Peter Senior, 65, shoots 63 at Sanctuary Cove Palms. Is he getting higher with age?
By Peter Owen
THEY say golfers start to lose their capacity as soon as they attain the age of fifty. Strive telling that to Peter Senior, one of many few golfers to have received skilled occasions on the lads’s tour in 5 separate many years.
Senior, who continues to be contending most weeks on the Legends Tour, is the one man to have received Australia’s huge three summer season tournaments – the Australian Open, the Australian PGA and the Australian Masters – after turning 50.
And he’s nonetheless creating information.
Senior, who will flip 65 in late July, shot seven-under 63 on the Palms course at Sanctuary Cove in a members’ competitors in January, together with a again 9 of six-under 30.
It was the primary time he’d damaged his age – returned a rating lower than the variety of years he’s lived.
Enjoying off a handicap of plus 3, Senior’s rating equated to 40 stableford factors – ok for second place within the A grade competitors.
His outstanding spherical got here only a month after one other Queensland marvel, Terry Value, shot an exceptional 61 at Headland, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
To not be outdone, Terry Value shoots 61 at Headland.
Enjoying within the season-ending Legends Tour Championship, Value’s rating was eight underneath par and was the primary time the 62-year-old had damaged his age.
Rounds like these recorded by Senior and Value are uncommon at any time – however particularly so for golfers aged over 60.
They draw comparisons with Joe Kirkwood, the legendary Australian professional who was our first worldwide famous person and famously shot 10-under 60 on the age of 62, and Fred {Couples}, who shocked the world in 2022 when he had a spherical of 60 on the age of 63.
