Sport
10 Mar 10 | When Rhys Halliday stepped up to play his final hole of the day, the 20-year-old was torn between what club to select.
09 Mar 10 | Maitland golf professional Vikki Tutt would be hard pressed to argue with the Finn brothers following the week she has experienced.
03 Mar 10 | Maitland went within a whisker of claiming the Hunter River District Golf Association (HRDGA) junior pennant title, but fell narrowly short of Muswellbrook at the final hurdle.
03 Mar 10 | It seems wherever one travels in the golfing world, there is a Maitland connection.
Maitland professional Vikki Tutt will put one such link to good use on the Gold Coast this week.
10 Feb 10 | People are quite often more comfortable in familiar surrounds and golfers are no exception.
Matt Jones drove this point home on Monday, as he took out The Vintage trainee match by two shots on a Coalfields course not all that far from his Rutherford home.
08 Feb 10 | Denman broke their duck yesterday against Kurri Kurri in the senior grade pennants at Paterson Golf Club.
Denman had been winless this season before facing Kurri, who they edged out 2-1.
01 Feb 10 | Branxton’s pennants players have leapfrogged their way to second spot on the junior table after a 3.5-1.5 win over Singleton at Branxton Golf Course.
20 Jan 10 | The last time Andrew Wyper played in the Lake Macquarie Amateur Championship, Phil Mickleson had won his first major and Adam Scott became the youngest winner of The Players Championship.
20 Jan 10 | Matthew Jones felt the heat a little more than usual on Monday.
Jones, in his bid to leave his Rutherford home at 3am bound for the State’s opening trainee professional tournament of the year in Sydney, forgot his hat.
18 Jan 10 | Steve Jones gave Maitland victory over Branxton in the A-grade Hunter River District Golf pennants with a tight win on the last hole.
15 Jan 10 | Sam Sinclair will look to bounce back on Friday from a tough opening round at Belmont Golf Course in the Lake Macquarie Women’s Amateur Championship on Thursday.
14 Jan 10 | Sam Sinclair won her first golf tournament as a nine year old at Belmont Golf Course.
Back then she was playing in the girls’ cadet category.
13 Jan 10 | Adrian Chomiszak had a five metre putt to win the Branxton Junior Open on the final hole yesterday – he missed.
12 Jan 10 | Branxton golfer Adrian Chomiszak has a chance to win the first major junior tournament held at his home course in more than a decade when he resumes as the overnight leader today.
11 Jan 10 | The resurgence of the Branxton Junior Open is close to the heart of club president Richard Crooks.
04 Jan 10 | Two sets of Hunter Valley brothers will converge on some of Sydney’s most exclusive golf courses this week.
Nick and Hayden Gulliver and Kade and Liam Hardy will play five courses in five days this week as part of the Week of Golf tournament – an annual event run by the Jack Newton Junior Golf Foundation.
15 Dec 09 | Ashtonfield’s Vikki Tutt is looking to round off her year on the professional tour with “a bit of fun” at the 31st annual Jack Newton Celebrity Classic today.
14 Dec 09 | Sydney’s Sarah Kemp came from behind yesterday to claim her second Australian Ladies Professional Golf (ALPG) tournament in a week at the Branxton Pro-Am.
11 Dec 09 | Tiger Woods brought the frenzy, Adam Scott brought the emotion.
Now Sarah Kemp is about to bring the glamour back to the greens as Australia’s current love-affair with golf continues at Branxton this weekend.
08 Dec 09 | Kurri Golf Club members took full advantage of their home turf knowledge to dominate the annual Kurri Open on Saturday.