COVER STORY
AUSTRALIA’S
25 BEST PUBLIC ACCESS COURSES
Australia is blessed with some fantastic public access courses.
With several newcomers making the grade this year, which layouts,
that all golfers can play, will be judged the best in the nation
this year?
FEATURES
MFS WOMEN’S
AUSTRALIAN OPEN PREVIEW: BACK FROM THE BRINK
Laura Davies is returning to defend her Open title but, as Brendan
James reveals, she has emerged from a form slump that threatened
to end her career a year ago.
ANZ LADIES MASTERS
PREVIEW: KARRIE’S QUEST
Karrie Webb was once the undisputed Queen of women’s golf.
Now she wants to be World No.1 again and, as Brendan James reports,
her journey back should begin successfully at Royal Pines.
JACOB’S
CREEK OPEN PREVIEW: SHOOTING STARS & STRIPES
A good fi nish in this can kickstart a lucrative career on the
PGA Tour for some rising Aussie stars, writes Brendan James.
2006 HOLDEN
SCRAMBLE REVIEW: GOLDEN SCRAMBLE
Good fortune, in more ways than one, helped the Gold Coast Country
Club win its fi rst Holden Scramble National Final.
EQUIPMENT
TECH TALK: GOLF
BALLS
When should you sacrifi ce feel for distance?
CLUB ROAD TEST
TaylorMade r7 Draw irons.
Read the review
here
TRAVEL / COURSES
MAGENTA SHORES
As Brendan James discovered, the Ross Watson-designed links layout
on NSW’s Central Coast certainly lives up to the hype generated
since its opening last year.
Read the
review here
AUSTRALIAN CLUB
OF THE MONTH
Belmont Golf Club, south of Newcastle in NSW, has hosted some
of the world’s best amateurs for decades as the venue for
the Lake Macquarie Amateur. Another crop of elite male and female
amateurs will tackle the course again from January 18.
INSTRUCTION
CHUMP TO CHAMP
Golf Australia continues its quest to transform a less than average
hacker into a player who is good enough to win his grade championship
at the end of 2007.
Read the
review here
THE BEST PGA LESSONS
DAVID MILNE
Joondalup CC Resort, WA Make practice putts count.
KURT STEGBAUER
Sutherland Shire Golf Academy, NSW Imagine the hole is as big
as a bucket.
MARK PATERSON
Avondale GC, NSW Get your pivot right.
WAYNE KESBY
Windsor CC,NSW Career shots are for career players.
PATRICK MAHER
Royal Canberra GC, ACT Keep your head up for swing freedom.
ROB RICHARDS
Warringah GC, NSW Become a chipping control freak.
SAM WIGAN
Camden Valley Resort, NSW Putting a fi nger on casting .
CENTREFOLD POSTER
TIP: KARRIE WEBB
We look at the women’s World No.3 and how she extends through
the impact zone.
TIP FROM THE
TOUR
Golf Australia contributing pro Anna Rawson explains how keeping
your body still will help you make more putts.
HOW STEVEN BOWDITCH
BOMBS IT
Golf Australia’s resident therapist, The Swing Doctor, reveals
Steven Bowditch’s key power moves you should copy.
REGULARS
TEEING OFF: BRENDAN
JAMES
AROUND THE TRAPS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
INSIDE THE ROPES: MIKE CLAYTON
RULES FORUM: ANDREW LANGFORD-JONES
GOLF GETAWAYS
RESULTS & WORLD RANKINGS
WINNER’S CIRCLE: NATHAN GREEN
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