The golf calendar’s most awaited week has arrived. The Masters. As Ryan Fox, no longer a Masters rookie, observed a few days ago, “It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve played Augusta, every time you enter through the gates and take the drive up Magnolia Lane to the clubhouse, it’s a goose bump experience”. Ryan, unfortunately, could hardly have been more ill-prepared, after being laid low a month ago with kidney stones. Since then he’s only played two rounds of competitive

Shooting a score of 60 in any tournament, be it as an amateur or a top professional, is a moment of unalloyed joy which very few golfers experience at any time in their career. Yet both New Zealand’s top two golfers, Ryan Fox and Lydia Ko, have joined this elite club this year. Ryan Fox, playing in a charity event prior to starting his 2026 overseas playing schedule, wheeled out a 10-under par 60 on the Akarana Golf course in Auckland, setting a new course record that will no

Steve Alker hasn’t been very visible on the Seniors’ Tour in the United States this year for a very good reason. He’s been Down Under visiting his home country preparing for and playing in the NZ Open in Queenstown. No sooner was he back in the States than he quickly got back to his winning ways, picking up his 11th win on this Tour and probably his most spectacular. At the halfway stage Alker was 9 shots off the lead but over the weekend he shot 62 then 65 to force a playof