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Australian Open champion locks in Vic Open appearance

Australian Open champion locks in Vic Open appearance

Former world No.1 Jiyai Shin will get the chance to complete a rare Summer of Golf double after confirming she will be back at 13th Beach Golf Links for the 2025 Vic Open next month. 15 Jan 2025
Beauties of the Bellarine

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
The Great Golf Weekend Guide Part II

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
The Great Golf Weekend Guide Part I

The Great Golf Weekend Guide Part I

There's only one thing better than the weekend and that's a long weekend. Two-day weekends are way too short, which is why we have put our heads together to recommend eight fantastic three-day golfing adventures with plenty of highlights on and off the course. 29 Sep 2023
Local Legend: Rob Bradley

Local Legend: Rob Bradley

Many who know Rob Bradley and his family well say his 27-year-old son Joseph is his spitting image at the corresponding age. 17 Aug 2023
Gallery: Victoria's best public access courses for 2023

Gallery: Victoria's best public access courses for 2023

Looking for the best courses to play around Australia, where getting a tee time is open for every golfer? Here, we showcase the best public access layouts in Victoria as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023. 1 Aug 2023
Vic Open marks 11 years at 13th beach in 2024

Vic Open marks 11 years at 13th beach in 2024

The Vic Open will be back at its home, 13th Beach Golf Links on the Bellarine Peninsula, for an 11th year in 2024 with the tournament dates locked in for February 1-4. 26 Jul 2023
Review: Portarlington Golf Club

Review: Portarlington Golf Club

The past 20 years have been a bullish period for golf on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. 3 May 2023
Plan your ultimate Great Ocean Road and Bellarine road trip

Plan your ultimate Great Ocean Road and Bellarine road trip

The Great Ocean Road and Bellarine region of Victoria may be world-renowned for its natural beauties and wonders like the Twelve Apostles, but for golfers in the know, it’s an essential pilgrimage. 16 Sep 2022
Opinion: Peninsula and Vic Open a perfect pair

Opinion: Peninsula and Vic Open a perfect pair

Pre-Covid, the Vic Open felt as if it may be a victim of its own success. 11 Feb 2022
Holiday At Home: Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula

Holiday At Home: Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula

For so long the golf courses of Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula have existed in the shadow cast by the amazing layouts of the Mornington Peninsula, which is just a 40-minute ferry ride across Port Phillip Bay. 16 Jun 2021
Inside Golf Australia June 2021

Inside Golf Australia June 2021

The “toughest test in golf” is back as the men’s and women’s US Opens travel to Torrey Pines and The Olympic Club respectively this month. 20 May 2021
Review: Lonsdale Links

Review: Lonsdale Links

Lonsdale Links features template holes and square-cut greens as a deliberate throwback to an earlier, golden, age of course design. But it also possesses plenty of its own character and is destined to feature in the national rankings for years to come. 7 May 2021
Vic Open cancelled for 2021

Vic Open cancelled for 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting border closures along with international travel restrictions have forced the cancellation of the Vic Open scheduled for February, 2021. 22 Oct 2020
Join A Club: Geelong Golf Club

Join A Club: Geelong Golf Club

Geelong is the gateway into Victoria’s beautiful Bellarine Peninsula and is home to one of Australia’s best nine-hole courses – Geelong Golf Club. 21 Sep 2020
Ogilvy to make Vic Open return

Ogilvy to make Vic Open return

There’s not much Geoff Ogilvy hasn’t done in golf. 11 Jan 2019

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