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Penalty or no penalty? These tricky scenarios will test you
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 12/11/2025
» Let's see how good you know your golf rules; Here's some questions that will get you thinking -- You and your opponent are using the same type of ball in a match and inadvertently play each other's ball into the green. You're not sure who played a shot with the wrong ball first, so you finish out the hole as if nothing happened. Penalty or no penalty?
A few simple setup tweaks
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 06/08/2025
» Those of us getting on in life usually have more time to play but suffer from less flexibility, less range of motion and less speed. It's a sad combination, especially when your brain still remembers the swing you used to have.
Planned payout for rich golfers raises questions
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 02/01/2022
» Phil Mickelson claims he has won the year-long Player Impact Program (PIP) and the US$8 million bonus while Tiger Woods reportedly took second place and $6 million, although the PGA Tour said the results will not be official until next month.
Worrying time for Reed, Leadbetter
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 31/03/2019
» Reigning Masters champion Patrick Reed is taking lessons from veteran swing coach David Leadbetter. This news made me slip back down memory lane, of me arriving at his academy in Florida many years ago. I was just starting my career as a coach and had this idea of asking my students to sponsor me to go over, from Australia, to take some lessons from him. After much deliberation, I called my regulars who, upon hearing my anguished proposition for funds, agreed to pay upfront for several David Leadbetter inspired lessons that I would give them upon my return.
New rules streamlined to speed up play
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 18/11/2018
» The good news for golfers is that the number of rules have been streamlined and "hopefully" simplified to help speed up play.
Leaving Wallace out defies logic
Sports, Brett Brasier, Published on 09/09/2018
» Spare a thought for Matt Wallace who must have thought after winning his third tournament of the year that he would be picked for a few games in France in a few weeks time. Just consider his disappointment when Thomas Bjorn called him with the news that he would not be picked.