Between 1993 and 2004, Grant Dodd played on the PGA Tours of Australasia, Europe and Asia, winning the Slovenian Open on the European Challenge Tour in 1999. A writer for Australian Golf Digest since 2003, he is also a member of the Channel Ten golf commentary team.
In 2007 I was invited to commentate in Thailand for The Royal Trophy, a Ryder Cup style event over three days pitting the best Asian...
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It has been a while since the TV cameras waited on the tarmac, with reporters breathlessly counting down the minutes until his plane landed. And...
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Another summer of golf has come and gone in the blink of an eye. The Australasian Tour may not be what it once was in...
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Kyi Hla Han is one of the most personable guys you could meet. As an Asian Tour member in the mid to late 1990's, he...
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“Peter Alliss used to say I hit miracle shots. I never thought that. Miracles don’t happen very often; I was hitting those shots all the...
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When you’re 15,000 km from home, the sound of a familiar Aussie accent tends to snap you to attention. Needless to say, it has an...
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John Lennon’s anthemic song, ‘Nobody Told Me’, is memorably signified by the chorus, ‘Strange days indeed’. Lennon’s take on the world at that time was...
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One of my very first memories of golf was of watching an Australian tournament on TV in the late 1970’s (as a young child, I...
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You’re the club champ, number one in your pennant team, maybe even a state representative. You’re good. You hit the ball a mile, and regularly...
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Bing. There’s an e-mail in the in-box. Quickly, I note that it’s from Lord Fotheringham-Smythe AO, Chairman of iseekgolf. “Better see what his nibs wants.”...
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One of the world’s leading golf coaches was asked recently by one of his charges (a player in the top 75 players in the world)...
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I know people who love the Academy Award winning movie, “The English Patient”. I know others who think it is the greatest celluloid travesty they...
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If you are a stock market observer at present then you will likely be either intrigued or extremely nervous. The latter condition applies to those...
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John Crampton must have felt like Osama bin Laden in front of the United States congress. Addressing a group of reluctant, somewhat hostile, NSW State...
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Something profound happened to me recently. I was at customs in Brisbane Airport, writing down my birth date on the immigration form, and the page...
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It was the best of times, the worst of times, wrote Charles Dickens. His ageless assessment of the human condition might well be applied to...
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Hands up if you understand what the FedEx Cup is all about. Keep your hand up if you care to find out. Unfortunately for the...
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“This is British Open?” It was a deceptively simple question, in effect rhetorical, and more a statement than anything requiring a response. It didn’t matter...
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The only thing more predictable than an Australian athlete denying the veracity of a positive drug test is the ferocity with which the Australian public...
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There is an ad floating around on the internet at the moment featuring US Ryder Cup star Chad Campbell. In it, he says, “When I...
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