NICK O’Hern, who won the 2006 Australian PGA Championship at the nearby Hyatt Regency golf course at Coolum, will make a rare appearance at Gympie in September to help celebrate Gympie Golf Club’s centenary.
O’Hern, famously the only man to have twice beaten Tiger Woods in the World Matchplay Championship, will be the guest speaker at the club’s centenary dinner dance on Saturday, September 26, at the Gympie Showgrounds.
The Western Australia leftie, who won the Australasian Tour’s Order of Merit back in 2006, became one of the world’s most consistent players, reaching a high of 16 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
He twice represented the International team in the Presidents Cup and won five tournaments in Australia.
Nick O’Hern, pictured playing with Elvis Smiley at last year’s BMW Golf Cup on the Gold Coast.
These days he lives in Melbourne, where he is a coach, TV commentator, author, keynote speaker and co-host of the popular golf podcast, Talk Birdie To Me.
The Gympie Golf Club officially began on September 30, 1926, when school teacher Harry Griffiths called a meeting to establish the club. Within a few months, golfers were playing on a nine-hole course carved out of the bush and spanning what is now the Bruce Highway.
The club has scheduled a year-long calendar of events and functions, including an 18-hole Centenary Championship, featuring the lowest handicapped 88 amateurs who enter, on Sunday, September 6.
First prize will be $1350, there is a $10,000 hole-in-one prize on offer, and a party hole will be set up on the par-three 17th hole.
Ian Baker-Finch, who spent the first two years of his traineeship in the Gympie pro shop, will congratulate the club through a video, which will be played at the centenary dinner.
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