When you’re ranked the world’s 589th best golfer, it’s a fair bet that hard-nosed Aussie bookies were probably offering odds of about 589 to 1 that a 31-year-old itinerant Kiwi golfer called Nick Voke would win the Australian PGA. The Aucklander nonetheless probably had a few of those Aussie bookies sweating profusely over the closing hours of the Australian PGA as he stitched together the lowest round of the 4th day, a 5-under 66, which saw him slot home in a tie for third p

For some years now, Lydia Ko, currently 28 years of age, has been at pains to point out she doesn’t intend to be playing professional golf beyond the age of 30. That being the case, we can’t expect to be seeing Lydia hitting that little white ball for any more than another 18 months. Her last appearance this year on the USLPGA Tour was the CME Globe last week - the traditional season-ending finale on the LPGA Tour. It offers what the Head of CME Globe said at the prize giving

Close calls are, as we know only too well, the very essence, the very life blood, of sport. Not knowing the final outcome of a big sporting event until the very last minute or last play is what all sports fans quickly become addicted to. We Kiwi sports fans experienced a couple of those nerve-wrackers over the weekend. Just a pity neither of them involved the All Blacks. No, 33-19 is not a close call. Not even Donald Trump could pass that score off as a close shave. No, the t