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The July issue of Inside Golf is online for your viewing pleasure. This month: GREAT SCOTT23 years, 93 majors, a remarkable streak continues SOUTHERN CELEBRATES BOB SHEARER HOT WHEELSThe best buggies – drive or walk CELEBRITY SWINGERMick Fanning THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPRoyal Troon preview TRAVEL ADVENTURESDiscover Golf in WAExploring Malaysia’s Central RegionGolf Cruise The Great Lakes […]

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Kim denied second LPGA success Sydney’s Grace Kim has suffered a heartbreaking playoff defeat to be denied a second LPGA Tour win at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan. Kim began the final round at Blythefield Country Club with a five-stroke lead, an advantage erased completely by the time she stepped onto the fifth tee. […]

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By Rob Willis IT began at the 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, when Adam Scott finished in a tie for 47th in his major championship debut.  While no doubt a young player of promise, little did he, or anyone else in the golfing world for that matter, know it would be […]

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By Peter Owen HE’S probably the best-known and most popular caddie in the golf world. And if you think Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan has been around forever, you’re not far off the mark. Cowan, with his trademark bushy white moustache and hippety-hop gait, has been lugging the heavy bags of some of the world’s best golfers […]

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The famous ‘Postage Stamp’ the par three eighth hole at Royal Troon.  FOR the 10th time in 101 years, the Open Championship returns to Royal Troon Golf Club from July 18-21. Founded in 1878, Royal Troon is renowned as one of the greatest links courses. The Old Course represents a stern golfing examination and, in […]

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0 pounds was on offer for the first three Open Championships (1860-61-62). 2 Claret Jugs have been lifted by eight players including Greg Norman. 3 left-handers have won The Open Championship – Kiwi Bob Charles (1963), Phil Mickelson (2013) and Brian Harman (2023). And 3 is the number of decades spanning Gary Player’s Open victories […]

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Greg Chalmers, playing in the last group on the last day, was in contention until the closing holes at the recent PGA Senior Championship. By Peter Owen GREG Chalmers, the neat left-hander who has twice won the Australian Open, has never been known for his length off the tee, relying instead on crisp iron play […]

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By Rob Willis ON the back of an Australian golfing publication coming out with its biannual rankings of Australia’s best courses, this month our esteemed panel of journalists were given the task of rating their favourites – not necessarily those courses they consider to be our country’s best.  The reason for the slight tweak in […]

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IT was an emotional day for Kathie Shearer, her sons Bobby and Brett and grandson, Jake, as the family recently unveiled a statue to honour her late husband Bob, at his beloved Southern Golf Club. Fittingly, as guests gathered to get their first glimpse of the amazing life size work of Shearer powering a six […]

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Warwick Butler (left) is congratulated by Tumut Golf Club president Peter Linnegar. TUMUT golfer Warwick Butler may not be living the dream . . . but he’s about to. Butler is heading for the Open Championship at Royal Troon, thanks to a nationwide competition run by Golf Australia. It was appropriately called ‘Play 9’ and […]

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