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Cleary: PGA Tour's flagship is a beauty. But "fifth major"? Please.
The Players Championship is equal parts spectacle and significance, a tournament rich in history, politics and contradictions, and played on a stadium course created by the great Pete and Alice Dye. But fifth major? Never was, never will be, according to Matt Cleary.
11 Mar 2026
Personal Lesson: Feel the flow for effortless power
This is a simple drill, but a very good one for feeling weight transfer and flow during the golf swing, says Senior Teaching Professional at Australian Golf Schools, Therese Hjertstedt.
11 Mar 2026
Golf, NRL and Las Vegas Equals Good Times In The Badlands
Attending the NRL’s Las Vegas annual season-opening showcase is wild enough, but the real fun begins when fans swap jerseys for golf clubs. From Wolf Creek’s cartoon-esque chaos to Cascata’s desert elegance, Nevada’s golf delivers big hits, bold curves and unforgettable thrills.
4 Mar 2026
19 Holes With... Kerri-Anne Kennerley
She’s been on the board of Golf Australia, interviewed the greatest players the game has seen, and remains a fierce advocate for golf in this country – women, men, boys and girls. But girls, as the great Cyndi Lauper would tell you, just want to have fun. And at Commonwealth GC in May, you could join Ms Kennerley for a qualifying event for the Duke of Edinburgh Cup, which has, as its major prize, a week of golf (including Wentworth) and a dinner with the Duke at Windsor Castle where wine is served by butlers in goblets.
17 Feb 2026
Inside the Ropes as Kimmy slays the Big Dogs
Anthony Kim's charge to the title at LIV Adelaide was some of the great theatre, and our man Matt Cleary followed along, inside the ropes, as Kim thrilled the people with a Cinderella story for the ages.
15 Feb 2026
Fans The Winners as Bison Goes Wild at The Grange
Bryson DeChambeau’s philosophy to golf appears to be "go hard or go home". He winds up and lets rip, and the golf ball soars to many parts of the course, most of which designer Vern Morcom did not have in mind as landing zones. At The Grange on Friday, DeChambeau went hard and was a long way from home. And legions of fans had intimate seats to a visceral, thrilling performance by this great entertainer, writes Matt Cleary
13 Feb 2026
Journeyman, Cinderella Man ... Will the real Anthony Kim stand up?
Anthony Kim was a Ryder Cup hero, nearly won the Masters, went through the wars, went missing, was tossed a Wildcard lifeline by LIV, was tossed off the tour, then fought his way back on. Matt Cleary followed the man for 18 holes at The Grange and reckons there's a very good, maybe even great, player inside the man's much-busted body.
12 Feb 2026
Inside the Ropes with Case, Bison and the Sportos
Our man Matt Cleary gets out amongst a marquee group for LIV Adelaide's Pro-Am at the Grange, and finds that even superstar sportsmen who've performed in heaving cauldrons of humanity can be cowed once inside the ropes with the Bison.
11 Feb 2026
Last Stand: LIV Adelaide to rock out at The Grange
Excellent golf, super-fine course, smokey food, funky tunes, cool brews - there's a lot to like about the spectator experience at LIV Adelaide which remains the LIV league's crown jewel, reports our man-on-the-ground at The Grange, Matt Cleary.
11 Feb 2026
Cleary: Koepka's gone, Reed's gone, Elvis and the kids are in the building. Why LIV's laughing
Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have left the LIV Golf league, while Bryson DeChambeau is playing his chips in a half-billion dollar power play. And the demise of LIV Golf has been prophesised again. And yet, LIV continues to invest - in youth, in a world tour, in itself - giving no indication of going anywhere, writes Matt Cleary.
11 Feb 2026
Next big thing, sure. But world's best? From LIV league? Jury is out
Elvis Smylie’s mentor and former caddie, Mike Clayton, reveals what he said to the 23-year-old in their first telephone conversation after Smylie signed with LIV Golf – and if he believes, as Smylie believes, that the 23-year-old can be the best player in the world.
9 Feb 2026
Golf Australia magazine goes pro at the Mini Golf Masters
Steve Samuelson won the Australian Mini Golf Masters in November at Lynwood Country Club in Sydney's north-west, and our man Matt Cleary was there to document the event while competing (poorly) in it. What he found was far from hit-and-giggle - indeed it's a mode of golf with a great deal of potential
28 Jan 2026
Video Lesson: Channel sports champions in your golf swing
During his career, Tom Linskey has had the opportunity to play golf with so many of Australia’s great sports people – and so many of them play golf every chance they get. Here we learn what Linskey's learned from the movement of athletes in other ball sports.
28 Jan 2026
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.
28 Jan 2026
Jones dropped by Ripper GC
Dual Australian Open winner and inaugural LIV Golf season recruit, Matt Jones, has been released from the all-Australian Ripper GC team.
23 Dec 2025
Thanks, Champion: superstar thrills us to the end
He couldn't come back from seven shots down, he couldn't surge up the leaderboard, and he couldn't make off with his second Stonehaven Cup. But the great Rory McIlroy gave fans plenty in his final hit-out at Royal Melbourne and the fans gave him plenty back.
7 Dec 2025
Cleary: McIlroy shoots 68 as the golf gods go crazy
Rory McIlroy has battled heat, wind, rain, clutching ti-tree and children squealing like banshees for his autograph. Yet nothing in his long career could have prepared him for what the golf gods threw at him in round three of the Australian Open at Royal Melbourne.
6 Dec 2025
Hoffman: Royal Melbourne not enough to entice PGA Tour stars
With Rory McIlroy locked in for two years and lauding the Australian Open and our Sandbelt gems, will it entice his fellow PGA Tour stars to contest our national crown? To paraphrase and Australianise one PGA Tour veteran, yeah-nah.
5 Dec 2025
Periscopes up! A morning with the masses and the marquee group
Matt Cleary was out early among the teeming masses at Royal Melbourne, straining on tippy-toes to see the great one, Rory McIlroy, take on the course he rated top 10 in the world but not the best course in Melbourne. And despite McIlroy's card looking like an 18-marker's in a par-comp, the appreciative galleries took Cleary back to simpler times...
4 Dec 2025
Cleary: The Master cometh, but the Aussie to beat him is...
It is a fraught pursuit, golf tipping; the fields are the size of six Melbourne Cups, “exposed form” is fractious, and conditions can be diametrically different for morning and afternoon players. This hasn't stopped Deputy Editor Matt Cleary from ponying up (and no doubt mocking to death) his tip to beat the Master, Rory McIlroy, in this 2025 Australian Open.
3 Dec 2025
Cleary: The Aussie is back and it never went away
Australia's great tournament is back on Australia's great golf course, and they'll be hanging from the trees for a look, writes Matt Cleary.
2 Dec 2025
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