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Game changers: the best irons designed to help your game

Game changers: the best irons designed to help your game

We can all salivate over the pretty irons the best players in the world use, but realistically most golfers need a lot more help than a better player iron provides. 16 Aug 2023
Review: Bairnsdale Golf Club

Review: Bairnsdale Golf Club

Awards have come thick and fast for Bairnsdale Golf Club in the past decade, though recognition from the general public as one of country Victoria’s best courses has not come as easily. 16 Aug 2023
Video lesson: Punching out of trouble

Video lesson: Punching out of trouble

If you have the ability to punch a shot out of trouble, minimising the effect of your mistake, you can also limit the impact on your scorecard. 15 Aug 2023
Tested: Tour Edge Exotics E723, C723 & 723 Pro irons

Tested: Tour Edge Exotics E723, C723 & 723 Pro irons

Tour Edge's 723 Exotics line of irons displays a range of different models, covering golfers of all levels. 15 Aug 2023
Video lesson: Putting competitive pressure into practice

Video lesson: Putting competitive pressure into practice

Some practice drills are designed to improve your technique. 15 Aug 2023
Morri: Slumbers is a “voice of reason and wisdom”

Morri: Slumbers is a “voice of reason and wisdom”

What a breath of fresh air R&A CEO Martin Slumbers is. 14 Aug 2023
Tested: Mizuno ST-Z 230 & ST-X 230 drivers

Tested: Mizuno ST-Z 230 & ST-X 230 drivers

Mizuno shouldn't be winning acclaim just for its irons. Its entire range of hardware, including the ST-Z 230 and ST-X 230 drivers, are proof of that. 11 Aug 2023
Opinion: Why not a World Cup?

Opinion: Why not a World Cup?

The AIG Women’s Open sits as one of the great events on the calendar each year. This year that is heightened by the venue, Walton Heath, one of the great English heathland courses no longer able to contain the bash and dash of the men’s game. 9 Aug 2023
Golf when you like it

Golf when you like it

Golfers will do anything to get their fix. 8 Aug 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Kooindah Waters Golf Club

Top-100 Spotlight: Kooindah Waters Golf Club

It’s in the nature of courses to change, diluting the links between designer and design – sometimes, however, it’s the architect that gets there first, ready to mentally file away the last project and move onto the next. 8 Aug 2023
Morri: Meaningful moments at Mangrove Mountain

Morri: Meaningful moments at Mangrove Mountain

What stood out for you over the past week in golf? Bryson’s winning 58? Celine Boutier going back-to-back at the Women’s Scottish Open? Justin Thomas’ run to make the Playoffs? 7 Aug 2023
Opinion: Engage rather than rage

Opinion: Engage rather than rage

Like clockwork every couple of months, golf, and more specifically golf courses, come under fire from people who believe the land and resources could be better used. 2 Aug 2023
Morri: Rollback decision about saving face

Morri: Rollback decision about saving face

Like a stone dropped in a pond the fallout from Jay Monahan’s rejection of the distance rollback proposal will continue to make waves in golf for a long time to come. 31 Jul 2023
Opinion: Making mountains out of major courses

Opinion: Making mountains out of major courses

The host venue of a major championship inevitably receives plenty of attention in the lead-up to, and in aftermath of, the week. 26 Jul 2023
Morri: Four is enough

Morri: Four is enough

It’s a circular, endless and ultimately stupid debate but let’s indulge for a moment regardless, shall we? 24 Jul 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Forster-Tuncurry Golf Club: Tuncurry Course

Top-100 Spotlight: Forster-Tuncurry Golf Club: Tuncurry Course

The term ‘hidden gem’ is so often overused by golf scribes when reviewing a course. I know I have been guilty of it from time-to-time but I promise from now on that will change because this is a tale about a genuine golfing gem of the hidden variety. 23 Jul 2023
Review: Camden Golf Club

Review: Camden Golf Club

My experiences at Camden Golf Club date back to the early 1980s when, as a teenage golfer growing up in western Sydney, myself and a few mates would play in the club’s Cup event and the occasional open day. 21 Jul 2023
Opinion: Is this Australia’s golden era?

Opinion: Is this Australia’s golden era?

Australian golf has always punched above its weight. 20 Jul 2023
Morri: The next wave of golf podcasters

Morri: The next wave of golf podcasters

It’s not often your two favourite pursuits meet in one project but if you live long enough and you’re a little bit lucky it can happen – as it has for me this past week. 17 Jul 2023
Baker's history in the making

Baker's history in the making

It all started with a scrapbook. In truth, the seeds were there before that when Ross Baker first realised as a trainee golf professional that his skills lay more with making clubs than swinging them. 14 Jul 2023
Opinion: A putting stroke worth celebrating

Opinion: A putting stroke worth celebrating

Not for the first time, and certainly not the last, the messy split and attempt to reunite the top of the men’s game has taken over the golf news cycle almost completely. 12 Jul 2023