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Review: Links Lady Bay
One of golf’s most appealing attributes is the unpredictable nature of the game.
16 Oct 2024
The evolution (and future) of Australian golf
The most significant thing to happen to Australian golf was not Adam Scott winning The Masters. Nor was it Peter Thomson winning five Opens in Britain or Greg Norman carrying the Australian Tour in the 1980s and 1990s.
13 Dec 2023
Review: Titirangi Golf Club
The 1920s was a golden age for golf course construction in Australia thanks, in no small part, to the creativity and genius of legendary designer Dr Alister MacKenzie.
13 Dec 2023
Morri: A tied result ticks plenty of boxes
For all the chatter about the tied match at the Solheim Cup it is perhaps a man who has been dead for almost 100 years that has the most insight to offer.
25 Sep 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: New South Wales GC
There are only a few courses scattered across the globe that can rival New South Wales for presenting such an array of fascinating and spectacularly natural seaside holes.
19 Oct 2022
Clayton: The brilliance of the Old Course
Peter Thomson long argued The Old Course at St. Andrews was the game’s most important course and all others are mere copies.
12 Jul 2022
Huggan: The Masters is far from perfect, but the golf always wins
More than three decades have passed since my first visit to Augusta National Golf Club. The first of Nick Faldo’s three victories in 1989 was my maiden Masters. And yes, I was excited.
5 Apr 2022
CLAYTON: A Question of Strategy
Great golf holes afford players of all standards the opportunity to test their skills against the questions being asked by the design. How you answer those questions isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach.
27 Apr 2021
The Preview: Adidas Junior 6s Tour – Yarra Yarra
The Adidas Junior 6s Tour heads to Victoria for the first time ever, and marks the first tournament held at the renovated Yarra Yarra Golf Club. Here is all you need to know about Monday’s event, including exciting players to keep an eye on.
14 Apr 2021
The Preview: Masters Tournament
The Masters returns to Augusta National just five months after Dustin Johnson broke the tournament record score to defeat Cameron Smith and Sungjae Im by five shots. Can he become just the fourth player to win back-to-back titles in the event’s 87-year history? Who stands in his way?
6 Apr 2021
CLAYTON: How Augusta could be better
Augusta National is the course on every golfer’s bucket list. But it’s evolution away from the original creation of Alister MacKenzie and Bob Jones has been to its detriment. Here’s how the home of the Masters could be an even better course.
6 Apr 2021
Inside Golf Australia April 2021
One of the silver linings about last year’s coronavirus-delayed visit to Augusta is that we’re able to enjoy the Masters Tournament again just five months later.
18 Mar 2021
Inside Royal Queensland
As Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centennial year drew to a close in 2020, one of the men who masterminded its rebirth 14 years ago offered some insights into the layout and addressed some misconceptions about the design.
18 Jan 2021
Sweet 16?
Tiger Woods surprised many by claiming his 15th major title at Augusta National in 2019. Having held onto the Green Jacket for an extra seven months due to COVID-19 the question is now: Can he defend his title and get within two of Jack Nicklaus’ major record and equal the Golden Bear’s six Masters titles?
10 Nov 2020
Course Design: Beyond COVID
From the golf courses played on the game’s biggest pro Tours to interesting short courses and the public layouts in our biggest urban centres, the architectural quality of those layouts in a post-COVID golfing world will be important for the game and the environment.
7 Oct 2020
Review: The Brisbane Golf Club
The oldest club in the Queensland capital has managed to embrace its significant and historic roots while also not shying away from change and continual improvement.
6 Oct 2020
WATCH: Five of the best Ryder Cups
Ninety-one years ago today, Great Britain lifted its first-ever Ryder Cup after defeating the United States 7-5 at Moortown Golf Club in Leeds.
27 Apr 2020
Morri: No golf reinforces Masters evolution
It’s difficult to know just what to make of the Masters. Every year reverence for the event seems to get more overblown yet somehow, most years, it delivers in terms of golf.
14 Apr 2020
Q&A: What’s it like to play Augusta National
Playing Augusta National is top of most golfers’ bucket list. Here, Editor Brendan James, answers questions on what that experience is like having done so on the Monday after the 2014 Masters, via the tournament’s media ballot.
6 Apr 2020
Exclusive interview with trick-shot queen Tania Tare
Tania Tare is one of the world's most recognisable trick-shot artists and has amassed over 300,000 followers across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Here, the New Zealander discusses her process, her injuries, the state of the women's game and her aspirations to join the LPGA Tour.
26 Mar 2020
The Preview: Women’s Australian Open
The Women’s Australian Open returns this week to Royal Adelaide Golf Club, where American Nelly Korda will defend the prestigious Patricia Bridges Bowl. Can an Aussie claim the title for the first time in six years?
12 Feb 2020
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