No Love for the Aussie Open?

[broth518]

A top notch event:

 

In the time since that 1904 championship, the Open has evolved from an event of limited local standing to being rated by the likes of Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd and Jack Nicklaus as the world's fifth Major. It has been the stage for the game's greatest ever players as they have battled to claim Australian golf's most prized piece of silverware – the Stonehaven Cup. It is of no surprise then, that the names engraved on that cup are synonymous with Major championship history.

 

http://www.australianopengolf.com/

 

A top notch field.... (Scott, Ogilvy, Badds, Allenby, Lonard, Appleby, Parry, Estes......)

 

And No TV coverage in the USA?

 

TGC WTF?

 

They are showing a day late round on Tiger in Japan but no Australian Open?

 

;)

[Simp]

A top notch event:

 

In the time since that 1904 championship, the Open has evolved from an event of limited local standing to being rated by the likes of Nick Faldo, Raymond Floyd and Jack Nicklaus as the world's fifth Major. It has been the stage for the game's greatest ever players as they have battled to claim Australian golf's most prized piece of silverware – the Stonehaven Cup. It is of no surprise then, that the names engraved on that cup are synonymous with Major championship history.

 

http://www.australianopengolf.com/

 

A top notch field.... (Scott, Ogilvy, Badds, Allenby, Lonard, Appleby, Parry, Estes......)

 

And No TV coverage in the USA?

 

TGC WTF?

 

They are showing a day late round on Tiger in Japan but no Australian Open?

 

;)

 

 

I agree. I would LOVE to see the Australian Open on television. As for the games 5th major...:crazy: The Players Championship may have something to say about that. :D

 

It's definitely a huge event for Aussie golfers, but just doesn't get a very big draw of US players.

[broth518]

Australian Open Scores

 

First Round

 

Nathan Green, Australia 32-35--67

Richard Green, Australia 35-34--69

Jarrod Lyle, Australia 35-34--69

Andrew Martin, Australia 34-37--71

Ryan Haller, Australia 38-33--71

Peter Lonard, Australia 35-36--71

Geoff Ogilvy, Australia 37-35--72

Luke Hickmott, Australia 36-36--72

Glen Dick, Australia 35-37--72

Steven Bowditch, Australia 35-37--72

Mitchell Tasker, Australia 37-36--73

Terry Price, Australia 36-37--73

Mathew Goggin, Australia 34-39--73

Peter O'Malley, Australia 35-38--73

Gavin Coles, Australia 37-36--73

Alex Simpson, Australia 38-35--73

Nick O'Hern, Australia 38-35--73

Cameron Percy, Australia 36-37--73

Neil Sarkies, Australia 35-38--73

Brett Rumford, Australia 38-36--74

Ewan Porter, Australia 36-38--74

a-Rory McIlroy, Ireland 37-37--74

Adam Scott, Australia 36-38--74

Will MacKenzie, United States 35-39--74

Paul Sheehan, Australia 40-34--74

Larry Austin, Australia 37-37--74

Ashley Hall, Australia 39-36--75

Aaron Baddeley, Australia 36-39--75

Aaron Black, Australia 37-38--75

Adam Bland, Australia 38-37--75

Stuart Appleby, Australia 39-36--75

Kevin Stadler, United States 41-34--75

Kurt Barnes, Australia 33-42--75

Jason Norris, Australia 37-38--75

Kevin Chun, New Zealand 39-36--75

a-Richie Gallichan, Australia 38-38--76

John Senden, Australia 37-39--76

Ricky Schmidt, Australia 39-37--76

Stuart Bouvier, Australia 40-36--76

a-Tim Stewart, Australia 37-39--76

Mitchell Brown, Australia 37-39--76

Anthony Painter, Australia 38-38--76

Tony Christie, New Zealand 37-39--76

Matthew Ecob, Australia 38-38--76

Marcus Fraser, Australia 37-39--76

Ben Bunny, Australia 39-37--76

Paul Gow, Australia 39-37--76

Bob Estes, United States 38-39--77

a-Matthew Giles, Australia 38-39--77

Pat Giles, Australia 36-41--77

a-Adam Stephens, Australia 42-35--77

Robert Allenby, Australia 39-38--77

Rod Pampling, Australia 38-39--77

Scott Draper, Australia 41-36--77

Bradley Iles, New Zealand 39-38--77

Martin Pettigrew, New Zealand 39-38--77

a-Stephen Dartnall, Australia 38-39--77

a-Andrew Dodt, Australia 37-40--77

Marcus Cain, Australia 42-35--77

Heath Reed, Australia 38-39--77

a-Bronson Lacassie, Australia 38-39--77

a-Adam Revai, Australia 38-39--77

Peter Wilson, Australia 39-38--77

Stephen Leaney, Australia 38-40--78

Wayne Grady, Australia 41-37--78

Dean Alaban, Australia 38-40--78

Shaun Piper, Australia 38-40--78

Ben Burge, Australia 42-36--78

Mark Brown, New Zealand 37-41--78

Nick Flanagan, Australia 39-39--78

Craig Scott, Australia 40-38--78

Anthony Summers, Australia 37-41--78

Jarrod Moseley, Australia 40-38--78

Michael Brennan, Australia 40-38--78

Michael Curtain, Australia 38-40--78

Matthew Ballard, Australia 41-38--79

Craig Carmichael, Australia 38-41--79

Greg Norman, Australia 41-38--79

a-Cheng Pan, Taiwan 37-42--79

Andrew Tschudin, Australia 41-38--79

a-Danny An, Australia 41-38--79

a-Michael Raseta, Australia 40-39--79

a-Rohan Blizard, Australia 39-40--79

David Walker, Australia 37-42--79

Adrian Percey, Australia 39-40--79

Joe Templar, England 39-40--79

Shane Baxter, Australia 41-38--79

a-Josh Younger, Australia 38-41--79

Tetsuya Watari, Japan 41-38--79

Peter Senior, Australia 40-39--79

Adam Wilcox, Australia 39-40--79

Michael Harwood, Australia 39-41--80

a-Rick Kulacz, Australia 38-42--80

Paul Marantz, Australia 38-42--80

Robin Hodgetts, Australia 41-39--80

Robert Curtis, Australia 41-39--80

Matthew Elliott, Australia 41-39--80

a-Kyu Sim, Australia 40-40--80

Aaron Townsend, Australia 39-41--80

a-Rudi Bezuidenhout, Australia 40-40--80

Peter Nolan, Australia 40-40--80

Martin Doyle, Australia 39-42--81

Ryan Haywood, Australia 41-40--81

Euan Walters, Australia 41-40--81

a-Boyd Watts, Australia 41-40--81

Tony McFadyean, Australia 40-41--81

Steven Myers, Australia 38-44--82

Craig Parry, Australia 42-40--82

a-Jamie Arnold, Australia 40-42--82

Andrew Johnson, Australia 43-39--82

a-Daniel Nisbet, Australia 43-39--82

Brett Partridge, Australia 42-40--82

Adam Crawford, Australia 39-43--82

Scott Fisher, Australia 42-40--82

Anthony Wall, England 39-43--82

a-Matt Jager, Australia 44-38--82

Anthony Brown, Australia 39-43--82

Ben Parker, England 43-39--82

Nigel Stivala, Australia 38-44--82

a-Matt Thomas, Australia 41-41--82

Darren Beck, Australia 41-41--82

a-Peter Cooke, Australia 39-44--83

Jason King, Australia 42-41--83

Leigh McKechnie, Australia 41-42--83

Rowan Beste, Australia 44-39--83

Dylan Taylor, Australia 40-43--83

Troy Kennedy, Australia 43-40--83

a-Daniel Popovic, Australia 39-44--83

a-Brett Rankin, Australia 42-41--83

a-Matthew Gleeson, Australia 39-44--83

Brady Sherwood, Australia 42-42--84

Andrew Pitt, Australia 40-44--84

Eric Egloff, United States 40-44--84

Anthony Still, Australia 40-44--84

Richard Kent, Australia 41-44--85

Scott Adland, Australia 42-43--85

Matthew Guyatt, Australia 39-46--85

a-Danny Lee, New Zealand 43-42--85

Jens Nilsson, Sweden 42-44--86

a-Brent McCullough, Australia 43-44--87

Tristan Lambert, Australia 45-42--87

Brad Andrews, Australia 46-41--87

Neil Speirs, Australia 46-42--88

Lucas Parsons, Australia WD

[Simp]

Wow, look at all of the amateurs in the field! I like that.

[Ducky]

I am watching it right now. The conditions yesterday were quite tough. The two guys who were leading the first round (Nathan Green and Richard Green) were the two who putted the best. One of the commentators (Jack Newton) said that Richard Green had 22 putts, which is quite an achievement considering how undulated the greens are.

 

Unfortunately, you may not even get to see any pictures considering all cameras/phones have been banned.

[tanj]

Same here I'm watching it right now, second round. I have been lucky enough to have played that course, Royal Sydney GC, before.

 

I had a 7 over 79 playing off a handicap of 6. Sad thing was that I went 36-43-89 and I had four birdies. I remember finishing each nine with birds and the tees were off the back. Very nice course, but I little too tight from the fairway to the trees. That is, there was not enough rough.

 

Josh

[arod_nyy13]

I was out there Tuesday. Course isn't that long, but the conditions the last two days have been disgraceful. The cut was +9. Nathan Green's playing really well, but I still like Ogilvy.

 

Here are some pics I took on Tuesday:

 

 

 

[Warszawa]

I've marshalled there the last two days and have taken various low quality pics that i will try to post (if i only knew how). I got told to move by Badds!

It's almost sad watching Greg Norman hit slices onto the adjacent fairway. Nathan Green's -5 on Thursday was one of the best rounds I've ever witnessed. The wind and rain was atrocious.

[br61]

Nice pictures and thanks for sharing them.

 

I emailed TGC asking for the reason of not airing Australian Open since I enjoyed watching it. I commented that there was lot of viewers wondering about the non-airing. I got this answer.

 

 

Thank you for your interest in the Golf Channel. We do not have rights

to the air the Australian Open live it is an Australasian Tour event. We

will however replay the 3rd and final rounds January 1st and 2nd 2007 at

1:00pm eastern time.

 

Sincerely,

Programming Department

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