9-year-old Karl in the 2011 Stuart Appleby Junior Golf’s Signature Tournament

Event: 2011 Stuart Appleby Junior Golf's “Signature Tournament”
Date: 6th January, 2012
Course: “St Johns Course” at The Heritage Golf Club, Melbourne
Course Designer: Jack Nicklaus
Tees played: Mens- 6061 Meters ( 6628 yards)
Par: 72
Score: 81
Result: 1st Place, Boys Under 12 Gross

The Field comprised 140 players from around Australia.
Karl shot 81 on the Par 72 Layout to win the Boys 12 & Under Gross, plus he also won the Nearest-the-pin on the very difficult Par 3 11th into a strong breeze.

Karl's website is www.karlgolf.info

50 thoughts on “9-year-old Karl in the 2011 Stuart Appleby Junior Golf’s Signature Tournament

  1. Shhh, it’s a secret. Just kidding. You’ll see on Karl’s newest videos in
    August 2013 that he’s changed his grip again after going to a Superstroke
    putter grip. Those videos are the 2013 US Kids World Championships videos.
    Cheers

  2. Karl’s Men’s Handicap in Australia is 6.1, with all cards submitted from
    club and junior competition from the Men’s White & Blue Tees. Cheers

  3. The Mens White (Normal) Tees of 6628 yards. The 2012 video lists all the
    yardages, but thanks for asking that, as I’ll put it in this video’s
    “description” too. Some tournaments Karl plays here are from the longer
    Mens Championship Tees (incl the 2012 Spring Valley, 2012 Victorian Junior
    Masters), but because this is the only tourney for the year with the
    younger Under 12 Years, they brought the tees forward to just 6628 yards.
    Cheers

  4. Normally, Karl will put the ball back a little further to generate more
    Draw. However, there’s no reson why he should have the ball quite so far
    back. It’s purely an awareness issue that he needs to deal with by using an
    alignment tool more often. Thanks for pointing that out,

  5. Absolutely. Oddly enough, Karl’s a little embarrassed about doing
    commentary. We will get around to it soon though. Thanks for your input.

  6. @auimpact Thanks for your support for Karl. The shaft and heads is so
    extremely complex. I’ve had to learn it all from trial’and’error, but by
    the time he was 7 I’d gotten it pretty right. There’s not enough space to
    explain it here, but I’ll write an explanation in the Feedback section of
    Karl’s website Karlgolf.info. Give me an hour or so to get that hammered
    out.

  7. @bjsarr The Under 14 & Under 12 age divisions both played from the White
    Tees, which measured around 6000 meters (6600 yards), whereas the u/18 boys
    played from the tournament tees of 6500 meters (7150 yards)

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