courses and travel

Review: Monash Country Club

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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
Review: Titirangi Golf Club

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
Top-100 Spotlight: Port Fairy Golf Links

Top-100 Spotlight: Port Fairy Golf Links

Once upon a time, it was a little-known links on Victoria’s south-west coast. Today, the links at Port Fairy is firmly entrenched among the best 50 courses in the nation. 27 Nov 2023
Holiday at Home: North of the Swan River

Holiday at Home: North of the Swan River

The drive north-east from the Perth CBD through to the Swan Valley is one of the nicest journeys you can make in and around the West Australian capital. 22 Nov 2023
Review: Pelican Waters Golf Club

Review: Pelican Waters Golf Club

Bevan Henzell had a long-held dream of building a championship golf course on his family property near Golden Beach, just south of Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. 15 Nov 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
Top-100 Spotlight: Flinders Golf Club

Top-100 Spotlight: Flinders Golf Club

It is more than just a little ironic that the oldest golf club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Flinders Golf Club, might also be the region’s most underrated. 18 Oct 2023
Review: Metung Country Club

Review: Metung Country Club

When husband and wife, Adrian and Rachel Bromage, saw an opportunity to take over the nine-hole golf course in the small East Gippsland town of Metung, their interest was all about water. 16 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
Top-100 Spotlight: Palm Meadows

Top-100 Spotlight: Palm Meadows

In the late 1980s Palm Meadows was at the forefront of a new wave of resort courses being constructed in Australia. 26 Sep 2023