STRICKER CONQUERS METRO
Having successfully hosted the 1998 Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne, there was an air of excitement in Australian golf that more of the world’s best players would come here in the years that followed.
That excitement was justified when the PGATour announced the 2001 World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championships were bound for Melbourne’s Metropolitan Golf Club. Then they revealed the date … January 3 to 7. What were they thinking?
