The Mole just took a look at the leaderboard at the Buick Open and the top 10 names on the leaderboard consist of only Americans and Australians.

Then, if you look further down the board, you will find Korean Y.E. Yang and “South African” Rory Sabatini. Once you get to T51 you will another Korean and an Englishman by the names of Charlie Wi and Greg Owen.

So what’s going on? How can only five players in the weekend field be from countries other than America or Australia? Is this just a freak week? Obviously, it is the Americans’ own Tour so one would hope that the majority of players on the leaderboard would be Americans, but that doesn’t explain the frightening number of Aussies.

What concerns the Mole more is how Australians are producing so many good professional golfers. Is their amateur structure really that good and if so, what are we doing to copy it? Or is their professional Tour (which happens at the pretty much the same time of the year as the Sunshine Tour here) that much better? What are your thoughts?