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Vines soon returned down under to play on the Australian circuit.
He recorded an astonishing performance at the Tasmanian Open in February 1968, winning the tournament by 17 strokes.
It was later noted by an Australian journalist that his performance stood "as the biggest victory margin in a tournament in the world."
The experience in Tasmania was personally important to Vines as well, as he had his honeymoon with his newlywed wife Robin while on the island.
She served as his caddie during the tournament.
Following the victory, Vines moved on to the Asian circuit.
He quickly won a tournament in March, the Thailand Open.
Vines thought he blew his chances with a final round 75 (+3) but leader Haruo Yasuda made double-bogey on the last giving Vines a one-stroke win.
Vines won again the very next week at the Hong Kong Open.
The victory moved him into third place on the Asian circuit's Order of Merit.
Later in the year, defending his 1967 title, Vines finished runner-up in the Swiss Open to Italy's Roberto Bernardini.
After all of this success, Vines had a lengthy dry spell.
He did not record many top finishes and went three years without a victory.
This period ended at the 1972 Australian PGA Championship.
Vines outplayed playing partner Bill Dunk over the course of the final round to beat his own expectations and win by two shots.
"It's the best golf I've played my entire life," he said.
Vines' good play continued in 1973–74 season.
At the very beginning of the season, in September, he finished runner-up at the West End Tournament, nearly overcoming overnight leader David Galloway.
Shortly afterwards, he won an event in his home state, the Queensland PGA Championship.
Soon afterwards, he played in the Australian PGA Championship.
Like the previous year, he again played excellently at the event, now contested as a match play event.
Vines won his first five matches and played Stewart Ginn in the final.
The match was neck and neck until Ginn made mistakes on the 16th and 17th ensuring Vines' victory.
Vines shot −25 for the event.
"I feel like I've won six tournaments," he stated at the end of the event.
"Every match was a hard one."
He also won the Cairns Open at the very end of the calendar year.
This excellent play helped him qualify for the World Cup at the end of the year.
Like his sudden regression of play after the 1967–68 season, however, Vines would not maintain this level of success.
He won a minor 54-hole tournament in 1975 but otherwise did not record any top finishes for multiple years.
Late in the 1975–76 season, however, he began to turn it around.
He recorded a number of top tens, including a runner-up finish at the Forbes tournament, before playing excellently at the Queanbeyan City Open in March.
After an opening round 71 (+1), Vines shot an extraordinary second round of 62 which included a 28 (−7) on the back nine.
After a prosaic 34 (−1) on the front nine, Vines' performance immediately improved on the back.
He chipped in for eagle on the 10th and then holed out from the fairway two holes later for another eagle.
This was followed by three straight birdies.
If it weren't for near misses on the 16th and 17th holes he could have shot 26.
Nonetheless, Vines was very happy after the round stating it was the best nine holes of his career.
It was the first time he had broken 30 and "gave him almost as big a thrill as his 1968 Tasmanian Open victory by 17 shots."
Despite this excellent play he was still one behind pro Mark Tapper and remained one behind him entering the final round.
Tapper, however, played poorly the entire round, presaged by a bogey on the opening hole.
Vines took advantage of his poor play.
Though he drove the ball extremely erratically, Vines hit extraordinary approaches from the rough or behind trees and even the wrong fairway.
This enabled him to make a number of extraordinary birdies and he ultimately cruised to a four shot win.
Later in the season, he won the Queensland PGA Championship for the second time.
Vines won the Griffith Golf Classic two year later, but had few other highlights for the remainder of his career on the regular tours.
He stated later in life that he "went cold" during this period and lost confidence.
As a senior, however, Vines had some success.
Vines turned 50 in the middle of 1995 and quickly started playing on the European Seniors Tour.
He had immediate success, recording a runner-up finish at his fifth event and finished 25th on the Order of Merit, despite playing a truncated season.
The following year, his first full year on the senior tour, he continued with this success, recording three top tens including a runner-up finish at the Motor City Seniors Classic.
He finished 16th on the Order of Merit, his career best.
The following season he recorded two more top tens but finished much further down the Order of Merit.
He maintained at least part-time status on the European Seniors Tour for three more seasons but with little success.
Several years after he stopped playing the senior tour he won the New Zealand Senior PGA Championship.
He later described this as the highlight of his senior career.
In 2015 he was bestowed Life Membership in the Australian PGA.
"Note: Vines only played in the Open Championship"
CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1972 Open Championship)<br>
"T" = tied
Ian Seib
Ian Martin Seib (born 15 September 1946) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland from 1969 to 1975.
Ian Seib was a solid opening batsman whose only century in 63 first-class innings was 101, the highest score in the match, when Queensland defeated Western Australia in the Sheffield Shield in 1973-74.
He won the man of the match award in his first List A match when he scored 64 not out off 146 balls to steer Queensland to victory over New South Wales in 1970-71.
His son Rod is a rugby union coach and a former rugby player for Queensland.
Xu Qing (engineer)
Xu Qing (; born October 1960) is a Chinese engineer currently serving as a chief technologist at China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
Xu was born in Wuhan, Hubei, in October 1960.
After graduating from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1982, he was assigned to the 701 Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
Testimony (Veep)
"Testimony" is the ninth episode of the fourth season of "Veep" and the 37th episode overall.
The episode was written by Sean Gray and Will Smith, and directed by Armando Iannucci.
It first aired on June 7, 2015.
The plot of this bottle episode follows President Meyer's staff undergoing hearings administered by the House Judiciary Committee regarding her campaign's federal data breach (from third episode of the season, "Data").
They also must testify about allegations that Selina lobbied to kill her own bill, Families First (from the previous episode "B/ill").
She and her staffers scapegoat campaign consultant Bill Ericsson as the mastermind behind the data breach.
Iannucci received a nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode.
The episode opens on President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) giving a press conference in which she denies that she lobbied against her Families First bill.
Several of Selina's associates are shown being sworn in at House Judiciary Committee hearings: ex-staffers, Amy (Anna Chlumsky) and Dan (Reid Scott), are together with White House Aide Jonah (Timothy Simons); Sue (Sufe Bradshaw), her secretary, is alone; Ben (Kevin Dunn), her chief of staff, is alone; and her daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland) is in a private deposition.
Ben vehemently denies any intent to kill the bill.
Amy and Dan state they were consultants hired to lobby people to vote against the bill.
Leigh Patterson (Jessie Ennis), a former White House aide, testifies that she was fired to conceal that someone used a confidential data breach to target bereaved parents for President Meyer's campaign.
She states that only President Meyer's campaign consultant, Bill Ericsson (Deidrich Bader), and bag man Gary Walsh (Tony Hale), knew about the data breach while the President did not.
Ericsson and Kent (Gary Cole), Selina's campaign manager, appear together before the committee.
Ericsson becomes visibly agitated when the committee members state that his name has consistently been brought up.
Kent acknowledges that Leigh was fired because she was scapegoated.
Gary anxiously testifies in front of the committee.
Selina, alone in a deposition, denies any knowledge of the campaign data breach.
Gary denies having any contact with lobbyists, except occasionally because of Catherine's fiancé, Jason.
Meanwhile, Selina refers to Jason as a consultant, and the interviewers correct her, noting that he is a lobbyist.
Selina lies and states that she thinks that Catherine has split up with Jason.
Sue sits before the committee and denies that Selina had a meeting with Congressman Pierce, who cast the vote that killed the bill.
When asked about voice memos, she states that the Press Secretary, Mike McLintock (Matt Walsh), is responsible for them.
Mike is sworn into the committee hearing.
The Committee members note a witness saw him with Dan, Amy, and Congressman Pierce in the parking lot.
Mike states the meeting was by chance.
Selina returns to her deposition and states that Catherine has confirmed she broke up with Jason.
In Ben's hearing, they play an incriminating voice memo where Selina asks about Dan and Amy.
Ben denies it is related to Families First.
Now in a deposition, Gary admits he asked Dan and Amy to lobby against Families First and states that Bill Ericsson paid them for the job.