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Review: Cobram Barooga Golf Club
The founding members of Cobram Golf Club could never have envisioned their humble nine-hole sand scrape course would one day expand to become a massive rolling 36-hole complex.
15 Apr 2024
Video lesson: Maximise your driving power with a pitch
Have you ever considered that driving a golf ball off the tee is similar to throwing a ball?
26 Mar 2024
Video lesson: The key to perfect alignment
Proper alignment is vital for a good golf swing.
26 Mar 2024
Video lesson: Keep the 'golfer's gateway' open for a better swing
If you are fighting inconsistent ball-striking, where one good shot is followed by three or four bad ones, there is every chance you are closing your golfer’s gateway and restricting a good backswing as a result.
14 Mar 2024
Ranking: The ‘Nearly’ Courses for 2024
The ranking of Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2024 was recently published in Golf Australia Magazine.
7 Mar 2024
Review: Red Rocks Golf Course
Phillip Island is about two hours’ drive south of Melbourne and is internationally famous for two things – its motor racing circuit and the daily march of penguins that waddle ashore at sunset.
20 Feb 2024
Review: Moonah Links
A tick over 25 years ago, five-time Open Champion and prolific course designer Peter Thomson stood on a sand dune overlooking a vast area of grazing land on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. He liked what he saw. He would later proclaim the site as the “some of the finest golfing land to be found in Australia.”
15 Feb 2024
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2024
Ranking golf courses, not unlike critiquing movies or restaurants, is far from being an exact science.
24 Jan 2024
Course Review: Carrington Estate
The seaside location of the Carrington Estate had me fully expecting to find a links style course.
24 Jan 2024
Gale makes ace to snatch Sandbelt Invitational win
For 65 holes of the 2023 Sandbelt Invitational, Sydney pro Daniel Gale led or shared the lead in the tournament. He started the final round four strokes clear of his nearest pursuer and was in complete control.
14 Dec 2023
Beauties of the Bellarine
The Bellarine Peninsula was a very different place to play golf when I first visited there in 1998.
14 Dec 2023
Weather & bogeys can’t stop Gale’s Sandbelt Invitational march
Journeyman pro Daniel Gale endured two weather delays and two late bogeys in his round to remain a four-shot leader heading into the final day of the Sandbelt Invitational in Melbourne.
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
Gale storms to four-stroke lead at Sandbelt Invitational
Sydney’s Daniel Gale has fired a course record equalling seven under 64 to open up a four-stroke lead at the Sandbelt Invitational in Melbourne.
12 Dec 2023
Jack & Jaz star at Sandbelt Invitational
Teen amateur star Jazy Roberts and young South Australian pro Jack Thompson have a share of the lead after the opening round of the 2023 Sandbelt Invitational in Melbourne.
11 Dec 2023
Tested: Golfbuddy Voice 2 SE GPS
Light, compact and accurate, the Golfbuddy Voice 2 SE GPS is a great tool to help you with your numbers on the golf course.
29 Nov 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Port Fairy Golf Links
Once upon a time, it was a little-known links on Victoria’s south-west coast. Today, the links at Port Fairy is firmly entrenched among the best 50 courses in the nation.
27 Nov 2023
Holiday at Home: North of the Swan River
The drive north-east from the Perth CBD through to the Swan Valley is one of the nicest journeys you can make in and around the West Australian capital.
22 Nov 2023
Review: Pelican Waters Golf Club
Bevan Henzell had a long-held dream of building a championship golf course on his family property near Golden Beach, just south of Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
15 Nov 2023
The Great Golf Weekend Guide Part II
There’s only one thing better than the weekend and that’s a long weekend... or two. In the second part of this limited series, we recommend more three-day golfing adventures with plenty of highlights on and off the course.
25 Oct 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Flinders Golf Club
It is more than just a little ironic that the oldest golf club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Flinders Golf Club, might also be the region’s most underrated.
18 Oct 2023
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