A Senior Moment
Hello Golfers,
Forget youthful exuberance, forget daily gym work outs, and perfect golf swings that come straight out of the textbook, what you need is competiveness and Peter Senior showed us and the entire field on Sunday how to win.
In a round where the young guns fell by the way side, Senior kept ploughing the fairways and hitting greens and missing them in the right places, his accuracy off the tee was impressive and his short game was great too. I wonder how he would of faired if the new long putter rule would have been introduced, but with such strong winds it was mighty impressive to control the long stick.
Can Senior repeat what Chalmers did last year and win the double, I would not bet against it, and pray for some bad weather so that his ultra competitiveness can shine through. Senior played down his chances of victory this week.
" I think you better keep your money in your pockets, lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice," he said.
Senior said a while back that his game was well suited to Coolum.
"Coolum has been a good hunting ground for me and I've played pretty well here over the last few years and won twice around here," Senior said.
"I'm definitely more consistent than I have ever been and I have to thank (swing coach) Gary Edwin for that, we have worked pretty hard on certain areas.
"It's a course where the longer hitters don't have a great advantage, it's more about placement and if I can putt as I did last week, who knows."
I don’t know about you but the odds sound good and there will be lots of bets being placed on this modern day legend of the game.
"I am pretty pleased with the way I've played over the last three years, hopefully I can get another two or three years out of it and then I'll probably call it quits."
Other News
Darren Clarke wants to strike another blow for golf's "dinosaurs" at Coolum this week and he is unflustered by the circus surrounds created by resort owner Clive Palmer.
"There are a few of us old guys out there, but it is the first time I've seen a dinosaur on a golf course," Clarke, 44, said with a wry smile after saluting Peter Senior's Australian Open triumph at 53.
The dinosaurs and the whole Clive Palmer fiasco (really it’s always the same with Clive!) has not put Clarke off at all, he still rates
the course and let’s hope he can raise his game and challenge
for the title.
Clarke shrugged off the grass signage eyesores and the free-drop rule that has been created to give players relief if they land a ball on the paint or the dinosaur.
"It's different, but it is what it is. The course is as good as ever," Clarke said.
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 PRO TIP:When the Wind Blows
We saw in the Australian Open how the wind affects
the ball.
Into the wind: Take plenty of club, grip down the shaft and take a three quarter length swing. The idea is to impart the least amount of spin possible so that the ball drills through the wind with a lower trajectory.
Have a great weekend,
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