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Top-100 Spotlight: The Heritage Golf & Country Club: Henley Course
The first time I played the Henley Course at The Heritage Golf & Country Club, I got lost heading to the 1st tee.
31 Jul 2024
Review: Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club
It seems to be the same old story every summer these days. Bushfires in the south of the country, rain and floods to the north.
5 Jul 2024
Review: Monash Country Club
It is nearly 40 years since I first laid eyes on the beautifully prepared fairways and greens at Monash Country Club, which sits high on a hill overlooking Sydney’s sprawling northern beaches.
4 Jun 2024
Travel: Bushranger Country
Victoria’s High Country and the adjoining Goulburn Valley region are perhaps the least known of the state’s golfing destinations, despite the number of easily accessible and affordable courses on offer.
27 May 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Royal Adelaide is one of Australia's finest courses and has been for nearly 100 years.
6 May 2024
Video Lesson: Hit your flop shots stone dead
You're faced with a tough up and down ... with very little green to work with between a bunker and the flag. What do you do?
19 Apr 2024
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
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