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Top-100 Spotlight: The Lakes Golf Club
When you roll through the gates at premier golf clubs, anticipating what you are about to experience is a thrill that never wanes.
9 Sep 2024
Golf Road Trip: Blue Mountains and Beyond
The Three Sisters rock formations are famous the world over, but the Blue Mountains are so much more than that. For example, there’s a lot of super-fun and challenging golf to be found along the Great Western Highway for a perfect weekend getaway starting from Springwood on the edge of the range to Bathurst and Orange further out west.
4 Sep 2024
Review: Gerringong Golf Club
With panoramic ocean views from every corner of the layout, this always-improving course on NSW’s South Coast is quirky, challenging and – most importantly – a lot of fun to play.
4 Sep 2024
Travel: Highlands Swing
Every now and then a newspaper will trot out an article quoting academics and professionals advocating for the four-day working week.
19 Aug 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: The Brisbane Golf Club
Founded in the late 19th century, Brisbane’s oldest golf club boasts an honour board adorned with the names of all-time greats who have won club and significant amateur events, including the likes of Norman Von Nida and Frank Phillips.
14 Aug 2024
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
Travel: Fabulous Fancourt
There are few dates on the calendar as highly anticipated as a golf trip covering multiple courses, intertwined with once in a lifetime experiences and accompanied with great food and wine.
9 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
Travel Feature: Capital Country
The best thing about Canberra is the air. Now, now – none of your cheek. Not the stuff out of the buffoons we send to the Capital to look after our interests, the gibbering nincompoops whose bluster could power so many of Canberra’s much-photographed hot-air balloons.
2 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
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
Review: Pymble Golf Club
Of all the questions that are asked of a golf course one that is rarely heard is “does it give the members what they want?”
13 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
Woodlands appoints acclaimed design team
Clayton, DeVries & Pont (CDP) in partnership with KruseGolf are delighted to announced they have been jointly appointed as course architectural advisors to Woodlands Golf Club, in Melbourne’s world-famous Sandbelt.
10 Jan 2024
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
Top-100 Spotlight: Leongatha Golf Club
A list of the regional Victoria’s best golf courses would not be complete without Leongatha Golf Club in South Gippsland and its Vern Morcom-designed layout is about to get even better.
14 Dec 2023
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