“I don’t practice enough now,” says Grady, who played in Hong Kong on the invitation of his friend Dominique Boulet, the event organizer and a two-time HKPGA champion. “But I really enjoyed the week. I hadn’t played in the heat for more than six months so it a bit of a shock, but [the North Course at] Kau Sai Chau has some world-class holes – particularly the par-threes – and the course was in great shape. And yet again I had another second place,” he laughs.
Rather than playing, Grady spends more of his time now as a television commentator – both in his native Australia and the United Kingdom, where he works for the BBC alongside Peter Allis during The Open and has been lauded for his no-nonsense approach behind the microphone. “Nothing compares to the week of The Open, we have a great bunch of guys there,” says Grady, who also notched a world cup win with countryman Peter Fowler in Spain in 1989. “Peter Allis is just an awesome commentator – so much fun to work with. And who’d have thought that Ken Brown, who was a bit of a rebel and tearaway when he was a player, would take to it so well. He’s great too.”
