to be able to come out and play golf with them again." Daly last won on the PGA Tour at the 2004 Buick Invitational and has relied mainly on sponsor's invites in recent years to play tournament golf, bobbing up all over the world in the strangest of places but never playing to anything like his best. “It's not good," he said when asked about his form. "I'm working on everything. My driving is really, really good. It's just that my putting really isn't where I want it to be. My wedges aren't really dialed in right now.” “This has been a crazy seven years, just not being able to play as much as I want to, not being able to get into many tournaments.“ “So I'm going to have really work my butt off to get it back." Odyssey is the leader in putter innovation and they’ve reached that tremendously high standard once again with the new Odyssey Toe Up Putters. Odyssey used Stroke Balanced technology to reduce torque during the stroke for minimal twisting, so when you roll it, it’s going to be much easier to get the face back to square. 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Product at Retail: Available now Head Shapes: #1, #9 Recommended Retail Price: AUD$329.99 Odyssey'S Toe Up Putter WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: BLUEJACK NATIONAL Five holes does not sound a like a lot of golf and it normally leaves you craving to play a few more...or at least 18. Yet it must have felt like a marathon to Tiger Woods who made a tentative comeback to the game by playing five holes at Bluejack National in Montgomery, Texas last week. The former long-running world No 1. later confirmed he was “on the back side” of recovery although could not offer any confirmed dates about when he was likely to make a serious return to the game that has made him famous. Still those small steps were quite big ones considering it was the first golf Woods had attempted since his second of two back operations late in 2015. “I’m definitely a little tired but I feel pretty good,” said Woods afterwards. “I haven’t been out here playing like this. I hadn’t played any holes until today." Even though he has put his name among the entries for the US Open at Oakmont next month, Woods could not confirm that he would be there. “I still have a long way to go, (but) I’m on the back side,” Woods said. “I’m getting better, but I’m also getting closer to feeling better every day.” WOODS MAKES GOLF RETURN Ladies European Tour resumes in Morocco A strong international field, including seven of last year’s Ladies European Tour champions, will battle it out when the Ladies European Tour resumes at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Rabat, Morrocco this week. In her 135th start, Jenny Shin shot a bogey free final round 67 to capture her first career LPGA victory at the Volunteers of America Texas Shootout in Irving, Texas. The South Korean had posted twenty top-10 finishes in a six-year LPGA career but her patience was rewarded with a two-shot victory, having posted a 14-under par total. “Still in awe,” Shin said, “Nothing has registered yet. I wanted to talk to my mum but I was on the verge of tears so I hung up without really her answering the phone. I think it will hit me as soon as I talk to my mum.” “I think I’ve been in contention so many times that I’ve kind of learned how to tune it out,” Shin explained. “I think every year I become a better player and I get a little bit more experience. And I think I’ve gotten a lot out of it every time I go through this, so hopefully next year will be better, the year after that will be better.” Victoria Sarah Jane Smith had easily her best finish of the 2016 season, after shooting a final round 69 to finish in a tie for 13th at 5-under. She was the only Australian to make the cut and play all four rounds. The LPGA now heads to Alabama to an event notorious for low scoring – the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic. WORDS: PAUL PRENDERGAST Texas TITLE goes to KOREA'S Jenny Shin Fittingly, in the year that golf returns to the Olympic Games, both the Lalla Meryem Cup and Trophée Hassan II on the men’s PGA European Tour – won last year by Gwladys Nocera (pictured) and Richie Ramsay in Agadir – will be played in the same week at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam on the Blue and Red courses respectively. Players from all over the world will be keen to put themselves in the frame for an appearance in Rio when the event is played on May 5-8, with the cut-off for qualification just two months later, on July 11. French Olympic hopeful Gwladys Nocera will defend the title she won last year by two strokes over Melissa Reid, Felicity Johnson and Nicole Garcia. Melissa Reid, who earned her fifth LET trophy last year in Turkey, and Australia’s Rebecca Artis are other recent champions in the field which will also include fellow Aussies Stacey Keating, Whitney Hillier and Bree Arthur. One player who will be a winner before a ball is struck will be former LET winner Cassandra Kirkland from France, who has been absent from the tour since this event last year after being diagnosed with a form of lung cancer. The non-drinking, non-smoking Parisian has faced her diagnosis and recovery with tremendous resolve and good humour over the past 12 months and has been determined over the past few months to ensure she could make a return to competition this week. Kirkland’s presence in the field will be an inspiration and uplifting to all her fellow competitors and spectators his week. WORDS: PAUL PRENDERGAST / IMAGE: LET Is there anything more Australian than Uluru? And is there any greater Aussie golf icons than Greg Norman? So it does sound like the perfect partnership when The Great White Shark a.k.a. Norman declares he wants to build a golf course at the foot of Uluru. Reports state that Norman has already mapped out plans for a course after a visit to Ayers Rock with Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles. “On my invitation Greg came to the Northern Territory to look at what sporting and economic investments he could make in the Territory,” Giles said. “Yulara and Uluru was one particular visit, we will see what will come of that.” Norman reportedly met with the operators of the Ayers Rock Resort and has already begun drawing up some rough plans. An ‘Uluru course’ is one of two Norman is believed to be proposing for the Northern Territory with the other, on Government land near the Territory Wildlife Park, about 60km outside of Darwin. “I know that Greg's been fortunate enough to build a golf course at the foot of the pyramids in Egypt,” said Giles. “Wouldn't it be fantastic to see, as an additional opportunity, not just having a resort and cultural opportunities at Uluru, but also the chance to have a shot of golf.” Latest reports indicated Norman was poised to sign a heads of agreement with the NT Government. WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: ANTHONY POWTER NORMAN SPREADS WINGS INTO JAPAN WORDS: MICHAEL COURT NORMAN'S ULURU DREAM The burgeoning business empire of Greg Norman continues to grow with the Great White Shark now heading for The Land of the Rising Sun, Japan. While his course design business has boomed around the world, Norman is keen to take on the task of re-designing some of Japan’s older layouts. Australia’s former world No 1 has indicated he will study all the courses built in Japan in the 1980s that had not been modernised. The Shark suggests he can increase the value of a lot of them through re-designing their layouts. His immediate goal is to redesign around six to eight a year, building new clubhouses and using his own name to add to their ‘allure’. Norman expects that some of Japan’s 36-hole courses could be scaled back to 27 holes, which would free up some land to build new homes. His resume makes it difficult to argue: Norman has been involved in redesigning more than 100 golf courses worldwide, including properties in Australia, the United States and Mexico. His group of companies also manages more than 200 courses and have five designs or re-designs including Ellerston (Scone), the New South Wales Golf Club (Sydney), The Bluffs Ho Ham Strip in Vietnam, Nirwana Bali Golf Club in Indonesia and Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai listed among Golf Digest’s World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses. NORMAN TO DAY: BREAK MY RECORD WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: www.golffile.ie Records, they say, are made to be broken. And former world No 1 Greg Norman has laid down a challenge to current world No 1 Jason Day. The Shark would dearly love to see Day better his record of 331 weeks as the world’s No 1 player. The problem with that is that Day has 322 weeks to go before he can equal that amazing record of his fellow Australian, who was second only to Tiger Woods (683 weeks) in his reign as the best player in the world. Even Day must shake his head and wonder how on earth he could possibly expect to match The Shark. “I shared a text with Greg earlier this year and he said he would love to see me pass him,” Day said before teeing off in last weekend’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans. “I'm like, 'Ugh!, that's 330 something weeks at No. 1.'" “It's tough to be at the top of your game all the time, and everyone is expecting you to win, and that sometimes wears on you." “If you want to be the best in the world, you have to work harder than everyone else, and you have to be in front of your competition." And while Day appears to relish being the hunted instead of the hunter when he arrives at a tournament, he also feels the strain at times as well. He blamed mental and physical fatigue after five straight weeks of competitive golf and headed home to spend time with his family. “There were certain things - bad habits - that had kind of crept into my game; that when you're playing a lot, you don't have time to work them out,” he said. “There's nothing worse in this world right now than me playing bad golf." “I want to be in contention all the time, and I want to win and play golf tournaments." “As the top-ranked player you've got to manage media, you've got to manage fans, you've got to manage time spent on the golf course, and the time spent at home, as well, with the family...so it's a balancing game.” WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: ROYAL TROON R&A HOPING TO CATCH A TIGER ON CAMERA The world’s best players will even be under the microscope when they disappear into bunkers at this year’s British Open at Royal Troon. One of the innovations the R&A will introduce at this year’s championship is named ‘wire cam’. It will run the full length of the famous Postage Stamp hole at Troon, one of the most famous short holes in world golf. The 123-yard par 3 eighth hole is surrounded by five bunkers and the R&A is placing a camera in each of the sand traps so fans will not miss even one ‘grain’ of the action. The R&A’s director of championship operations, Rhodri Price explained how ‘wire cam’ would work. “I have been desperate to put a wire camera on the course for years, but due to the playing conditions of golf in terms of ball flight, particularly from the likes of Bubba Watson, it is very difficult normally to place a wire camera on the course without it getting in the way of play,” said Price. “We recognise that, due to the short distance of the Postage Stamp, there was scope to get a wire camera in there on this iconic part of the golf course with the wonderful views." “It will go all the way from the tee to a little winter green to the left of the green. The Postage Stamp was screaming out to be a feature hole.” One of the players Price will be hoping to catch on camera is Tiger Woods, who despite his absence from the game, has registered for June’s US Open. Woods has two weeks to declare his intentions for the British Open as well with officials hoping the three-time champion will be there to tee it up on July 14 at the 145th Open Championship. The R&A’s Mike Woodcock commented: “We’ve had no indication at the moment but obviously we would welcome any of the players...and particularly Tiger Woods.” ARM END ADDS TO TASSIE'S GOLF ARSENAL With some of the best golf courses in the world on their doorstep it is difficult to believe Tasmania’s biggest city doesn't have a public golf course. WORDS: MICHAEL COURT / IMAGE: ARM END Still Hobart is doing something about that with the impending opening of a course at Arm End, which is expected to join the list of Tasmania’s golf attractions sometime in 2018. Whether Arm End can take its place alongside the likes of Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm on Tassie’s north coast at Bridport and even the two new layouts on nearby King Island, is in the lap of the Gods. Still such is the attraction of the Arm End location that the golf community in Tasmania is already rubbing their hands in eager anticipation of a new golfing mecca that may lie ahead. This spectacular site, just a short ferry ride from the Hobart city centre, will boast views of the famous Derwent River from every hole when the layout is eventually completed. The low-impact, strong sustainable environmental themes and considerations in the designs of built structures by Tasmanian architects complement the design by national golf-course architects and site master planners. A group of Tasmanian investors have been granted a 50-year lease by the Parks and Wildlife Service, and have set their goal as giving Tasmania the perfect southern bookend to what has been created with Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm in the north of the state. They believe Arm End will also stand out on the world stage and have committed to delivering a world-class asset to the local, Tasmanian and Australian communities, as well as delivering a stunning environmental outcome. A 10-year rehabilitation program will also return the 116-hectare site to a native, coastal habitat for plants and animals. “We believe Arm End will become one of Tasmania’s most widely-used and enjoyed areas of public land,” said Arm End project manager Craig Ferguson. “The site is absolutely spectacular and we are also determined to return the land back to its coastal native garden habitat.” TW LW NAME AVG 34 33 Shane Lowry 2.9531 35 35 Marc Leishman (AUS) 2.8923 36 36 Lee Westwood 2.8896 TOTAL EVENTS 150.61 51 147.51 51 141.59 49 37 37 Justin Thomas 2.8023 145.72 52 38 38 Soren Kjeldsen 2.7615 143.6 52 39 39 Emiliano Grillo 2.7121 141.03 52 40 40 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 2.6568 138.15 52 41 41 Matthew Fitzpatrick 2.6531 137.96 52 42 42 Danny Lee 2.6501 137.8 52 43 43 Bernd Wiesberger 2.5698 133.63 52 44 44 Billy Horschel 2.5421 132.19 52 45 46 Ryan Moore 2.5119 115.55 46 46 45 Thongchai Jaidee 2.4851 129.22 52 47 47 Daniel Berger 2.4841 129.18 52 48 60 K.T. Kim 2.4813 129.03 52 49 48 David Lingmerth 2.412 125.42 52 50 49 Smylie Kaufman 2.4082 96.33 40 51 54 Chris Kirk 2.3993 124.76 52 52 51 Chris Wood 2.3497 112.79 48 53 50 Scott Piercy 2.333 109.65 47 54 58 Patton Kizzire 2.2984 94.23 41 55 53 Anirban Lahiri 2.2856 118.85 52 56 52 Victor Dubuisson 2.283 107.3 47 57 56 Jamie Donaldson 2.2169 115.28 52 58 57 Robert Streb 2.2161 115.24 52 59 55 Martin Kaymer 2.1999 114.4 52 60 59 Jaco Van Zyl 2.1865 87.46 40 61 61 Joost Luiten 2.1423 111.4 52 62 62 Thomas Pieters 2.1039 109.4 52 63 63 Marcus Fraser (AUS) 2.0899 87.77 42 64 64 Kevin Chappell 2.067 107.48 52 65 65 Fabian Gomez 2.0352 105.83 52 66 68 Thorbjorn Olesen 2.0039 104.2 52 TW LW NAME AVG 1 1 Jason Day (AUS) 12.0527 2 2 Jordan Spieth 11.2604 3 3 Rory McIlroy 8.9717 TOTAL EVENTS 494.16 41 585.54 52 394.76 44 4 4 Bubba Watson 8.038 377.79 47 5 5 Rickie Fowler 7.5645 385.79 51 6 6 Henrik Stenson 7.4742 358.76 48 7 7 Adam Scott (AUS) 6.9062 296.97 43 8 8 Dustin Johnson 6.6159 271.25 41 9 9 Danny Willett 6.2848 326.81 52 10 10 Justin Rose 5.7033 296.57 52 11 11 Branden Grace 5.4426 283.02 52 12 12 Patrick Reed 5.2371 272.33 52 13 13 Louis Oosthuizen 4.9245 236.38 48 14 14 Hideki Matsuyama 4.5386 236.01 52 15 15 Sergio Garcia 4.1962 201.42 48 16 16 Brandt Snedeker 4.1686 216.77 52 17 17 Zach Johnson 3.9862 207.28 52 18 18 Brooks Koepka 3.8611 200.78 52 19 19 J.B. Holmes 3.8562 181.24 47 20 21 Phil Mickelson 3.8133 156.34 41 21 20 Charl Schwartzel 3.7509 195.05 52 22 22 Kevin Kisner 3.5879 186.57 52 23 23 Paul Casey 3.4981 181.9 52 24 31 Byeong Hun An 3.4734 180.62 52 25 24 Jim Furyk 3.4263 137.05 40 26 25 Kevin Na 3.2107 166.96 52 27 28 Bill Haas 3.175 161.93 51 28 26 Jimmy Walker 3.1677 164.72 52 29 27 Matt Kuchar 3.1503 163.82 52 30 29 Rafael Cabrera Bello 3.13 162.76 52 31 30 Russell Knox 3.1091 161.67 52 32 34 Charley Hoffman 3.0402 158.09 52 33 32 Andy Sullivan 2.9892 155.44 52 TW LW NAME AVG 67 66 Jason Dufner 1.9754 68 67 Ian Poulter 1.9542 69 69 Luke Donald 1.9255 TOTAL EVENTS 94.82 48 95.76 49 100.12 52 70 71 Jim Herman 1.8916 98.36 52 71 70 Matt Jones (AUS) 1.8837 97.95 52 72 72 Graeme McDowell 1.8543 96.42 52 73 73 Ryan Palmer 1.8422 92.11 50 74 74 Harris English 1.8242 94.86 52 75 75 Soomin Lee 1.8214 72.86 40 76 80 Scott Hend (AUS) 1.8126 94.26 52 77 110 Jamie Lovemark 1.7933 93.25 52 78 78 Gary Woodland 1.7812 85.5 48 79 79 Yuta Ikeda 1.7803 92.58 52 80 77 Tony Finau 1.7551 91.27 52 81 76 Jason Bohn 1.748 85.65 49 82 81 Shingo Katayama 1.7412 74.87 43 83 83 Brendan Steele 1.7133 85.66 50 84 84 Russell Henley 1.6987 86.63 51 85 90 Charles Howell III 1.6686 86.77 52 86 87 Webb Simpson 1.66 76.36 46 87 85 George Coetzee 1.6509 82.54 50 88 86 Francesco Molinari 1.6425 85.41 52 89 88 Troy Merritt 1.6356 85.05 52 90 82 Kristoffer Broberg 1.6256 84.53 52 91 89 Ross Fisher 1.6011 81.66 51 92 96 Jason Kokrak 1.5633 75.04 48 93 93 Brandon Stone 1.54 80.08 52 94 91 Chez Reavie 1.5351 66.01 43 95 92 Tommy Fleetwood 1.5333 79.73 52 96 94 Steven Bowditch (AUS) 1.5216 79.12 52 97 97 Dean Burmester 1.4902 70.04 47 98 95 Ricardo Gouveia 1.4832 60.81 41 99 107 Alexander Noren 1.4717 58.87 40 www.golfgrinder.com WORLD GOLF RANKINGS | 3RD MAY 2016 www.golfgrinder.com DEMO DAYS | MAY 2016 DATE FROM VENUE TYPE 3RD 1:00PM KOORINGAL GOLF CLUB FIT* 3RD 1:30PM HILLS GOLF COURSE FIT* 4TH 9:00AM THE LINKS SHELL COVE FIT* 4TH 9:00AM THE LINKS SHELL COVE FIT* 4TH 2:00PM MARYBOROUGH GOLF CLUB FIT* 5TH 9:00AM MORNINGTON COUNTRY GOLF CLUB FIT* 5TH 9:00AM BARGARA GOLF CLUB FIT* 5TH 2:00PM BUNDABERG GOLF CLUB FIT* 5TH 4:00PM MOORE PARK GOLF CLUB FIT* 6TH 2:00PM COOLANGATTA-TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB DEMO 10TH 3:00PM THORNLEIGH GOLF CENTRE FIT* 11TH 8:30AM OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB FIT* 17TH 5:30PM VICTORIA PARK GOLF CLUB DEMO 18TH 3:00PM PARKWOOD INTERNATIONAL FIT* 19TH 2:00PM BURLEIGH GOLF CLUB FIT* 20TH 12:00PM RACV ROYAL PINES RESORT FIT* 26TH 2:00PM SURFERS PARADISE GOLF CLUB FIT* 28TH 2:00PM PACIFIC GOLF CLUB FIT* 26TH 9:00AM PYMBLE GOLF CLUB FIT* 27TH 9:00AM LONG REEF GOLF CLUB DEMO * Appointment Required www.golfgrinder.com DATE TIME VENUE TYPE NEW SOUTH WALES/ACT 4TH 09:00-14:00 THE AUSTRALIAN GOLF CLUB FIT* 4TH 16:00-19:00 MOORE PARK RANGE FIT* 5TH 08:00-13:00 AVONDALE GOLF CLUB FIT* 6TH 08:00-13:00 ELANORA COUNTRY CLUB FIT* 10TH 09:00-14:00 PYMBLE GOLF CLUB FIT* 11TH 09:00-14:00 THE LAKES GOLF CLUB FIT* 12TH 10:00-14:00 ST MICHAELS GOLF CLUB FIT* 13TH 11:00-17:00 WINDSOR GOLF CLUB FIT* 16TH 12:00-17:00 FEDERAL GOLF CLUB FIT* 17TH 10:00-15:00 QUEANBEYAN GOLF CLUB FIT* 18TH 08:00-12.30 ROYAL CANBERRA GOLF CLUB FIT* 18TH 14.30-17:00 DRUMMOND GOLF - FYSHWICK FIT* 19TH 10:00-14.30 YOWANI GOLF CLUB FIT* 23RD 12:00-16:00 MARRICKVILLE GOLF CLUB FIT* 26TH 12:00-16:00 GOSFORD GOLF CLUB FIT* 27TH 13:00-17:00 SHELLY BEACH GOLF CLUB FIT* 28TH 9.30-13.30 TOUKLEY GOLF CLUB FIT* 30TH 16:00-19:00 GOLF PARADISE RANGE FIT* WESTERN AUSTRALIA 5TH 16:00-19:00 WEMBLEY GOLF CLUB DEMO 6TH 11:00-15:00 COLLIER PARK GOLF CLUB DEMO 11TH 9.30-13:00 MT LAWLEY GOLF CLUB DEMO 19TH 9.30-13:00 HARTFIELD GOLF CLUB DEMO 25TH 9.30-13:00 WANNEROO GOLF CLUB DEMO 28TH 08:00-17:00 KALGOORLIE GOLF CLUB FIT* 23RD 09:00-17:00 ALBANY GOLF CLUB FIT* 23RD 09:00-17:00 ALBANY GOLF CLUB FIT* 26TH 10:00-14:00 DRUMMOND GOLF TEA TREE GULLY FIT * Appointment Required DEMO DAYS | MAY 2016 DATE TIME VENUE TYPE QUEENSLAND 3RD 17:00-19:30 VICTORIA 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11:00-15:00 COLLIER PARK GOLF CLUB DEMO 11TH 9.30-13:00 MT LAWLEY GOLF CLUB DEMO 19TH 9.30-13:00 HARTFIELD GOLF CLUB DEMO 25TH 9.30-13:00 WANNEROO GOLF CLUB DEMO 28TH 08:00-17:00 KALGOORLIE GOLF CLUB FIT* DEMO DAYS | MAY 2016 * Appointment Required www.golfgrinder.com DATE TIME VENUE TYPE NEW SOUTH WALES/ACT 2ND 11:30-16:00 NELSON BAY GOLF CLUB FIT 3RD 11:00-16:00 MAITLAND PROFESSIONAL SHOP FIT 4TH 09:00-12:00 LAKE MACQUARIE GOLF SCHOOLS DEMO 4TH 13:00-17:00 LAKE MACQUARIE GOLF SCHOOLS FIT 5TH 13:00-16:30 MEREWETHER PRO SHOP FIT* 5TH 16:00-19:00 DRUMMOND GOLF NORTHMEAD DEMO 6TH 14:00-16:30 COOLANGATTA TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB DEMO 9TH 12:00-17:00 RYDE-PARRAMATTA GOLF CLUB FIT 10TH 08:00-10:00 THURGOONA COUNTRY RESORT FIT 10TH 11:00-13:00 COMMERCIAL CLUB (ALBURY) LTD FIT* 10TH 14:00-17:00 DRUMMOND GOLF ALBURY DEMO 12TH 12:00-17:00 CUMBERLAND GOLF CLUB FIT* 13TH 11:00-15:00 TOCUMWAL GOLF CLUB FIT 14TH 09:00-13:00 RICH RIVER GOLF RESORT FIT 16TH 11:00-14:00 GRAFTON GOLF CLUB DEMO 17TH 08:00-14:00 PENNANT HILLS GOLF CLUB MEM* 18TH 13:00-17:00 MUDGEE GOLF CLUB FIT 19TH 10:00-14:00 WAGGA WAGGA COUNTRY CLUB FIT 19TH 13:00-18:00 PARADISE GOLF DRIVING RANGE FIT 19TH 16:00-19:00 MOORE PARK GOLF HOUSE DEMO 20TH 12:00-16:00 BAYVIEW GOLF CLUB FIT 25TH 09:00-13:00 LONG REEF GOLF CLUB DEMO 26TH 09:00-14:00 THE ROYAL SYDNEY GOLF CLUB MEM* 26TH 12:00-18:00 THORNLEIGH GOLF CENTRE FIT 27TH 12:00-17:00 TORONTO GOLF CLUB FIT 30TH 12:00-16:00 TAMWORTH GOLF CLUB DEMO 10TH 10:00-14:00 HORSHAM GOLF CLUB FIT 26TH 10:00-14:00 DRUMMOND GOLF TEA TREE GULLY FIT DATE TIME VENUE TYPE QUEENSLAND 4TH 10:00-13:00 GAILES GOLF CLUB INC FIT 10TH 17:30-19:30 VICTORIA PARK GOLF COMPLEX DEMO 12TH 13:00-16:00 DRUMMOND GOLF WOOLLOONGABBA FIT 18TH 15:00-18:00 PARKWOOD INTERNATIONAL DEMO 19TH 13:00-16:30 SURFERS PARADISE PRO SHOP FIT 24TH 10:00-12:30 TEWANTIN NOOSA GOLF CLUB DEMO 26TH 16:00-19:00 GOLF CENTRAL DEMO 27TH 13:00-16:30 PALM MEADOWS DRIVING RANGE DEMO SOUTH AUSTRALIA/NT 6TH 11:00-15:00 VICTOR 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