Aussie golfer Leishman stays grounded after bumper 2017
Mark Leishman used to think he had it all figured out until the cold, hard reality of golf slapped him in the face.
Mark Leishman used to think he had it all figured out until the cold, hard reality of golf slapped him in the face.
Scott will use the broomstick at the Australian PGA Championship on the Gold Coast, saying it feels rock solid despite not being able to anchor it under golf's rule change.
The Canberra golfer will finish his season at the Australian PGA at Royal Pines this weekend.
Tiger Woods admits he is "winging it" ahead of his latest comeback, but still harbours ambitions to remind his kids and a new generation of rivals that he is more than "the YouTube golfer".
Marc Leishman has won the award for Australia's best golfer on the international stage in 2017, the Greg Norman Medal.
Reigning Masters champion Sergio Garcia believes he is young enough and good enough to ensure his maiden major golf title isn't a one-off.
It has taken Wade Ormsby 264 attempts but the Australian is now a European Tour winner after a one-shot victory at the Hong Kong Open.
Cameron Davis may be one of the most improbable Australian Open winners in its 102-year history.
The lexicon of a modern day athlete when asked to explain the unexplainable is best summed up in five words: "It is what it is". Jason Day went to it straight away.
Jason Day stared, Lucas Herbert didn't blink. And they'll do it all again as Australia's best golfer couldn't shake off a a self confessed cash-strapped second-year professional after an absorbing third round at the Australian Open.
Swede Jonas Blixt may win his first Australian Open on Sunday after being pestered into travelling Down Under by good friend Cameron Smith, but he wants to set the record straight: the Australian is forever in his debt.
Lucas Herbert won $40,000 last week, stood on the range on Friday morning chest puffed, shoulders arched back and spied a bloke who has cleared $40 million in his career and thought: what's all the fuss?
Jason Day will wage a weekend battle with Australia's Generation Next big hitters after storming to within one shot of the lead at the mid-way point of the Australian Open.
Jordan Spieth was talking to himself, talking to his caddie, talking to the gallery, talking to no one in particular. And when you thought he'd just about had enough of muttering and stuttering his way through a middling Australian Open day, you thought wrong.
Jordan Spieth's Australian Open defence is hanging by a thread after a stone cold putter stalled the American's anticipated push up the leaderboard in the second round at The Australian Golf Club.
Former world No.1 Jason Day went on a birdie blitz as Jordan Spieth's wobbly Stonehaven Cup defence threatened to be blown off course by temperamental afternoon winds in the first round of the Australian Open.
Anthony Quayle is the other golfing export from Queensland's Hills College, alongside Jason Day. But when you can't leave your home town for seven years because of its remoteness, his story is nothing like that of the former world No.1.
YouTube is a golfer's rite of passage these days. But the showreel of Cameron Davis, who stormed to a surprise Australian Open lead, is pretty cool though.
Like all sports, the challenge for golf is to keep fans engaged, regardless of whether they're attracted to the little white ball as a recreational pursuit, or take more than a passing interest in the professional game.
World golf's relentless touring treadmill has convinced Jordan Spieth to undertake a battery of tests to figure out a way to put on weight as his main Australian Open rival Jason Day confessed a fascination with upper body strength stifled his swing.
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