Seven to make waves this summer | Inside Golf. Australia’s Most-Read Golf Magazine as named by Australian Golfers

PROFESSIONAL golf, like surfing, is about momentum.

When you’re sitting in the line-up, you spot an opportunity and it’s your time to take off, how you maximise the wave that sweeps through determines success or failure.

It’s when preparation meets opportunity; when instinct and training meld effortlessly and you ride that momentum for as long as you can.

When Victorian David Micheluzzi birdied three of his final four holes at the WA PGA Championship in the desert of Kalgoorlie last October, it set off a chain of events that has since taken him around the world.

Subsequent wins at TPS Sydney and the NSW Open didn’t just earn Micheluzzi the PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit crown, it opened doors to a PGA Tour debut and major championship appearances at both the US PGA Championship and Open Championship at Royal Liverpool.

It was a summer slam not seen for…