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Along with all the latest news, in this months Newsletter we are proud to reveal that Peter Croker has been appointed P.G.A.Teaching professional of the year .We have another great Video lesson from Bruce Green at Royal Melbourne, all that 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.
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Croker Teacher of the Year
Peter’s development of the Croker Golf System (Natural Golf) has been adopted by a growing number of PGA Professionals in Australia and internationally, and his teaching methods have long been renowned on an international level with past students including Vijay Singh, Arnold Palmer, Fred Funk, Olin Browne, Roco Mediate, and Bob Charles.
Thoroughly deserved Peter – Well Done.
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THE Governing Board of the Official World Golf Ranking has announced that Tiger Woods is the recipient of the 2007 Mark H. McCormack Award for the 10th year straight. Woods has won every year since the award’s inception in 1998. The award is presented annually to the player who holds the No. 1 position on the Official World Golf Ranking for the greatest number of weeks in each calendar year. Woods held the top position on the Official World Golf Ranking for the entire 2007 calendar year, and ended the 2007 campaign with 134 consecutive weeks at No. 1. Overall, Woods has held the No. 1 ranking a record 486 weeks. Greg Norman is second with a total of 331 weeks at No. 1 between 1986 and 1998. The award was created in 1998 by the Governing Board to honour Mark H. McCormack for the significant role he played in founding a world ranking system for professional golf. McCormack founded IMG, a premier worldwide sports and lifestyle management and marketing firm in the early 1960s.
GOLF Australia has today announced that Paul McNamee has decided to take up a full-time position as CEO of Melbourne FC. No replacement fro McNamee has currently been announced.
AMERICAN John Daly was a no-show Wednesday morning for the pro-am round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, rendering him ineligible to play in the event. His latest indiscretion came just a day after his former swing coach Butch Harmon publicly challenged whether he is more interested in drinking or golfing. Daly, invited to Bay Hill on a sponsor's exemption, told tournament officials he thought his tee time was 9:47 a.m. instead of 8:40 a.m. He was then ruled out of the tournament. Daly’s no-show had an effect however on a couple of other players, one of those being Australian Nick O’Hern. When Daly did not show for his tee time at the pro-am, a morning and afternoon alternate list for the pro-am was put into effect. Fredrik Jacobson was the first alternate in the morning but had been excused due to illness. Ryuji Imada and Nick O'Hern were next on the morning alternate list, but neither was on the property, so both were declared ineligible for the tournament. Michael Letzig replaced Imada in the field, while Peter Lonard was called in to replace O'Hern. PGA Tour rules require those in the pro-am to participate or risk being ineligible for the event. And the rules also apply to alternates, whose job it is to know where they are on the list and to be prepared in case someone drops out. O'Hern was furious to learn he had been disqualified, especially because he lives only five minutes away at Isleworth. “When I should have been on the tee, I was giving my girls breakfast,” O'Hern said. "I thought common sense would have prevailed. This is a tough one to take. Unfortunately, we got caught up in John's snowball effect."
GOLF analyst David Feherty broke three ribs and punctured his lung when he was hit by a truck while riding his bicycle near his home in Dallas. Feherty said Friday he was returning from his morning bicycle ride a day earlier when a truck hauling irrigation equipment pinched him into the curb and he was struck by the side mirror. "He didn't want to hit the car on the left, so he ran over the cyclist on the right," Feherty said. “I don't remember a whole lot about it. There was a lady on the scene quickly, keeping me conscious. The next thing I know, I'm at Baylor Medical Center, the only hospital in the United States that doesn't have GOLF CHANNEL.” Feherty then asked hospital staff who was leading the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Feherty is regarded as golf's most comical TV analyst, a former European Tour winner and Ryder Cup player from Northern Ireland who has been working for CBS Sports since 1997. Feherty said he would be hospitalized for at least a few more days, but is likely to be on hand to commentate at the upcoming US Masters. CBS Sports covered the PGA TOUR during much of the West Coast Swing but does not have another telecast until the Masters.
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In our Coach’s Corner this issue, Bruce Green on location at Royal Melbourne demonstrates how to play Bunker shots from different lies.
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