Larger Than Life – Australian Golf Digest

The lives and careers of two very different but much-loved characters in Australian golf ended just days apart during the last days of winter.

In little more than a few days in late August, Australian golf lost two wonderful contributors in Glenn Joyner [above image] and Frank Williams [below image].

Hailing from South Australia, Joyner was a regular contender among the giants of the game in the late 1980s and 1990s. In more recent years he was a prolific winner on home soil on the PGA Legends Tour and topped qualifying for the 2022 Senior Open at Gleneagles in Scotland. Just weeks later he would be diagnosed with Stage 4 bowel cancer and ultimately lost his spirited fight inside a year, passing on August 26 just a week shy of his 59th birthday.

When we profiled Joyner in the January issue this year, he…