South of Perth are plenty of golf courses, stretching from Kwinana and Rockingham down to Mandurah and Bunbury.

One of the best is Kennedy Bay, a great links course. Also, there is a fine inland course at Mandurah Country Club. Kennedy Bay is near Rockingham, to the south of Perth, and is one of the few true links courses in the area. It is a long course.

There are are plenty of humps and hollows and pot bunkers which can catch any hsots that are not right on line. The greens are good.

Ping revolutionized the golf putter market with its Anser putter some 30 years ago, and since then competitors have tried all sorts of combinations to provide a better putter.

The Ping was a blade putter with a flange behind it to give more weight, and a slot behind the blade. The idea of this slot was that the blade would deflect slightly on impact, but as it curved a little, it would tend to make off-center putts go straighter. It was very successful.

If you want to play golf on one of the oldest courses in the world, you can, and it will not cost you much at all. This is the Old Course at Musselburgh, on the eastern outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland.

It is said that the course was in use in the 16th century, and that both Mary Queen of Scots and King James VI played there. But what we do know is that as long ago as 1788, John Cochran appointed Keeper Surveyor General of the Links, so the course has been in operation for at least 220 years.