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“From down under to the top of the world.” It is a famous moment in Australian broadcasting, the perfect line delivered by Ian Baker-Finch to describe the magical moment Adam Scott claimed the 2013 US Masters at Augusta. But on a day where Baker-Finch’s exceptional career has come to an end, it is also the ideal sentence to describe the popular Australian being lauded across the world of…

The voice of Australian golfing great Ian Baker-Finch will no longer be heard on TV after the British Open winner confirmed he was retiring from broadcasting. Baker-Finch, 64, has become one of the most revered golfing voices over the past two decades following a highly successful playing career that included hoisting the claret jug in 1991. Last week’s Open Championship was his last time in the…

As another chapter in golf history awaits to be written at this week’s US Open, an Australian major champion has shed light on how achieving the ultimate success can be both a blessing and a curse. Last week, excerpts from Ian Baker-Finch’s newly-released, authorised biography by Geoff Saunders titled ‘Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back’ dived into his infamous 20-over par round of 92 at the 1997…

Ian Baker-Finch’s story was once labelled “the saddest in golf” by the late five-time British Open winning Australian legend Peter Thomson. Now, in a newly-released, authorised biography by Geoff Saunders titled ‘Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back’, the former Open champion has opened up in revealing new detail on what it was like to hit rock bottom at major — just six years on from winning…