The July issue of Inside Golf is online for your viewing pleasure. This month: GREAT SCOTT 23 years, 93 majors, a remarkable streak continues SOUTHERN CELEBRATES BOB SHEARER HOT WHEELS The best buggies – drive or walk CELEBRITY SWINGER Mick Fanning THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP Royal Troon preview TRAVEL ADVENTURES Discover Golf in WA Exploring Malaysia’s Central Region Golf Cruise The Great Lakes – Toronto to Chicago RESORT OF THE MONTH Moonah Links … and much more! READ ONLINE HERE The post July 2024 Issue of Inside Golf is Online first appeared on Inside Golf. Australia's Most-Read Golf Magazine a ..read more

Kim denied second LPGA success Sydney’s Grace Kim has suffered a heartbreaking playoff defeat to be denied a second LPGA Tour win at the Meijer LPGA Classic in Michigan. Kim began the final round at Blythefield Country Club with a five-stroke lead, an advantage erased completely by the time she stepped onto the fifth tee. Stumbling out of the blocks with back-to-back bogeys, Kim was caught by fast-starting American Ally Ewing before being challenged on the back nine by the experienced pair of Lilia Vu and Lexi Thompson. Showing impressive composure to stay in contention, the 23-year-old Kim ar ..read more

By Rob Willis IT began at the 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, when Adam Scott finished in a tie for 47th in his major championship debut.  While no doubt a young player of promise, little did he, or anyone else in the golfing world for that matter, know it would be the start of a remarkable career and an incredible streak.  Following an appearance at the US Open at Pinehurst last month, where he was forced to go through a 36-hole qualifying event before being granted one of the final places in the tournament field, Scott now heads to Royal Troon in July for wha ..read more

By Peter Owen HE’S probably the best-known and most popular caddie in the golf world. And if you think Mike ‘Fluff’ Cowan has been around forever, you’re not far off the mark. Cowan, with his trademark bushy white moustache and hippety-hop gait, has been lugging the heavy bags of some of the world’s best golfers for a half century. And at 76, the veteran caddie has no plans to quit anytime soon. He’s just ended a 25-year partnership with veteran Jim Furyk and agreed to carry the bag of promising young Taiwanese pro C.T. Pan for the rest of the year, or as long as his aching back allows. Why do ..read more

The famous ‘Postage Stamp’ the par three eighth hole at Royal Troon.  FOR the 10th time in 101 years, the Open Championship returns to Royal Troon Golf Club from July 18-21. Founded in 1878, Royal Troon is renowned as one of the greatest links courses. The Old Course represents a stern golfing examination and, in particular, the inward half of Royal Troon is widely accepted as the most demanding of any golf course on the championship rota.  Here is Inside Golf’s A to Z guide to the 146-year-old club and course ahead of The Open. A is for Americans. The Yanks have a good record at Ro ..read more

0 pounds was on offer for the first three Open Championships (1860-61-62). 2 Claret Jugs have been lifted by eight players including Greg Norman. 3 left-handers have won The Open Championship – Kiwi Bob Charles (1963), Phil Mickelson (2013) and Brian Harman (2023). And 3 is the number of decades spanning Gary Player’s Open victories – 1959, 1968 and 1974. 4 is the number of successive victories by Tom Morris Jr (1868-1872). There was no championship in 1871.  Peter Thomson, a five-time winner of the Open Championship. 5 Aussies have won the Open – Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Greg Norman, Ia ..read more

Greg Chalmers, playing in the last group on the last day, was in contention until the closing holes at the recent PGA Senior Championship. By Peter Owen GREG Chalmers, the neat left-hander who has twice won the Australian Open, has never been known for his length off the tee, relying instead on crisp iron play and an immaculate short game to get the job done. But when he joined the PGA Tour Champions last year, competing against golfers on the wrong side of 50, he discovered to his delight that he was one of the tour’s longest hitters, bombing drives 40 and 50 metres further than most of his ..read more

IT was an emotional day for Kathie Shearer, her sons Bobby and Brett and grandson, Jake, as the family recently unveiled a statue to honour her late husband Bob, at his beloved Southern Golf Club. Fittingly, as guests gathered to get their first glimpse of the amazing life size work of Shearer powering a six iron down the 18th fairway, only the thwack of club on ball from golfers on the nearby tee broke the silence. It must be said here that bronze statue by sculptor Louis Laumen and Cameron McIndoe of Fundere Foundry is quite frankly a superb work. The Shearer family, wife Kathie, sons Bobby ..read more

Warwick Butler (left) is congratulated by Tumut Golf Club president Peter Linnegar. TUMUT golfer Warwick Butler may not be living the dream . . . but he’s about to. Butler is heading for the Open Championship at Royal Troon, thanks to a nationwide competition run by Golf Australia. It was appropriately called ‘Play 9’ and each golfer who entered was asked to nominate for a nine-hole event. It meant that each time a contestant played in any nine-hole event run by their club between February 26 and April 29, that member was automatically in the running to win. Butler was one of two winners, wit ..read more

By Peter Owen PLAYING perhaps the best golf of her career, Queensland’s Katelyn Must has some unfinished business to clean up after being selected in Australia’s team to contest the Women’s PGA Cup in the United States in October. Must was a member of the Australian team which finished fourth behind the US and Canada when the event was last contested two years ago and hopes to improve on that showing in Oregon from October 1 to 5. “There’s something special about wearing the green and gold and representing your country,” Must said. “I’ve played in major events like the European Masters, but be ..read more