19 Holes With... Clint Rice

19 Holes With... Clint Rice

In a professional golf career that's spanned 22 years, Clint Rice followed in the footsteps of Mat Goggin, shared a dressing room with Greg Norman, and road-tested Barnbougle when it was a donger and a dream. Today he's known by a whole other strata of society as an “intruder” on a TV show about getting married without having met one's wife. All of which makes him good fodder for our "19 Holes With" treatment, and fine company for golf and a bottle of pinot noir, according to Deputy Editor, Matt Cleary. 15 Oct 2025
Cleary: Tiger can heal and play and win again. You want to tell him he can't?

Cleary: Tiger can heal and play and win again. You want to tell him he can't?

They've written him off before and Tiger Woods proved them wrong when he won the Masters in 2019. There followed a terrible car accident and, this week, a seventh surgery on his busted back. But our man Matt Cleary believes he can not only come back, but compete and win again - at Augusta. History says it's possible. And so does Tiger Woods. 13 Oct 2025
Kooyonga to host LIV Adelaide

Kooyonga to host LIV Adelaide

Kooyonga Golf Club has been selected to host the LIV Golf Adelaide event in 2027, and its captain Geoff Brennan said the club is “excited to welcome the superstars of golf, plus fans from across the globe”. 10 Oct 2025
Australia tied for second after two rounds of Eisenhower Trophy

Australia tied for second after two rounds of Eisenhower Trophy

South Africa hold a five-stroke lead at 14-under 274 after the second round of the 34th World Amateur Team Championship at Tanah Merah GC in Singapore, with Australia tied for second with England and France. 10 Oct 2025
19 Holes With... Cameron Daddo

19 Holes With... Cameron Daddo

Cameron Daddo spent nearly 25 years in Los Angeles, was a comrade of a young Indiana Jones, and once went low on the set of Happy Gilmore. Our man Matt Cleary tests out the Daddo golf game over 18 holes at Manly GC. 29 Sep 2025
Cleary: Donald's dig at Team USA; Trump chaos feared; WAGs explained

Cleary: Donald's dig at Team USA; Trump chaos feared; WAGs explained

Luke Donald stakes high ground in pay-for-play imbroglio, organisers fear crowd chaos with attendance by Donald Trump, and our man Matt Cleary attempts to explain the phenomena of WAGs at this 45th Ryder Cup tournament between the USA and Europe. 22 Sep 2025
Herbert to defend NSW Open and signs on for Australian Open

Herbert to defend NSW Open and signs on for Australian Open

The NSW Open has received a significant boost with defending champion Lucas Herbert to contest the tournament, which will be held at The Vintage in the Hunter Valley from November 13-16. 19 Sep 2025
Norman Quits LIV Golf

Norman Quits LIV Golf

Founding CEO and Commissioner, Greg Norman, has stepped down from the LIV Golf league. 11 Sep 2025
Course Review: St Andrews Beach

Course Review: St Andrews Beach

Tom Doak’s St Andrews Beach has been freshly-ranked the 89th best course in the world by a reputable website, and you will hear no argument from our Deputy Editor, who, on his first go-round, describes the course as “more fun than both Luna Parks”. 10 Sep 2025
"Definitely want to": PGA confirmed, Australian Open likely, Smith now thinking NSW Open, Queensland PGA

"Definitely want to": PGA confirmed, Australian Open likely, Smith now thinking NSW Open, Queensland PGA

It would have surprised had he said otherwise, but Cameron Smith has given a strong indication that, following the Australian PGA Championship at Royal Queensland, he will take on Rory McIlroy at Royal Melbourne in December's Australian Open. Smith further revealed that he will likely be home in October and would love to compete in the NSW Open at The Vintage and the Queensland PGA at Nudgee. 9 Sep 2025
Video Lesson: Tiger's simple putting secrets revealed

Video Lesson: Tiger's simple putting secrets revealed

What Tiger Woods was thinking before he rolled in THAT putt to force a play-off in the 2008 U.S Open at Torrey Pines ... and the two simple concepts you can take from Tiger into your putting routine, according to Tom Linskey, founder and head teaching professional at Australian Golf Schools. 1 Sep 2025
Forged at Federal. Part 2

Forged at Federal. Part 2

Former club vice-captain Alan Harrison reckons “there wasn’t any one magical thing” which resulted in so many Federal juniors exploring careers in golf, but the greater environment was a very healthy one for aspiring youngsters. 31 Aug 2025
Feature story: Forged at Federal

Feature story: Forged at Federal

In the 1980s, a quiet revolution brewed at Federal Golf Club in Canberra. A ragtag bunch of kids, long socks and all, became touring pros, coaches, mentors and caddies. This is part one of the story of the club that launched a legion. 31 Aug 2025
Video Lesson: Sound off clubface key to distance control in pitch shots

Video Lesson: Sound off clubface key to distance control in pitch shots

"When you hit a pitch, the sound equals the contact and the contact equals the distance," says Australian Golf Schools Senior Teaching Professional, David Gleeson. "When you practise, even if you’re off a mat, try to make sure you're getting a consistent strike, and thus consistent, similar audio feedback. Listen for the percussion of the strike." 27 Aug 2025
Cleary: America! Gift fourth major to the world

Cleary: America! Gift fourth major to the world

With news that Augusta National will confer Masters-qualification status on the winners of several national Opens, including our Australian Open, Matt Cleary argues that the governing bodies of world golf should spread the love further and convince the PGA of America to relinquish Major status of its U.S PGA Championship, and each year grant a different country's national Open the title of Major. 27 Aug 2025
Turf War: Victoria and Cheltenham in battle over public track's new lease

Turf War: Victoria and Cheltenham in battle over public track's new lease

Cheltenham Golf Club, the 95-year-old, nine-hole, public course that shares a border with Victoria Golf Club in Melbourne’s famous Sandbelt, will face a vote in Bayside City Council chambers on Tuesday evening to determine the future of its lease. And its near-neighbour Victoria has emerged among the key opponents of Cheltenham's ambitions. 18 Aug 2025
Frightening footage of light plane crash on Sydney golf course

Frightening footage of light plane crash on Sydney golf course

Footage of a plane crash-landing on Mona Vale GC on Sydney's northern beaches has gone viral around the world. Witnesses reported a loud bang before the 1967 Piper Cherokee began its dramatic descent with apparent engine trouble. Two men in their 50s - an instructor and a trainee pilot - suffered abrasions and were treated by paramedics at the scene adjacent the 15th green. 17 Aug 2025
What's going on between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour? This...

What's going on between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour? This...

Within two minutes of being outed as golf magazine writer, the question will inevitably come: what’s going on between LIV and the PGA Tour? And my answer always is ... 13 Aug 2025
Governing bodies to unify digital experience "for the first time in the sport’s history"

Governing bodies to unify digital experience "for the first time in the sport’s history"

A joint initiative by the PGA of Australia and Golf Australia will amalgamate several websites to form GOLF.com.au, a “centralised, modern and mobile-friendly platform delivering a unified digital experience for the first time in the sport’s history,” according to a press release by the governing bodies. 23 Jul 2025
Cleary: Scottie Scheffler and the beige shades of New Tiger

Cleary: Scottie Scheffler and the beige shades of New Tiger

Scottie Scheffler isn't the Next Tiger Woods and doesn't have to be. Yet it's clear he's in a period of Woods-like dominance and may, one day, ascend into the pantheon with the Great Ones of golf and of sport. Why it's a bit of a snooze is vexing indeed. 21 Jul 2025
Cleary: Can't split Open and Masters, U.S Open next best, PGA last by length of Flemington Straight

Cleary: Can't split Open and Masters, U.S Open next best, PGA last by length of Flemington Straight

Matt Cleary shouts at a cloud, a President, the PGA Championship, the Scottish Open, Aberdeen, Turnberry, lager beer, the Atlantic Ocean and the Filet-of-Fish. 17 Jul 2025