Published - 3 weeks By - Golf Australia
Gold Coast golfer Jordan O’Brien flew the flag proudly for International Women’s Day with a stunning 67 on Monday to qualify for the Isuzu Queensland Open.
Birdies will always beat biceps because the petite 56kg amateur grabbed eight at Pelican Waters Golf Club to leave a host of male pros and amateurs in her wake.
Despite regularly giving up 30-40m off the tee to her three male playing partners, she rode her own excellent driving and short game to the biggest moment of her career.
The Royal Pines member played the course off the same tees as the men albeit from the forward markers in operation for pre-qualifying day.
Published - 1 month By - Tony Webeck
Ever since the first event of The Players Series at Rosebud Country Club in late January, promising Australian female professionals have been dominating our TV screens.
First it was Stephanie Bunque and Kirsten Rudgeley emerging from relative obscurity to put their names up in lights at Rosebud before LPGA Tour player Su Oh pushed Elvis Smylie and eventual champion Brad Kennedy all the way on Sunday.
Then ‘Holey Moley’ happened, a million people tuning into the first episode featuring Montana Strauss and more than 500,000 viewers introduced to young Aussie golf pros such as Becky Kay and Kristalle Blum.
Contestants play miniature golf on a bizarre obstacle course in Australian competitive reality series Holey Moley.
The quote ‘Golf is a good walk spoiled’ is attributed to Mark Twain. But imagine if that ‘good walk’ was a mad dash spoiled by fire-breathing dragons, shark-infested lagoons, and other booby traps? Yes, it’s golf but not as we know it. The game is
Holey Moley, mini golf on steroids turned into a madcap, full-on reality show, currently screening on Three.
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Matt Shirvington from Holey Moley The concept is simple. The winners of eight weekly rounds go into a grand final where they get a one-putt shot at a $A100,00 prize on a hole named The Tomb Of Nefer-Tee-Tee.
Holey Moley host Rob Riggle has slammed cancel culture as a threat to the livelihoods of comedians.
The American funnyman, who hosts the Australian and American versions of the mini-golf game show Holey Moley, told The Daily Telegraph on Saturday that while once controversial comedians were seen as rebels, now they face being cancelled . Now people try to cancel you - they try to make it so that you can t have a living anymore - and that s different. That s a different kind of ballgame.
Cancelled: Holey Moley host Rob Riggle (pictured) has slammed cancel culture as a threat to the livelihoods of comedians. He told The Daily Telegraph on Saturday that while once controversial comedians were seen as rebels, now they face being cancelled