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Lytham and Secret Plans: How the International team sacked an Aussie golf legend

Lytham and Secret Plans: How the International team sacked an Aussie golf legend

The Presidents Cup kicked off in 1994 with a 20-12 win to the USA at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia. Within two years, the International team had sacked their captain, Australian golf legend, David Graham. Nearly 30 years later, some of the players regret it still. 26 Sep 2024
International Rescue: Can the Aussies save the Presidents Cup?

International Rescue: Can the Aussies save the Presidents Cup?

Once again the International team will be relying on the Aussie stars to supply the bulk of the team spirit in their war against the Americans in the Presidents Cup. This isn’t specifically Australia’s fight to take up, but it’s one we’re in, whether it still captivates the fans or not. 25 Sep 2024
CLEARY: Zed's dead but LIV lives, one year on from predicted doom

CLEARY: Zed's dead but LIV lives, one year on from predicted doom

Unlike Zed who is dead, LIV Golf is still kicking and Greg Norman remains chief executive despite a proposal that he be "terminated”. 27 Jul 2024
Feature story: This is Royal Troon

Feature story: This is Royal Troon

This week The Open returns to Royal Troon for the 10th time across its 152-year history. While not as popular with the tourists as some of the other glamour courses across Scotland, this layout’s claim to fame is the mental challenge it presents to those brave enough to take it on. 16 Jul 2024
Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

Cleary: Australian golf right to play Switzerland in game's civil war

As critiqued on social media by his excellency, the Great White Shark Greg Norman, the PGA of Australia didn’t use the names ‘LIV Golf’ or ‘Ripper GC’ when congratulating the all-Aussie team that had won back-to-back LIV tournaments in Adelaide and Singapore. 13 May 2024
CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

CLEARY: How Aussies' LIV win is explained by Rocky IV

As ever, it’s Rocky Balboa who says it best. 6 May 2024
R&A unaware if Norman plans to attend Open

R&A unaware if Norman plans to attend Open

The R&A is not aware if LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman plans to be among a record crowd for this year's Open Championship at Royal Troon. 1 May 2024
Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Cleary: Merge? Forget it. LIV Golf should take on the PGA Tour

Greg Norman has this line when asked about the ‘Framework Agreement’ or ‘merger’, or whatever they call the interminable discussion between the Strategic Sports Group, PGA Tour Inc. and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia to decide what ‘golf’ will look like in 2025 and beyond. And it goes, effectively, like this: 29 Apr 2024
Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

Ripper! Aussie team downs South Africans in raucous LIV Adelaide play-off

We’re at The Grange GC for the LIV league's first teams play-off and the crowds line the 18th fairway 20-deep all the way down its 345 metres. The humanity forms an eddy around the green which spills upwards into the stands and the suites called ‘Club 54’. It's the all-Australian Ripper team taking on the all-South African Stingers. There are people in the trees. 28 Apr 2024
Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

Ripper: Aussies in touch after entertaining day one at LIV Adelaide

The big sign at the front gate of The Grange says 'WELCOME' in LIV Golf's recognisable font with aquamarine plumage, and on Friday for day one of the second annual golf-, drink- and music-fest maybe 35,000 fans said don't mind if they do. 26 Apr 2024
Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

Cleary: If nobody cares about LIV Golf, why do so many people care?

The man on talkback radio was adamant: it’s party golf. It’s an exhibition. It isn’t real golf. The punters on Facebook agree: no legacy, no history, no value. And the kicker, uttered without irony, without reading this yarn: nobody cares. 25 Apr 2024
Norman rejects other states, locks in Adelaide

Norman rejects other states, locks in Adelaide

Greg Norman has rejected lucrative offers from other states to declare Adelaide as the sole LIV Golf host in Australia for the foreseeable future. 24 Apr 2024
Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

Turn it up: Greg Norman on Rory McIlroy, LIV Adelaide, and the "best golf event that's ever been to Australia"

And so to Adelaide for a movie we’ve seen before - call it 'LIV Adelaide II: Return to The Grange' - and we’re straight into a mighty marquee for a Big Cheese Presser, Matt Cleary reports. 24 Apr 2024
Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

Cleary: The LIV Golf vs PGA Tour argument is a rabbit hole full of Komodo Dragons

LIV Golf’s on this week which means one thing: golf’s version of #CodeWars will heat up again, with punters and pundits shouting opinions into TikTok, or what have you, about whether the PGA Tour or LIV Golf is better, and denigrating the other one to make their point. 22 Apr 2024
Huggan: LIV update… or downdate

Huggan: LIV update… or downdate

The proud “father” that is Greg Norman came to watch his 13-strong LIV clan in action at the Masters Tournament. 13 Apr 2024
The Shark strolls the Augusta fairways again

The Shark strolls the Augusta fairways again

A year after being persona non grata at Augusta National, Australian golf legend Greg Norman is back at the Masters, declaring "the boss is here" to cheer on his LIV stars. 11 Apr 2024
Cleary: Scottie Scheffler and the triumph of the most boring man alive

Cleary: Scottie Scheffler and the triumph of the most boring man alive

‘Schadenfreude’ is a cracker of a German word describing “the pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune”. It talks to a certain, half-dark part of us. It talks to the pleasure of death-riding certain golfers in tournaments on television. 18 Mar 2024
Cleary: Fear, loathing and exceptionalism - why the PGA Tour is bad for world golf

Cleary: Fear, loathing and exceptionalism - why the PGA Tour is bad for world golf

There’s a theory, a term, you could call it a Thing, called ‘American exceptionalism’, in which many of our dear, sweet and slightly left-field cousins in America believe to their star-spangled bootstraps that they live in the greatest land of liberty in the history of humankind. 4 Mar 2024
A Shark's Tale

A Shark's Tale

Greg Norman can sell. Because “Greg Norman” sells. 17 Jan 2024
Norman's phone 'blowing up' since Rahm's LIV move

Norman's phone 'blowing up' since Rahm's LIV move

LIV Golf League CEO and commissioner Greg Norman says there are eight to 12 players who are "blowing up" his phone about wanting to join the new LIV team that will be captained by Jon Rahm. 14 Dec 2023
Inside Golf Australia January 2024

Inside Golf Australia January 2024

Head into the new year by planning your next adventure with the comprehensive ranking of Australia's Top-100 Courses. 14 Dec 2023