Essays

Steve Perkin, the son of the legendary Age editor Graham, asked me at a tournament at Royal Melbourne in 1990 to write a column on the events of the week. I scribbled out 700 words, faxed it to the office and it started a sideline that has become much more because it’s given me a voice. Sadly the paper of the two Perkins and Peter Thomson no longer has a full-time golf writer and it doesn’t seem right for the city of Royal Melbourne and the sandbelt not to have someone dedicated to reporting the game.

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I’m fortunate to still have a place to write and my opinion pieces are found on Golf Australia’s website and Golf Australia magazine.

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My latest book, Preferred Lies, is a series of essays with Charlie Happell (himself a former Age golf writer) and a number of other contributors including John Huggan, Rob Sitch, Steve Williams, the late Peter Thomson and his Japanese-based son Andrew.

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Speaking of voices, you can listen to State of the Game, a podcast I started in 2012 with Rod Morri and Geoff Shackelford and Inside the Ropes at Golf Australia.