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I can't believe that no-one has posted here - Us Aussies are renowned for creative nicknames so lets start with my own:

My last name is Tozer so my nickname is "Sperma" - you should work it out from there

A popular figure on these forums is Martin Ayers who is known as Martinez because it sounds simlar - I think a more appropriate nickname for him would be "Pubic" Ayers.

I know our nicknames can be a bit risque but all in good taste

Aussie Custom Golf wrote:


Most good nicknames have a couple of degrees of seperation. Marty seems to be well known as "Conchita"

I have never really needed a nickname

I've given a bunch of nicknames before, never really had one to stick with me! Two of my regular golf buddies call me Seve! I hit 5 greens one round and shot 76, I got up and down 12 times that day. That will wear on your nerves after a while!

Well.......I have several nicknames.......two of which my wife calls me and I won't share here.
I grew up with the nickname of Trip since I am the third Ben Maffitt. Most of my old friends in my hometown still call me that.
When I first started playing competitive golf in 1964, I went to a number of amateur tournaments with a good friend who was much older. He was 32 and I was 16. When asked who I was, he just referred to me as "Junior" and it stuck. When I go to a lot of golf courses now, people still call me Junior.........even though I'm almost 63.
Back in the 70's and early 80's, I played a lot of golf with a member of our club named Dean Sheetz. Dean was an excellent player and won a number of amateur tournaments around the Carolinas. He later went through tour qualifying and got his card for the Senior Tour, playing in 4 US Senior Opens (making the cut in all of them). Back in the 70's, Dean was extremely long off the tee and he typically "air mailed" most other good players tee shots. So, he picked up the nick name of "Mailman". A few years later, David Strawn (runner up in the 1973 US Amateur) was playing with Dean in a tournament and heard everyone refer to him as Mailman all day long. Somewhere in the round during a lull, David asked Dean, "how long you been working for the Post Office?" Dean just grinned and said "Most of my life".

One of the better players on the Aussie Tour is Lucien Tinkler who is affectionately known as 'Loose Head Sprinkler"

Aussie Custom Golf wrote:

fingerzer

My favorite one on tour was Richard Lee...Mohammed!

I've put these ones in the Nickname Group but will run with them again...

A guy from Sydney came to Darwin to play cricket for our club a few years back....his name was Anthony "Clarke-Bruce". One of the boys knicknamed him "Tony 2 Dads" or "2 Dads" for short...

A guy at our golf club has been questioned over activity that some might call blatant cheating by altering the scorecard with the "magic pencil"...we call him the "Pencillor"...

Anyone watch the English show Minder with Arthur Daly and Terry? If you have you may have seen the episode where they engaged the services of this shonky bloke called Anthony Anthony...they called him "2 Tone"...

A guy called Royce Hart is one of the greatest Aussie Rules Footballers in history...his nickname was "Dufor"...as in Dufhart....

Dean Tipping wrote:


Darwin GC eh? I ended up with the nickname there "bunker rake" A-Rae probably the only one left that would remembers that.

I acquired it on the plane back from the open in Alice in '93, probably 20-30 of us on the flight. I was sitting next to my foursomes mate Woodsy celebrating our win, and he was singing Achy Breaky Heart the whole flight, and kept getting the words mixed up.
Achy Breaky, became Achy Blakey, then Achey breakey bunker rakey and then by the time we hit the ground, the new name was born.