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Published - 16 hours By - Tony Webeck Experienced Tour player Scott Barr is hoping third time will be the charm when he tees it up at the PGA Professionals Championship of Western Australia at Mosman Park Golf Club on Friday. There are some familiar names among the 30 competitors made up of Vocational Members of the PGA with 2019 winner Tim Elliott and defending champion Gavin Reed seeking a return to the Championship Final at Hamilton Island Golf Club from September 2-5. Barr was tied for ninth at the 2019 Championship Final at Hamilton Island two years ago after finishin...

John Senden could be forgiven for letting 50 sneak up on him.

Published - 2 months By - Tony Webeck Min Woo Lee has sought the advice of fellow Aussie Jason Day as he seeks to make an instant impression on the PGA TOUR at this week’s famed AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California. Lee has received a sponsor’s invitation to make his debut on the USA’s main tour ahead of his first appearance in a World Golf Championships event in Florida in a fortnight’s time, the 22-year-old making no effort to hide his intent to play in the US full-time in future. Drawn to play alongside another Aussie in Rhein Gibson for his opening round to b...

  Tiger Woods' top-20 shots at Farmers Insurance Open Tiger Woods will not be in the field this week, but his presence still looms large at Torrey Pines. Few courses have done more to define his legendary career than the annual venue for the Farmers Insurance Open. Woods has won at this scenic San Diego course since he was an amateur. His eight PGA TOUR wins here tie his own record for most at one course (he also has eight wins at Bay Hill, site of the Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by Mastercard, and Firestone, the former venue for the World Golf Champions...

Published - 4 months By - Tony Webeck Cameron Smith knows what happened at the 1996 Masters. It stands alone as the cruellest finish to a Major championship that any Aussie golf fan has had to endure but given Smith wasn’t yet three years of age it’s not his most enduring Greg Norman memory. Smith will make his tournament debut at this week’s QBE Shootout – aka the Shark Shootout – at the Tiburon Golf Course in Naples, Florida, the Norman-designed Gold Course the host layout. Smith and teammate Marc Leishman were both heavily influenced by Norman’s career as yo...