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Video Lesson: Hear the swoosh past the ball
A good player does not hit at the ball or even think of hitting it. They swing the club from the top of their back-swing to the top of their follow-through via a plane where the ball happens to be. The ball is effectively in the way of their clubhead. Striking the ball on the way through is a by-product of their golf swing, says Tom Linskey of Australian Golf Schools.
16 Jul 2025
Huggan: Is McIlroy the best European golfer of all time?
Greetings from sunny Scotland. Which is my way of justifying – or at least explaining what follows – a shameless descent into what might be termed “parochialism”.
16 Jul 2025
Column: Rory will grab the headlines but Portrush will steal the show
Rory McIlroy arrives at Royal Portrush as the reigning Masters champion and Northern Ireland’s favourite son.
16 Jul 2025
Playing With...TaylorMade Qi35 Driver
TaylorMade’s Qi35 driver arrived with bold claims of improved consistency and forgiveness. Backed by cutting-edge tech and early praise, it promised performance gains across the board. Here’s how it measured up.
16 Jul 2025
Cleary: LIV Golf not to blame for Smith's missed major cuts
With each missed cut in a major, with each mid-field finish in LIV, with each statistical illustration of how far this once-mighty golfer has fallen, the whispers have become murmurs have become outright assertions. And, today, the full-blown Accepted Group Think is that Cam Smith's golf game is cooked because he went to LIV Golf. Matt Cleary requests that you allow him to retort.
15 Jul 2025
The Open Preview: Back Again
Royal Portrush will provide a stirring conclusion to a tumultuous major season.
15 Jul 2025
Tee off for a great cause at the Men for Menopause Golf Day
Join Cam and Ali Daddo and the teams from Aviiana, Prevention magazine, and Golf Australia magazine for the very first Men for Menopause Golf Day: a one-of-a-kind event where golf meets conversation, connection and support for the women we love.
15 Jul 2025
Column: Back-to-Back and Better Than Ever
Australia’s Grace Kim produced the most astonishing comeback in recent memory to win the Amundi Evian Championship, making it two majors in a row for the golden Aussies.
14 Jul 2025
Cleary: The hunt for golf's Ash Barty
Minjee Lee won her third major championship in June, the news making a ripple in the sports pages of our mainstream press before being quickly subsumed by the money-makers of our national sports consciousness. Some will blame the media, some will blame misogyny, some will blame the weight of history. Matt Cleary argues that women's golf needs a champion who champions women's golf.
9 Jul 2025
Course Review: Cape Kidnappers
The legend of how Cape Kidnappers came to be Cape Kidnappers is a tale of crossed wires.
9 Jul 2025
Column: Spread the Scottish Open’s wings once again
The Genesis Scottish Open is on the horizon later this week and has become synonymous with the new Renaissance Club. In all fairness, the last two years have delivered drama.
7 Jul 2025
Luxury, Precision and Golf: The Lexus Ultimate Sandbelt Experience
Picture this: three days of world-class golf on Australia’s most prestigious courses, a stay at an iconic luxury hotel, and exquisite dining at an award-winning restaurant. Now, add to that an exclusive group of Lexus Encore members, custom-fitted golf gear and a competition format designed to thrill. This was the Lexus Ultimate Golf Experience.
3 Jul 2025
Golf Improvement Tour of Glorious Vietnam
Seven nights, five rounds and luxury accommodation on Vietnam's spectacular Golf Coast - AND you'll come back a better player. What's not to like? We can't think of a single thing.
1 Jul 2025
Top-100 Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
Brian Slawnik and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design have long been unabashed fans of the Sandbelt, and of Commonwealth Golf Club in particular. When asked to redesign the course, the first thing Slawnik told members was that it’s already great and that RGD would approach the work as preservationists. What Slawnik, RGD and Commonwealth greens staff did since has reimagined and reinvigorated one of Australia’s great courses.
18 Jun 2025
Cleary: Crime and punishment the USGA way, but it limits the U.S Open
Once a year in their U.S Open, the United States Golf Association attempts to find the greatest exponent of driving straight, hacking out from long grass for luck and making knee-trembling pars. Their tourney. Their style. Viva la difference. But it makes for a limited and overly-penal style of golf, even if it is the intention, and even if it produced a wild and compelling Sunday, opines Matt Cleary.
16 Jun 2025
Course Review: Meadow Springs
Just an hour south of Perth, Meadow Springs Golf and Country Club offers an unforgettable golfing experience; its natural beauty, strategic design and welcoming atmosphere making it a must-play destination. Words and photography by Joel Innes.
13 Jun 2025
Feature Story: Oakmont Unleashed
The U.S Open returns to Oakmont Country Club for a record 10th time in the history of the championship, a venue the USGA clearly holds in high regard, with the belief it perfectly suits its premier event. Writer Garrett Johnston asked several players about the test Oakmont presents, how it is likely to play and what type of player will it favour.
12 Jun 2025
Ogilvy: U.S Open's toughness means testing limits
It has forever been the most controversial of the four major championships. Especially when the topic of conversation is course set-up.
12 Jun 2025
Column: The Hard Way Pays
Players breaking through in their 30s used to be as common as rain in spring.
12 Jun 2025
The Aussie invaders at Oakmont: we profile our half-dozen chances
Our man Paul Prendergast profiles the chances of the six Australians who will tee it up at Oakmont in this 125th U.S Open.
11 Jun 2025
Cleary: A LIV player can win the U.S Open, Brandel's off his head
With nine holes to play in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, there was an old-fashioned two-horse war. It was like Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star at Moonee Valley in the 1986 W.S Cox Plate. Two mighty thoroughbreds, straining, fighting, charging home for the win. It was quite exciting.
11 Jun 2025
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