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Morri: Savour the shot, not the score
Australia has one of the best golf cultures in the world and, for the most part, an approach to the game that is the envy of many outside these shores.
8 May 2019
Morri: The Endless Summer
Golf shares similarities with lots of other sports but one of its great appeals is that it simultaneously manages to remain wholly unique.
1 May 2019
Morri: A new defence of public golf
In light of some unexpected feedback to a column on the closure of the council-owned Hudson Park golf course in Sydney last month, two interesting pieces of correspondence have emerged on this topic in the past two weeks.
26 Apr 2019
Morri: Tiger – The golfing gift that just keeps on giving
In the scheme of things it’s not important though, of course, somehow it is.
17 Apr 2019
Morri: When the image of perfection is just a veneer
There was an awful lot to like about the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur but that shouldn’t earn the world’s best-known golf club a free pass for what they got wrong.
10 Apr 2019
Morri: Kuchar right to play by the rules
The incident was bad enough but the response to it – much of it from people who should know better – was genuinely confronting.
3 Apr 2019
Morri: Not so picture perfect golf
So deep is the obsession with the year’s first men’s major that there is a website dedicated to counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until The Masters is upon us.
28 Mar 2019
Morri: Golf’s Image Problem
News of the closure of Sydney’s Hudson Park golf course this past week got me thinking – again – about the future of the game in this country.
21 Mar 2019
Morri: The PGA Tour's major play
Whether it was a verbal slip up or part of a deliberate conspiracy, David Duval let the cat out of the bag last week.
14 Mar 2019
Morri: Settle down now, children
Divided. That, sadly, is the one word answer I would feel compelled to give if asked to sum up golf right now.
7 Mar 2019
Morri: The game’s true entertainers
Why is it that more people don’t like or watch women’s golf? If the goal of professional golf is to entertain – and I am of the firm belief it is – then sheer bloody mindedness is the only possible reason for a golfer not to take an interest in the women’s game.
28 Feb 2019
MORRI: Thankfully, the grass isn’t always greener
If you’re a fan of golf courses, this past week might just have been the highlight of the 2019 schedule.
21 Feb 2019
Confident Kemp rolls into town
It’s been a whirlwind two weeks for Sarah Kemp, but the popular NSW golfer is planning just to let the good times keep rolling at this week’s Pacific Bay Resort Australian Ladies Classic – Bonville.
20 Feb 2019
Morri: Golf – Art? Science? Both?
It is testament to the endlessly fascinating nature of golf that it attracts – in almost equal number – both artists and engineers.
14 Feb 2019
Morri: Learn the letter of the law
Are the Rules of Golf dumb? Stupid? Absurd? Ridiculous?
7 Feb 2019
Su Oh: It all starts with a ‘W’
A win in this week’s Women’s British Open would be a life-changer for young Victorian Su Oh. Here, she reflects on what winning might mean and her journey so far as a professional golfer.
1 Aug 2018
MORRI: A wise man once wrote …
THE loss of five-time Open champion Peter Thomson last week brought to mind an age-old saying in this business.
28 Jun 2018
Late Bloomer
Kym Olsen often wondered if he could have made it as a professional golfer. For many years life seemed to conspire against it but now, with seven wins in his rookie season on the Australian Legends tour, it seems the bitter-sweet answer to that question might just be yes.
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