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RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2021
Our biennial ranking of the Top-100 Public Access Courses in the nation is here. With international travel off the table for the foreseeable future, here is a feast of fine courses everyone can play … right here at home.
27 Jan 2021
Leishman buoyant about Torrey Pines title defence
Marc Leishman wasn’t panicking. But he readily admits his poor form after the PGA Tour returned from COVID-19 shutdown in 2020 was more than a concern, it was “frustrating and annoying.”
27 Jan 2021
Clayton, DeVries & Pont to design Tassie beach course
It has been nearly a decade in the making, but the much-anticipated Seven Mile Beach project in Hobart is one step closer to becoming a course with the appointment of a world class design team.
25 Jan 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Mollymook Golf Club
Having weathered bushfire and COVID-19 crises, Mollymook Golf Club is ready to put 2020 in the rear-vision mirror and greet the New Year as one of the best public access courses in the nation.
19 Jan 2021
Review: Hamilton Island Golf Club
An island that was once home to little more than “two goats and a lighthouse”, is today the spectacular setting for one of Australia’s best golf courses.
11 Jan 2021
Join A Club: Sun City Country Club
Sun City Country Club is one of Western Australia’s premier layouts, being one of only ten to grab a place in Golf Australia’s most recent ranking of the Top-100 Courses in the nation.
7 Jan 2021
Join A Club: Curlewis Golf Club
Curlewis Golf Club is one of Australia’s most improved courses of the past decade, with its success coming on the back of years of “just getting by”.
18 Dec 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: Cranbourne GC
Melbourne’s South East is home to the world famous Sandbelt courses. Travel a bit further and you will find some lesser known, but highly-rated gems, like Cranbourne Golf Club.
18 Dec 2020
100 Fun Aussie Courses to Play for $50 or Less
More Australians are playing golf today than at any other time in the past 20 years. But the economic reality, as we emerge from the darkest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is many of us now need to make our hard-earned dollars stretch a little further. Here, we reveal the 18-hole layouts – and some standout nine-holers – offering Australian golfers the greatest value for money golfing experiences.
16 Dec 2020
Australia’s 100 Best Par-5s
On the world’s professional Tours, par-5s aren’t what they used to be. In fact, many are turned into par-4s for tournament play. For the rest of us, they represent lengthy journeys but a good opportunity to improve our score with perhaps a couple of lusty blows and a deft pitch.
8 Dec 2020
Join A Club: Club Mandalay
Club Mandalay’s Peter Thomson-designed course has risen across a range of golf course rankings since its inception.
7 Dec 2020
Review: The Lakes Golf Club
This iconic Sydney course has a rich history dating back 92 years – but it is only in recent times that its fame and reputation has soared as a big tournament venue and a wonderful place to play.
2 Dec 2020
Join A Club: Loxton Golf Club
Loxton Golf Club is a superb South Australian Riverland golf course, located eight kilometres from the town, where there is a relaxed, social atmosphere that is perfect for enthusiastic golfers.
23 Nov 2020
Australia's 100 Best Long Par-4s
The best long two-shotters test a player’s ability to execute a pair of classy long shots. At the same time, they show off interesting strategies most often built around a green benefiting a shot played from a particular part of the fairway.
17 Nov 2020
Gen Z: Meet the major winners of the next decade
The stars of the next decade are fast approaching and soon they will be grabbing the headlines at major championship time ahead of today’s household names. Who are they?
6 Nov 2020
Home-Grown Holiday: Discovering the Illawarra
The great natural beauty of New South Wales’ Illawarra region forms the scenic backdrop to some quality golf courses, which are all accessible to the travelling golfer, making it the ideal destination for a home-grown holiday.
6 Nov 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: St Andrews Beach
It began as a concept for a private member-only golf course in the heart of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, but a significant chain of events has seen it evolve into one of the best public access layouts in the nation.
2 Nov 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
A century after being established, one of the Melbourne Sandbelt’s finest layouts is looking to tweak its design to better reflect its origins.
27 Oct 2020
Review: Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club
Despite being already well-established among the nation’s Top-100 Courses, the team at Magenta Shores is continually striving to improve its acclaimed layout and climb even higher in the rankings.
26 Oct 2020
Finau returns positive COVID-19 test
World No.16 Tony Finau has returned a positive test for COVID-19, the PGA Tour announced earlier today.
7 Oct 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: Lakelands Golf Club
Jack Nicklaus’ first ‘signature’ course design in Australia is fast approaching its 25th anniversary and remains steadfastly ranked among the Top-100 Courses in the nation and a ‘must play’ for golfing visitors to the Gold Coast.
7 Oct 2020
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