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G'Day GolfZoners

 

Hope your Golf is going well.

The GolfZone shop is really becoming a force in Golf retail and we are continually adding great products – why not check it out. This month we have another great golf Lesson, this time it is from Scott Barradale and Scott’s lesson is on Lag Putting, scroll down to link below.

We have another GolfZone Joke, latest news and more.

Good Golfing & Stay in the Zone

John Lyons : johnlyons@golfzone.com.au

Very Special thanks to the PGA of Australia for their contribution.

Latest News

A TOTAL of 10 Australians will this week tee it up in the first of the World Golf Championship event, the Accenture Matchplay, this week in Arizona, in a tournament which features all but one player ranked in the top 64 on the official world rankings. Adam Scott leads the Australian challenge, while 2006 Accenture Champion Geoff Ogilvy will also be looking to become just the second player after Tiger Woods to win this event on two occasions. Ernie Els is now a certain starter, with Brett Wetterich the only eligible player missing. Wetterich has been battling a shoulder injury and will be replaced in the field by JB Holmes. As the number one seed, Tiger Woods will face the long-hitting Holmes in the first round. Round one also sees Rod Pampling and John Senden face tough assignments against Justin Rose and Sergio Garcia respectively. First round assignments for the Australians will be as follows: Adam Scott v Brendan Jones, Aaron Baddeley v Mark Calcavecchia, Geoff Ogilvy v Justin Leonard, Stuart Appleby v Tim Clark, Nick O’Hern v Scott Verplank, Richard Green v Niclas Fasth, Rod Pampling v Justin Rose and John Senden v Sergio Garcia.

THE LEADING Australian at the New Zealand PGA Championship was Queenslander Adam Crawford who with rounds of 69 and 68, for a seven-under par total, finished alone in fourth place. Next best in a tie for ninth were Nationwide Tour regulars David McKenzie, Kim Felton, Cameron Percy and newcomer Ashley Hall, with the foursome returning 36-hole totals of five-under par. Jarrod Lyle, the winner of the Mexico Open two weeks prior, was four-under and tied 15th. Also in that group were David Diaz, Peter O'Malley and Terry Pilkadaris.


AUSTRALIAN Graham Marsh, playing his first Champions Tour event of the year, enjoyed an encouraging start to 2008 with a tie for 16th at the ACE Group Classic. Marsh shot rounds of 69-67-71, to be nine-under par for the 54-hole event in finishing in a tie for 16th. Queenslander Wayne Grady, the only other Australian in the field, shot four-under for the tournament to be tied for 35th.


NORTHERN Ireland’s Darren Clarke generously donated his hole-in-one prize at the Enjoy Jakarta Astro Indonesia Open at the weekend to the local caddies at the Cengkareng Golf Club. He aced the par three fourth hole with during his second round and won a state of the art Samsung LCD television for his perfect nine iron. The 39-year-old decided to have his prize installed in the caddy shack at the Cengkareng Golf Club, much to the delight of the local staff and officials, especially the all-female caddie staff. “The girls have been great this week,” said Clarke. “They are all very professional on the course, the range and putting green. It is a pleasure to donate my prize to them and I hope they can get a lot of enjoyment from watching the golf on their new TV.”


THE European Open will this year return to England for the first time since 1994 when the 31st staging of the event takes place over the Jack Nicklaus-designed Heritage course at The London Golf Club in Kent from July 3-6, 2008. Eight-time European Tour Order of Merit winner Colin Montgomerie of Scotland is set to defend his title when The London Golf Club becomes the seventh venue to host the European Open. American Bobby Wadkins won the first European Open at Walton Heath in Surrey in 1978. Since then, eight Major Champions have captured the prestigious title, namely Michael Campbell, Nick Faldo, Retief Goosen, Tom Kite, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle, Greg Norman and Ian Woosnam.

GolfZone Joke

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The Wedding

The bride came down the aisle and when she reached the altar, the groom was standing there with his golf bag and clubs at his side.

She said:" What are your golf clubs doing here"?

 

He looked her right in the eye .... and said, "This isn't going to take all day, is it?"




 

GolfZone  Free Video Lesson

In our Coach’s Corner this issue Scott Barradle - demonstrates the art of Lag putting .

To view the video Click here.