Topic: Golf Talk / Sportsbet to back Australian Masters

any word as to the length of the deal or is it just a one off

Topic: Golf Talk / Barnbougle Dunes in winter - worth it???

simply pure

worth every cent…...loved it

Topic: Golf Talk / Grady wins back to back at Handa Open

Without wanting to regenerate all that crap earlier on in this post re BBs, I’ve noticed the QLD PGA Champs (a previous Von Nida event) has been replaced with a seniors event this weekend at Emerald Lakes on the Gold Coast – “Australian Masters Invitational”!

I think that is correct.

Perhaps those old folk have the extra advantage and know how to put an event on after all, and the “younger guys” should take some lessons in tournament promotion.

Topic: Golf Talk / Hello, im new!

welcome Lee_29

This is the place to be…lots of great advice and at time very strong debate – enjoy

watch out for the teasers on the forums

Topic: Golf Talk / Grady wins back to back at Handa Open

How can the NSW Open gain coverage or exposure when they send it 200km north to the Hunter, to a course 1hr out of Newcastle.

The Newie Hearald will report on it and a few hillbillies from Cessnock will go, but I aint driving 2hrs north to go.

Bit like the Aussie open at Moonah.

Time to play these tournaments back at the Lakes, NSW and Royal Sydney, like the old days.

(gee starting to sound like a BB)
The good old days, when 4 yo kiddies were digging coal, along with 3 yo old kiddies……

Originally I was a critic of the NSW Open moving out of Sydney.

I took the trip from Melbourne and went for the weekend at The Vintage and had a ball. There’s entertainment, great golf and played over a top track

It was an event that was run well and well supported. I’m making the trip again for sure.

The so-called “main Sydney” courses did not want the event – ultimately it’s become their loss!

On this issue of media coverage – the coverage of the Newspapers is over rated. Those garbage fillers are the past – the web is the way and this site for the last few years has provided excellent coverage of some Von Nida events – keep it up guys!

Topic: Golf Talk / Your worst hole ever?

Queanbeyan club champs, 1975, 5th hole, Par four dogleg right, drove over the trees into greenside bunker, 15 shots in bunker, putted out backwards, chipped on sunk put for 18…. finished with 88 on the day…. this sounds bad, but what made it worse…. I lost the Junior championship by 3 shots, I did come second, but I came 6th in the Cub championships, by only 6 shots…..

Cliff Manley

3 bad shots and 1 good shot is still a 4….
Golf is played in a very small area, the 6 inches between your ears…

“Dont play too much golf. Two rounds a day is plenty.” Harry Vardon

Cliff,

Please explain how you can take 15 shots in a bunker and still break 90?

No idea how you did it.

the magic pencil!

it’s easy

Topic: Golf Talk / Jager wins maiden international title

top result from one of our best upcoming amateurs.

Watched him play at the interstate series…..the guy has form and will go the whole way!

Big statement, but Jager smokes it!

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf Australia appoints new CEO

Wish him the best in what would be a shocker of a job…

Good luck to him.

Topic: The Lounge / 1Billion Debt for N.S.W

That state is fuck.d!

What more can you say..

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf Australia Magazine is my friend

Consider where that mag is positioned as well as where that organisation currently is..I would not be gloating.

I don’t even read that stuff on a certain site as it’s mainly a re-hash of other sources – usually from this site .

Must be one of the easiest jobs going around working there in editorial at that organisation!

Topic: Golf Talk / Danny Lee: The New World Number One

Golfur66

I played in the Lake Macquarie Am early on the final day and followed Danny around in the afternoon.

The guy was hitting all his irons as sweet as.

I reckon it’s Danny iron play that’s his best aspect. He can hit it stiff all day from 150 yards.

BTW that’s not taking anything away from his driving.

Topic: Golf Talk / Danny Lee: The New World Number One

Previous world number 1 was Danny Willett.

Since when do we go off the R&A world ranking list.

Danny Lee made the top spot on the Scratchplayers ranking which in itself is harder. The R&A is a bit like the GA ranking system for Aussies – up the shit.

I agree however with the name change.

Topic: Golf Talk / McNamee Dumped by Melbourne FC

Golf Aust should get him back – he was better than 99% of the clowns there.

I agree with that, he during the time with GA did some good changes.

Question is would GA have him back?

Topic: Golf Talk / Rhein Gibson wins Oklahoma State Title

Good on him.

Played well at the St Andrews Links….

top result

Topic: Golf Talk / 2008 Australasian PGA schedule announced

Is it me or is there a very obvious shortage of Von Nida events on this schedule?

More tournaments gone…

Topic: Golf Talk / McNamee Dumped by Melbourne FC

R..the marvels of that “probation period”...thanks Johnny Howard…

Then again Rudd is a dud as he has not done anything about it either

Good to see the elite like McNamee are not exempt from a good and unfair sacking!

Topic: Golf Talk / Rohan Blizard qualifies for British Open

Blizard now impresses me.

Good on him, job well done.

He’s got the game to mix it with the pros, it will be great to follow his progress.

Topic: Golf Talk / Newton vs Norman

The one thing about Newton is he is a realist. Norman, unfortunately has lost touch with reality….money does that!

Newton’s comments are stimulating and in a way, very valid.

I like the way he is forthright with his opinion, in a sport that is often very conservative.

Norman was a great player and did a lot for our game in Aust and was a fantastic ambassador (provided there was money to be made).

Credit has to be given to him for the next generation of golfers that followed in his foot steps, who otherwise may have picked up a football.

But Norman lately has behaved like a pratt…he should take a look at the outside world and then look at himself in the mirror….who cares about some baby-boomer getting married again and spending on the wedding the same as some third-world country’s GDP in one year.

money does that!

I’m with Newton.

Topic: Golf Talk / Griffin wins Rice Planters in US

Tell you what….Matt Giles could be an outsider!

finished runner-up at the Sahalee Invitational.

Topic: Golf Talk / Griffin wins Rice Planters in US

“Mr Consistency”.....Griffin certainly has the game. Great to see.

Will he win another?

Topic: Golf Talk / Golf Australia announces CEO resignation

Well that’s because of their legacy, we just all have to work unreal hours to pay the mortgage and there is little left for spare time, let alone golf.

Golf, or recreational activities, was for the previous generation and those BBs made sure that they would stuff it up for the next wave of generations through their greed..

well done mum and dad!

have to work weekends at single time thanks to you, simply to put petrol in the car and make ends meat.

sorry..I got it wrong, it’s know as flexibility in the workplace through the legacy of Howard’s ‘WorkChoices’ , so your ‘shares’ – ‘Dixon Qantas style’, do not loose value.

Shareholder priority first and stuff the workers (or your children).

Go the Super funds, shareholders and cheap scab labor.

Great!

My golf and the sport suffers in the interim.

Topic: Golf Talk / CEO Hallam to leave Golf Australia

Since when are baby boomers a bad thing?? Some of our Top 100 companies are run very successfully by baby boomers!

Shit, where do you want me to start! This topic could be a whole new thread on this forum.

Ever read the book “Why Wont You Just F;;;; O;;

The author, who left Australia for England feed up with BBs, made a number of debatable points about their impact on the generations following.

It’s a new world out there and there are many of the ‘BB’ generation that cannot face that, as they continue to linger well past their ‘use-by’ date, especially in corporate life!

Sure there are some willing to move with the times, provided when it only suits them, and it’s usually then on their own terms.

BTW…thanks also for the lowest levels of home affordability on record and stuffing up the environment, which we all now have to pay for.

What do we tell our kids now..”Your grandparents just did not give a shit!”

Yes, I soon could also be an expatriate, adding to the ever growing number who leave for better opportunities elsewhere.

Hope your super is secured.

Topic: Golf Talk / CEO Hallam to leave Golf Australia

TH has some great ideas and I also eventually felt what he was doing was the right direction.

For a guy’s contract to be cut short, tends to suggest premature decision making if it was GA’s Board that made the decision.

Backward move by GA in my books, if that was the case!

We await the announcement of his replacement with bated breath ..

Lets hope it’s not some old baby boomer that’s still stuck in the Norman past era like some commentators, that have continually had a hack at the top man of GA for the past three years!

If TH went on his own accord, job well done and appreciated.

Topic: Golf Talk / Aussie win due at St Andrews Links

Anyone know why one of our hottest players Matt Griffin is not there?

Why didn’t GA send him!

With his form of late, he be a real chance.

Topic: Golf Talk / Scottish Amateur: First Test for Aussies

I see Scott Arnold is also now going for it and in with a chance.

Great talent Arnold, he’ll do well OS this season for sure.

The Owl..you are such an optimist!

No…you just wished you were such as good.