courses and travel

Top-100 Spotlight: Killara GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Killara GC

By the late 1800s the once dry, rocky and inhospitable scrub of Sydney’s North Shore had been settled with farms, orchards and timber mills and was home to a growing population who found time for the occasional leisure activity in the period of relative prosperity before World War I. 5 May 2022
Review: Bonville Golf Resort

Review: Bonville Golf Resort

Bonville Golf Resort is Australia’s most beautiful inland golf course. 4 May 2022
Ranking: Tasmania's best courses for 2022

Ranking: Tasmania's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around the country? Here, we showcase the finest layouts in Tasmania as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 4 May 2022
Holiday at Home: The Great Ocean Road

Holiday at Home: The Great Ocean Road

For 100 years, the Great Ocean Road has been the gateway to one of the most iconic and beautiful coastlines in Australia, perhaps the world. And if you want to take in these breathtaking sights, we suggest you take your golf clubs with you. 28 Apr 2022
Ranking: Western Australia's best courses for 2022

Ranking: Western Australia's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around the country? Here, we showcase the finest layouts in Western Australia as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 27 Apr 2022
Travel: The Road to Rocky

Travel: The Road to Rocky

In a region of Queensland perhaps best known for seemingly endless fields of sugar cane that occasionally make way for beef grazing lands and lush rainforests, there are eight golf courses to enjoy when you’re not spotting whales or soaking up the tropical sun. 18 Mar 2022
Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Golf courses are lots of things to lots of people and ranking them in some sort of rational order is fraught given the emotions golf courses engender are not always rational. 15 Mar 2022
Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

The wine can wait – a taste for golf will take visitors to this established and vastly improved Hunter Valley icon. 11 Mar 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Warrnambool GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Warrnambool GC

It seems that every time Marc Leishman plays his way into contention in a tournament, his home town of Warrnambool, on Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast about three hours’ drive west of Melbourne, rates some kind of mention. 25 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Curlewis GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Curlewis GC

It was a chilly autumn evening in 2015, yet there was a strange, aggressive heat in the air. 24 Feb 2022
Review: Nudgee Golf Club

Review: Nudgee Golf Club

With a Centenary year fast approaching, Brisbane’s Nudgee Golf Club is on the cusp of completing what is arguably the most exciting project in their long history. 23 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: The Eastern GC

Top-100 Spotlight: The Eastern GC

From the moment you drive through the gates and ease your way up the long driveway to the clubhouse, you can’t help but be struck by the splendour of the golfing landscape and its surrounds at The Eastern Golf Club. 9 Feb 2022
RANKING: Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2022

RANKING: Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2022

After two years of uncertainty brought by pandemic lockdowns and border closures, here is the most comprehensive ranking of the nation’s finest layouts. 24 Jan 2022
Sentosa’s Serapong shapes up for SMBC Singapore Open

Sentosa’s Serapong shapes up for SMBC Singapore Open

The Serapong at Sentosa Golf Club, is being thrust back into the spotlight this week as it prepares to host the final event on the Asian Tour’s 2021/22 Order of Merit, the SMBC Singapore Open. 19 Jan 2022
Review: Maroochy River GC

Review: Maroochy River GC

Maroochy River Golf Club is one of the great success stories in recent Australian golfing history. 13 Dec 2021
Clayton, DeVries & Pont and Kruse Golf to advise Royal Perth

Clayton, DeVries & Pont and Kruse Golf to advise Royal Perth

Clayton, DeVries & Pont (CDP) and Kruse Golf (KG) are delighted to announce that they have been jointly retained by the Royal Perth Golf Club of South Perth, Western Australia to author a long-term plan for its course and advise on prospective renovations thereafter. 1 Dec 2021
Australia's 50 Most-Fun Short Courses

Australia's 50 Most-Fun Short Courses

A round of golf is not always about playing 18 holes, nor is it about tough challenges and breaking handicaps. 26 Oct 2021
Review: Kalgoorlie Golf Course

Review: Kalgoorlie Golf Course

Kalgoorlie is the quintessential Australian country town. 26 Oct 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Ocean Dunes

Top-100 Spotlight: Ocean Dunes

One of the treasured qualities of the acclaimed links layouts of Great Britain and Ireland is the natural setting – wild windswept holes rolling between sand dunes that have been in existence for centuries are the norm. 11 Oct 2021
Clayton: Hard golf doesn't always equal good golf

Clayton: Hard golf doesn't always equal good golf

One of the game’s great misconceptions is to equate an arduous golf course or a particularly difficult hole with good golf. 8 Sep 2021
Tasmania: Golf Tourism’s Titan

Tasmania: Golf Tourism’s Titan

It’s quite funny, really, that without one potato farmer taking an almighty risk, an entire state would almost certainly be without one of its strongest sources of tourism. 8 Sep 2021