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Cleary: Fear, loathing and exceptionalism - why the PGA Tour is bad for world golf
There’s a theory, a term, you could call it a Thing, called ‘American exceptionalism’, in which many of our dear, sweet and slightly left-field cousins in America believe to their star-spangled bootstraps that they live in the greatest land of liberty in the history of humankind.
4 Mar 2024
Morri: Public golf... again
Almost evert day it seems my Twitter feed contains news of another public golf course under threat somewhere in the world.
26 Feb 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
Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching
Watching the play at Riviera this past week once again brought the role of the golf course in tournament play sharply into focus.
19 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
Video lesson: Square up your alignment
If you are wondering why you never seem to hit a straight golf shot, it probably has something to do with your alignment.
14 Feb 2024
Friends again: What a 'perfect' World Golf Tour would look like
It was the sainted Rory McIlroy who said: “If we can create a perfect golf calendar, what would it look like? I don’t think it would look like it looks right now. I think there would be changes made.”
14 Feb 2024
Video lesson: Stop hitting chunky shots now
Are you having trouble hitting the ball cleanly?
14 Feb 2024
Morri: Thoughts from left field
Aaah the Phoenix Open. What more can be said.
12 Feb 2024
Morri: Social media done right
For all its faults (and there are many, as we know) social media does at least one thing better than ‘traditional’ media ever has and that is offer direct access to the thoughts of some of the game’s best proponents.
29 Jan 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
Course Review: Carrington Estate
The seaside location of the Carrington Estate had me fully expecting to find a links style course.
24 Jan 2024
Morri: Does driver hold the key?
It was a throwaway line from DP World Tour player Andy Sullivan in Dubai, but it was telling about the distance debate on many levels.
22 Jan 2024
Video lesson: Brett Rumford reveals how to hit pure pitch shots
Have you ever wondered why Tour pros make pitch shots look so damn easy?
17 Jan 2024
A Shark's Tale
Greg Norman can sell. Because “Greg Norman” sells.
17 Jan 2024
Review: Mollymook Golf Club
“I guess now we know why they call them rapids and not ‘slow-pids’, huh?” – Ned Flanders, The Simpsons, 1993,
17 Jan 2024
Morri: Aussie Open’s status according to Rory
It’s hard to pin down exactly when it happened (and it’s never been close to the truth) but the notion of the Australian Open as some kind of ‘fifth major’ is back in the headlines thanks to Rory McIlroy.
15 Jan 2024
Local Legend: Scott Warren
There are local legends, and there are genuinely high-quality players.
20 Dec 2023
Morri: Out of the mouths of babes …
With Christmas fast approaching the temptation when one writes a regular column is to cast one’s mind back over the 12 months just passed and run through some highlights and lowlights.
18 Dec 2023
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
2023 in review: Playing by the numbers
Golf is a numbers game, from your score to par to the amount of money you take off your mate on a Sunday afternoon. Here, we break down all the critical numbers from 2023.
14 Dec 2023
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