courses and travel

Holiday at home: Hunter with a big game

Holiday at home: Hunter with a big game

From the rolling hills of the Hunter Valley wine country, to Newcastle’s beachside suburbs and north to the holiday haven of Port Stephens, New South Wales’ Hunter region is a golfer’s playground. 15 Dec 2022
Review: Bribie Island Golf Club

Review: Bribie Island Golf Club

La Nina wreaked havoc right along the east coast of Australia at different times during 2022. 14 Dec 2022
Holiday At Home: Go Troppo!

Holiday At Home: Go Troppo!

Tropical North Queensland is a special part of the world. 24 Oct 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: New South Wales GC

Top-100 Spotlight: New South Wales GC

There are only a few courses scattered across the globe that can rival New South Wales for presenting such an array of fascinating and spectacularly natural seaside holes. 19 Oct 2022
Review: Ballarat Golf Club

Review: Ballarat Golf Club

There has been no more learned person in Australian golf than the late Peter Thomson. 17 Oct 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Lost Farm

Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Lost Farm

When Barnbougle Dunes opened for play in 2004 it had its share of critics who suggested it was too isolated for the golfing masses to make it a financially viable success. 5 Oct 2022
60 Best Aussie metro courses you can play for $50 or less

60 Best Aussie metro courses you can play for $50 or less

Inflation is on the rise and the cost-of-living is starting to hit the hip pocket nerve. But there’s no need to sacrifice your golf game. 29 Sep 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Kew GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Kew GC

Melbourne’s Kew Golf Club has been an important part of Victoria’s golfing landscape for 128 years. 28 Sep 2022
Review: Wembley Golf Course

Review: Wembley Golf Course

Public golf courses have long been an early port of call for any person dipping their toe into the glorious pond we know as the greatest game of all. 25 Sep 2022
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
Top-100 Spotlight: The Vintage

Top-100 Spotlight: The Vintage

There is almost comfort in the monotony of making a trip you have made many times before. A feeling enhanced when you know there is an enjoyable experience at the end of your journey. 12 Sep 2022
Review: Royal Hobart Golf Club

Review: Royal Hobart Golf Club

The Royal Hobart Golf Club has come a long way since its humble, and quite unusual, beginnings in 1896. 8 Sep 2022
60 Best Aussie regional courses you can play for $50 or less

60 Best Aussie regional courses you can play for $50 or less

With cost-of-living pressures being what they are at the moment, you don’t need to avoid the golf course to save your pennies. 7 Sep 2022
Review: Albany Golf Club

Review: Albany Golf Club

I have no doubt the great Dr Alister MacKenzie would like the links at Albany Golf Club. 19 Aug 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

There was a time not that long ago when golfers could have been forgiven for thinking there was little chance of any new links courses being built around the Australian coastline. 18 Aug 2022
Review: Moree Golf Club

Review: Moree Golf Club

Mother Nature and unheralded course designer, Arthur East, conspired to create a simple but fun layout at Moree that has withstood great floods and the test of time. 17 Aug 2022
Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

It begins as a trickle in the Australian Alps and winds northwest forming the border between NSW and Victoria before flowing into South Australia then heading south and, ultimately, out to sea. 10 Aug 2022
Gallery: St. Andrews' Old Course – the greatest links of all

Gallery: St. Andrews' Old Course – the greatest links of all

Much of the buzz in St. Andrews leading into the 150th Open Championship has been about the star of the show – the Old Course. Tiger Woods calls it his favourite course and there is a long queue behind him who would share a similar view. Here is a photographic celebration of all 18 holes of the world’s greatest links layout. 13 Jul 2022
Clayton: The brilliance of the Old Course

Clayton: The brilliance of the Old Course

Peter Thomson long argued The Old Course at St. Andrews was the game’s most important course and all others are mere copies. 12 Jul 2022
Ranking: Victoria's best courses for 2022

Ranking: Victoria's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around Australia? Here, we showcase the very best layouts to be played in Victoria as voted by our Top-100 Courses ranking judges for 2022. 1 Jun 2022
Ranking: NSW & ACT's best courses for 2022

Ranking: NSW & ACT's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around the country? Here, we showcase the finest layouts to be played in New South Wales and the nation's capital as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 25 May 2022