My website is simple, my golf instruction is simple. We don't need bells and whistles to get a point across. The information is what is important....

I trust you will gain some tremendous insight from what I have attached to these pages with regards to my life as a professional golfer, the experiences I have been fortunate enough to live through, and my golf instruction based on all those experiences.
I look forward to assisting as many people as possible with their golf games...... Enjoy The Ride!!
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Born in Melbourne, Australia. I have played the professional golf tours of the United States, Europe, Japan and my homeland Australia since 1988.
I have been fortunate to have some success as a golfer winning some important events and representing my country in International team events.
I decided after 20 years of travel to spend more time at home with my family. I now look forward to teaching golf and passing on many of the lessons I have learned from the greats of the game to people who are searching to improve their golf ability, whatever their standard of golf.
Come inside and enjoy the journey as I talk about the many facets of this great game of golf. I will give you some insights about life on the road and about the many people I have met and great golf courses and cities of the world I have had the pleasure of visiting throughout my travels.
What a great way to learn about life. To be able to travel the world experiencing different cultures, different food and different scenery and do it all whilst playing a game you truly love and enjoy !
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I would like to thank all the people who have been there for me every day- through the good or the bad and offered me their support and love
 

       
1987 Victorian State Amateur Champion  1988 Victorian State Amateur Champion

                                          
                      Leading Amateur -- 1987 Australian Open Championship

                         
                                  1988 New Zealand Amateur Champion

                     
     
                                                The 2004 Nationwide Tour WICHITA Open
a final round 65 forced a 4 man playoff and a birdie on the first playoff hole took the prize

 
            
                                    The 1993 AUSTRALIAN MASTERS
      Walking towards the 72nd green with my caddie. I birdied the hole for a 66 and a total of 11 under par to tie Peter Senior and would win the title on the first playoff hole.
                         
                    
  Receiving congratulations from Peter Senior after I defeated him in sudden death to win
                      The 1993 Australian Masters at Huntingdale Golf Club

 
                  Hitting a tee shot and holding up 10 fingers for the 10 birdie round
                     of 10 under par 62 at Fulford GC in York, England
                            in the 1989 Benson & Hedges International


            
                            The player-caddie relationship is an important factor for the
                                                        professional golfer
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                  CAREER HOLE IN ONES      9 (nine) in seven different countries

           COURSE RECORDS        12 (twelve) around the world with a 10 under par 63 at Huntingdale GC in Melbourne, Australia (Par 73)    and  a 10 under par 62 at Fulford GC, York, England (Par 72) being the low scores in relation to par

             LOWEST SCORE      60     12 under par    12 birdies & 6 pars
                                           at Sand Creek Station GC, Wichita, Kansas, August 2008 in a pro-am event which included 7 birdies in a row

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                    1988 Western Australian Open- * VIDEO *

                                            

waopen88 from Golf Aus on Vimeo.

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   I had a lot of fun being a contributor to Golf Australia in the late 1990's giving some insight and thoughts about my ideas and how the regular golfer could improve their own game   --    Here are a sample of a few of those magazine covers & printed lessons 

                     


        
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         WHAT ABOUT THE GOLF COURSES ?...
                 DON'T THEY DESERVE A SAY IN THINGS

The unfortunate thing about the technology invasion of golf is the fact that most -if not all- of the great golf courses of the past have become all but obsolete for tournament play.
Clubs and balls that fly too far have made for golf courses being built that are too long and too difficult for your average golfer.
Golf courses have too often become residential selling areas with 18 holes attached to them. The golf course itself has become secondary to the amount of real estate that can be sold at a profit.
Distances from greens to the next tee have been increased to upwards of 100-200 yards more or less making golfers drive in carts instead of walking and enjoying the surroundings.
Course designers are trying to outdo one another with water carry holes, island greens everywhere, crazy hole designs with ski moguls down the sides of the fairway and greens far too undulating for a tour pro let alone a regular golfer.
Golf has become over priced. A round of golf now takes far too long, Golfers lose too many balls in a round adding more expense because the courses are far from reality and not well designed tests of golf that offer different avenues for golfer's of varying abilities to be able to play upon.
The great courses are stretched to their limits and cannot be used for the world's greatest events as showcase courses any longer.
Courses are being built as a huge expense because of land needed which only adds to the cost of playing the game and golf is being over priced.
I doubt things will ever get back to how they should be but it would be a great time to stop the madness and have the golfing bodies of the world reign in the technology surge before golf becomes only for the rich and unenjoyable for your average player.
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This photograph of a hole shows perfectly what the modern golf game has become.

              The red line indicates how this hole was designed to be played.

 With the older equipment where the ball didn't travel as far and a 'wood' was actually made of wood you had to slide a drive up the left side of the fairway and let the natural contours bring the ball down towards the center of the fairway. You then had to avoid the fairway bunker with a shot that went too far and you had trees blocking your approach if you drove too far to the right and also a water hazard for the severe heel or toe mis- hit that veered off sideways. The left side was no bargain either with rough and a downhill sloping lie adding to the difficulty.

   The blue line indicates how this hole is played today with the new technology

Drivers that have hot trampoline like faces with huge heads and huge sweet spots and light graphite shafts and hard plastic balls that hardly move in flight allow a fantastically designed golf hole to become nothing more than a joke . Players now drive over all the trouble that was intended in the course design. Players now put their tee shot with in a few yards of the green, hitting a chip shot instead of the 120 yard approach that the designer of the hole required by positioning the tee shot.

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   This is your classic example of why great courses are now being made obsolete and why newer courses are coming up with ridiculous 520 yard Par 4 holes and 680 yard Par 5 holes- so they can try and protect par. All at a huge cost. Wouldn't it just have been easier for golf's governing bodies to reel this stuff in when they saw what was happening to the old courses and what the new courses had become?

The governing bodies of golf well and truly dropped the ball by allowing companies to advance their technology with almost no restrictions, to the point of making the course designers and even golfers from the past an after thought.  It's a very sad state of affairs


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        GOLF AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE PAST
            AND THE PROTECTION OF THE FUTURE
            
  
                     

usga from Golf Aus on Vimeo.

                                          
Golf's governing bodies saying one thing and totally doing another........
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And here below we have a newspaper article from 1976....with quotes and future references from the USGA equipment committee chairman about equipment that have been shelved and totally forgotten and not put into place.
It's very disappointing. If we can only take what they said in the past with a grain of salt how can we believe what they are saying now is the truth?

          

Ability is what should separate the good from the bad. The entire playing field has leveled out because of equipment that allows for mishits and by allowing clubs that are distance orientated even for the most obscene looking golf swings.
The golf ball travels too far and has terrible flight characteristics that don't allow for shot shaping. The ball flies too far and is designed to not curve and we have seen incredible ball strikers and control players such as Corey Pavin, Hal Sutton and Nick Faldo  phased out of the game.

Golf has now become a smash it as far as you can from the tee and been disheveled into a putting contest... The courses have become too short and many of the world's greatest courses are stretched to their limits and are now set up in a manner that is entirely off the mark of the original design set out by the world's great course designers of the past.

It is very sad that the state of the entire game has been influenced by money and equipment sales, instead of a golfer's ability to learn to swing the club correctly to produce the desired results.
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 What is being done? ................NOT A THING!!

It is more than amazing to me that the governing bodies of golf have turned a blind eye to the history of golf and the players who have come before us.

Jack Nicklaus, The Greatest Golfer of All Time, has been talking about rolling the distance back that the golf ball can travel for close to 20 years.

In an interview back in 2000, The King Arnold Palmer, had this to say:

"We have to be careful of technology and that also means slowing down the ball. We don't want Winged Foot, Oakmont, Medinah, Olympic Club and other great courses to become obsolete.
What a shame that would be if all the great courses couldn't be played any longer because of equipment.
We need much more propaganda about protecting this wonderful game. People need to understand that this (the historical courses and the players who have made golf what it is today) could all GO AWAY"

In a interview back in 2003 Gary Player also weighed in on the subject:
When asked : What is the biggest threat to the game of golf?    Player responded...

" That the USGA, a body we look up to, refuses to take a stand regarding technology. Every professional I talk to is very disappointed with the refusal of the ruling body to rule.
Commissioner Finchem could enhance the status of The Tour by taking a stand in PGA events and limiting the distance the ball is allowed to fly. This MUST be done"

As recently as June 2010 another golfing great, five time British Open champion,
Tom Watson was asked the following in an interview with Golf Magazine.

Golf Magazine:  As one of the game's great shotmakers, do you believe science is killing the art of golf?

Tom Watson:  The game has changed significantly. We can now make the ball go longer and straighter in flight. The hybrids make it much easier to play. You can miss hit the drivers today and they still get distance out of it. You certainly didn't get that with persimmon clubs.

Golf Magazine: How then would you improve the game?

Tom Watson: If I were commissioner, this is what I would do. They have started to reign in the grooves. I would also get rid of big broom handle putters. That is definitely not a stroke. I'd reduce the size of the driver from 460cc to 240cc. That gets the sweet spot a little smaller. You mis hit that and it's going to fall 20 to 30 yards short rather than 4 yards short like it does now. And then I would reduce the distance the ball can travel by 10 percent.
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If FOUR of the greatest golfers ever have a problem with things and have voiced their opinion over and over along the same theme for a long period of time....then WHY WON'T THE USGA and TOURS  LISTEN?

Like I mentioned earlier....if your motto is to protect the integrity and the traditions of the game.... then get out and DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the best players ever say there is a problem and they made notice of the problem over 20 years ago, what have the governing bodies been doing?
An entire 150 years of golf history and golf courses is at stake and it is being buried in the dirt. It is an appalling state of affairs.
Hopefully we can turn the tide and get the golfing ideology back to reality.. SOON

  It only seems fitting to finish off with another quote from amateur golfer and world revered golf legend Bobby Jones:

"I would never care to argue for anything that would lessen the difficulty of the game because difficulty is it's greatest charm"

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 What NEEDS TO BE DONE.....

As we can see the governing bodies of golf are refusing to do anything about the surge of technology that has brought the game into a decline.
Costs are up, golfers are down. The entire golfing experience is too expensive. Handicaps have not improved. Golf courses are being shut down... It is beyond a joke.

If the USGA and the R&A won't take a stand...why won't the PGA Tour's of the world do something?

They have different branches of racing with Formula 1, Indy Car, Nascar, Stock Cars.
They have aluminum bats in college baseball but you MUST use wooden bats in the Major League.
They have a different 3 point line in college basketball compared to the NBA.
They have rugby union, rugby league, super 12, Super 7....

All these different branches of the same sports but under differing rules with different equipment.

WHY?????... won't the PGA take a stand if no-one else will and set their own rules.
 They have a lot of their own rules in place as far as drops from grandstands and scaffolding and scoreboards and the like.
Why couldn't they just have a one tour fits all golf ball and the players could still get them stamped with their sponsors logos?
Why couldn't they limit the size of club heads and even limit the permissible lofts on wedges and have their own set of rules based on PGA tournament play?

If anyone can do it they can......WHY NOT?.... instead of waiting for the USGA and R&A to rule.....which they won't because they have no desire to eliminate the kickbacks that equipment throws in their direction.... the PGA TOURS need to do their own thing.
The Tour could then also stop the idiocy of players being disqualified from someone's living room with a high speed camera on television for a rules infraction that no-one knew about 48 hours previously.

Someone needs to take the bull by the horns....and reverse the trend.

We now also hear from former PGA Tour Commissioner Deane Beman talking in a recent interview with Golf World.. about just how far the game has twisted out of shape since he left his role as head of the PGA Tour back in the mid 1990's



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        Where have all the great ball strikers gone?
As such technology has brought the world's touring professionals to a stalemate where the art of shaping shots and playing each hole on it's merits has been lost. The days of players driving the ball down every fairway and hitting green after green in regulation to build a score is almost non existent.

Fairway bunkers are just there for landscaping as today's pros bomb their drive over them and don't care if they are in the rough or not because they only have a short iron to the green anyhow and the rough is very rarely penal in it's height to deter them from doing such a thing.

Par 72 courses have been reduced to par 68 courses because no par 5 holes exist out on tour any longer. So when you see a pro shoot 16 under par he is really only even par based on the reality of it all.

Shaping drives around doglegs or fairway bunkers doesn't exist and playing the hole as it was originally intended to be played is a thing of the past.

The governing bodies of golf have allowed far too much technology dictate the way the game is played. The governing bodies duty was to protect the heritage of golf and the integrity of the game and they didn't do a good enough job of doing what they were actually meant to do by assuming their position.

Golf at the biggest stage has become nothing but a smash a drive somewhere and the tournament result now normally hinges on a  putting contest to see who wins.

It is truly sad in that regard that we may never see the ball striking exploits of a Trevino or Hogan again.....

It makes no sense that your Number 1 & 2 golfers in the world the past 5 years can barely hit more than 50% of the fairways between them on average for an entire year.
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What does this tell us about the direction golf has headed?
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