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Morikawa primed to pounce at the majors again
It happens in sports all over the globe.
9 Apr 2025
C'mon, Aussies: the local hopes to get Australia out of bed Monday morning
It’s been 12 years since Adam Scott drained that mighty 25-footer to birdie the second play-off hole of the 2013 Masters; 12 years since we raised the rooves of living rooms and golf clubs around the land; 12 years since the greatest excuse for breakfast beers since Bob Hawke gave everyone the day off in 1983.
9 Apr 2025
Health and head space keys to McIlroy's Masters
After being cut off at the knees when Jay Monahan quite surprisingly went on television with the head of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to announce what was perceived then to be a “merger” between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, Rory McIlroy quit his role as the establishment’s pseudo-spokesman in the great pro golf imbroglio of our times. And it’s looked like the outlook has agreed with him since. The man looks like he’s free.
9 Apr 2025
Review: Bonville Golf Resort
For more than three decades, the dramatic, densely treed and visually breathtaking landscape that is home to the Bonville Golf Resort has drawn observational comparisons with the iconic Augusta National Golf Club, where the 89th Masters Tournament will be played this week.
8 Apr 2025
Ogilvy: The one time I played well enough at Augusta to actually win
“Eight times” is the response I give to a question I’m often asked: how many times did you play in the Masters? I wish it was more often, because I always felt the Augusta National course and my game were a pretty good fit.
8 Apr 2025
Hits and memories of Rory at Augusta
He’s missed the cut (three times), he’s led after three rounds, he’s notched four top-5s and eight top-10s. There were years he was never really in it, others when he most certainly was. And there were years when you thought – surely, this time – Rory McIlroy will up and win the first major championship of the year, The Masters, at venerable Augusta National in Georgia.
8 Apr 2025
Cleary: Horror movie, right there on my TV: Greg Norman's Masters of 1996
The Masters at Augusta National is special because the course can tell stories. Glorious ones, compelling ones. There's been happiness, hubris and horror shows. And then there is Greg Norman in 1996, which nearly 30 years on remains borderline unwatchable.
7 Apr 2025
Head, heart and elbow, it's Rory's Masters
I want it to be Rory. Chances are you want it to be Rory. And the editor of this crackerjack journal would like it to be Rory, given he’s splashed the man all over the cover and throughout the pages of our glossy bit of kit which is still a bargain at $9.08 per month at all respected subscription services.
7 Apr 2025
Stableford is great. But match-play against the hole? That's a top fun format
Stableford competition rules at Australian golf clubs and it's maybe fair enough; it takes less time and is lots more enjoyable than stroke-play, and nobody complains about it. But there's a format under our nose that one could describe as "match-play against an implacable, nerveless opponent" that should have more precedence, as Matt Cleary argues here.
31 Mar 2025
Solbari: Sun protective apparel
According to a study by the University of South Australia, golfers are 2.4 times more likely to suffer from skin cancer than other Australians.
19 Mar 2025
Huggan: Adding-up majors should never be the sole measure of ultimate worth
As recent events in the male professional game have done nothing but escalate an already tasteless emphasis on money, the suspicion here is that the historical significance of golf’s four major championships is only going to increase.
19 Mar 2025
Personal Lesson: Putt with hybrid from off the green
Most people reach for a wedge around the green but from uphill lies it can be difficult to get good, crisp contact with a lofted club because the leading edge can get stuck into the hill as you're playing through the shot. And while there are several clubs you could use, around courses with raised greens - and thus a lot of short shots from uphill lies - a hybrid is a great option, according to Head Professional at Pennant Hills GC, Neil Rolfe
17 Mar 2025
19 Holes With ... Chad Townsend and Val Holmes
Former North Queensland Cowboys Val Holmes and Chad Townsend are Sydneysiders these days, turning out for the St George Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters respectively. Yet their passion for golf and their Players Club social media and merchandise empire, forged in Townsville, has travelled into the deep south with them, as Matt Cleary found on a fine – if perilous to passing motorists - afternoon at Monash Country Club.
17 Mar 2025
Cleary: Postcard from California
Our man Matt Cleary visited the great state of California for a golf and cultural exchange tour for the ages, and found the fine city of San Francisco where there is craft beer and steep streets and freaky driverless taxis. And, he can assure you, there is some of the all-time top golf.
17 Mar 2025
The Aussies at The Players
A five-strong Aussie contingent will attempt to combat the famed TPC Sawgrass in a bid to become the sixth Australian to win the Players Championship.
12 Mar 2025
Personal Lesson: Stop your chips dead at the hole
Andrew Cooper, Head Teaching Professional at Victoria Golf Club, demonstrates the keys to gaining sufficient elevation and stopping power for chips around the green – a very common skill requirement around the tight lies of the Melbourne Sandbelt, but an action which can be applied on most surfaces around the green.
12 Mar 2025
"More pointless than Pokémon": Tomorrow's Golf League critiqued, and roughly
Matt Cleary has seen enough of Tomorrow's Golf League (TGL), the hybrid, indoor-outdoor, digital-actual, teams-based golf league in Florida to know that it's not for him. Indeed he wonders if it has any point at all.
10 Mar 2025
Huggan: Confident tours wouldn't be bothered by LIV Golf
Timing, as someone once said in a moment of clarity, is everything. And rarely has that been more glaringly obvious than at the recent Dubai Desert Classic.
5 Mar 2025
Cleary: Postcard from Sin City
Our man Matt Cleary is on a sports odyssey of the United States, and comes to us live from Las Vegas where the stakes (and steaks) are large, the ice hockey impenetrable and the golf is flat-out extraordinary.
5 Mar 2025
Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
Brian Slawnik and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design have long been unabashed fans of the Sandbelt, and of Commonwealth Golf Club in particular. When asked to redesign the course, the first thing Slawnik told members was that it’s already great and that RGD would approach the work as preservationists. What Slawnik, RGD and Commonwealth greens staff did since has reimagined and reinvigorated one of Australia’s great courses.
1 Mar 2025
Magic in the Mountains: NZ Open Preview
For the purist, nothing quite tugs on the heartstrings like reminiscing about the glory days of national Opens.
25 Feb 2025
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