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Ranking: Tasmania's best public access courses for 2021
Over the past two decades, Tasmania has emerged as one of the world's great golf destinations. Here, we shine a spotlight on the best courses everyone can play in the Apple Isle.
18 May 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Sanctuary Cove G&CC Palms Course
The iconic Gold Coast club recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the reopening of its Palms Course after an $8.8 million rebuild.
11 May 2021
Holiday At Home: NSW Central Coast
The natural treasures of the New South Wales Central Coast quickly become obvious.
10 May 2021
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
Top-100 Spotlight: The Glades Golf Club
One of the best courses to be found on the golf rich Gold Coast has had recent refurbishments validated with an improved national ranking. Here’s why The Glades’ popularity is growing.
21 Apr 2021
Review: Narooma Golf Club
In this era of holidaying at home, ‘taking the scenic route’ is one sure way to make a golfing discovery that will live long in the memory. Here is one course to be found on the road less travelled that we’re sure you will agree is simply spectacular.
14 Apr 2021
CLAYTON: How Augusta could be better
Augusta National is the course on every golfer’s bucket list. But it’s evolution away from the original creation of Alister MacKenzie and Bob Jones has been to its detriment. Here’s how the home of the Masters could be an even better course.
6 Apr 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: The Coast Golf Club
A course on great golfing land isn’t always guaranteed to offer golf to match the quality of its location. Located among a string of seaside courses on some of the best golfing land in Sydney, The Coast provides a golfing experience the equal of its impressive address.
10 Mar 2021
Review: Growling Frog Golf Club
New management and passionate staff with a firmly held view of sustainable golf practices has led to dramatic improvements at the course known by regulars simply as ‘The Frog’.
8 Mar 2021
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2021
Our biennial ranking of the Top-100 Public Access Courses in the nation is here. With international travel off the table for the foreseeable future, here is a feast of fine courses everyone can play … right here at home.
27 Jan 2021
From Bust to Boom
A small town in the heart of Victoria’s Goldfields region has brought some fun back to golf, and is striking it rich with expanded memberships and plans for future course improvements.
20 Jan 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Mollymook Golf Club
Having weathered bushfire and COVID-19 crises, Mollymook Golf Club is ready to put 2020 in the rear-vision mirror and greet the New Year as one of the best public access courses in the nation.
19 Jan 2021
Inside Royal Queensland
As Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centennial year drew to a close in 2020, one of the men who masterminded its rebirth 14 years ago offered some insights into the layout and addressed some misconceptions about the design.
18 Jan 2021
Review: Hamilton Island Golf Club
An island that was once home to little more than “two goats and a lighthouse”, is today the spectacular setting for one of Australia’s best golf courses.
11 Jan 2021
100 Fun Aussie Courses to Play for $50 or Less
More Australians are playing golf today than at any other time in the past 20 years. But the economic reality, as we emerge from the darkest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, is many of us now need to make our hard-earned dollars stretch a little further. Here, we reveal the 18-hole layouts – and some standout nine-holers – offering Australian golfers the greatest value for money golfing experiences.
16 Dec 2020
Australia’s 100 Best Par-5s
On the world’s professional Tours, par-5s aren’t what they used to be. In fact, many are turned into par-4s for tournament play. For the rest of us, they represent lengthy journeys but a good opportunity to improve our score with perhaps a couple of lusty blows and a deft pitch.
8 Dec 2020
Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2020, as voted by you
What do you like about the golf courses you play? Are you a course design geek or does the quality of the playing surfaces get the juices flowing?
3 Dec 2020
Review: The Lakes Golf Club
This iconic Sydney course has a rich history dating back 92 years – but it is only in recent times that its fame and reputation has soared as a big tournament venue and a wonderful place to play.
2 Dec 2020
Home-Grown Holiday: Discovering the Illawarra
The great natural beauty of New South Wales’ Illawarra region forms the scenic backdrop to some quality golf courses, which are all accessible to the travelling golfer, making it the ideal destination for a home-grown holiday.
6 Nov 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: St Andrews Beach
It began as a concept for a private member-only golf course in the heart of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, but a significant chain of events has seen it evolve into one of the best public access layouts in the nation.
2 Nov 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
A century after being established, one of the Melbourne Sandbelt’s finest layouts is looking to tweak its design to better reflect its origins.
27 Oct 2020
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