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Morri: Seven Mile Beach vision about more than golf

Morri: Seven Mile Beach vision about more than golf

‘What have been the success stories of golf in the last 20 years? Barnbougle, Bandon, Goat Hill. Places where individuals with passion and vision and persistence have been driving things. Not committees, not boards, not OEMs.’ 12 Sep 2022
Huggan: Sergio’s departure disappoints but doesn’t surprise

Huggan: Sergio’s departure disappoints but doesn’t surprise

As these words are written, qualifying for the European Ryder Cup team that will attempt to recover the trophy from American hands in Italy a year from now is less than four days old. 11 Sep 2022
Review: Royal Hobart Golf Club

Review: Royal Hobart Golf Club

The Royal Hobart Golf Club has come a long way since its humble, and quite unusual, beginnings in 1896. 8 Sep 2022
Tested: Adidas TOUR360 22 shoes

Tested: Adidas TOUR360 22 shoes

The TOUR360 22 shoes blend athletic and classic better than many other models adidas has produced in the past. 8 Sep 2022
60 Best Aussie regional courses you can play for $50 or less

60 Best Aussie regional courses you can play for $50 or less

With cost-of-living pressures being what they are at the moment, you don’t need to avoid the golf course to save your pennies. 7 Sep 2022
Morri: Imagination the key to golf’s image problem

Morri: Imagination the key to golf’s image problem

The ‘I’s’ have it. Image and imagination, opposite sides of the same coin that contain both the problem and solution for golf. 5 Sep 2022
Opinion: Cam’s chance to genuinely ‘grow the game’

Opinion: Cam’s chance to genuinely ‘grow the game’

It’s the most tired phrase in world golf. And so many of those telling us that they are “growing the game” have no intention to do so, or know what it looks like. 1 Sep 2022
Morri: Take a sad Cup and make it better

Morri: Take a sad Cup and make it better

For all the hand wringing and public proclamations on both sides, neither LIV Golf nor the PGA Tour/DP World Tour have brought anything genuinely interesting or new to the game these past few months. 29 Aug 2022
Morri: Two reminders of golf’s best 76 years apart

Morri: Two reminders of golf’s best 76 years apart

Forget Tiger and Rory and their new digital venture and Norman and Phil and their Saudi backed LIV Tour. 22 Aug 2022
Review: Albany Golf Club

Review: Albany Golf Club

I have no doubt the great Dr Alister MacKenzie would like the links at Albany Golf Club. 19 Aug 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

There was a time not that long ago when golfers could have been forgiven for thinking there was little chance of any new links courses being built around the Australian coastline. 18 Aug 2022
Review: Moree Golf Club

Review: Moree Golf Club

Mother Nature and unheralded course designer, Arthur East, conspired to create a simple but fun layout at Moree that has withstood great floods and the test of time. 17 Aug 2022
Morri: Cam ruling conspiracies showcase golf’s divide

Morri: Cam ruling conspiracies showcase golf’s divide

There was a time when a good old fashioned rules snafu was just that: a bunch of golf nerds arguing the rights and wrongs of the game’s rules after some sort of high profile incident. 15 Aug 2022
Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

It begins as a trickle in the Australian Alps and winds northwest forming the border between NSW and Victoria before flowing into South Australia then heading south and, ultimately, out to sea. 10 Aug 2022
Morri: Like it or not, course design matters

Morri: Like it or not, course design matters

Watching the best women in the world being tested by one of the game’s great links at Muirfield got me thinking about course architecture and its broader role in the game. 8 Aug 2022
Morri: Northcote’s moment of truth

Morri: Northcote’s moment of truth

Sometimes, it feels as though golf exists simultaneously in parallel universes. 25 Jul 2022
Morri: Remember the name … Joo-hyung Kim

Morri: Remember the name … Joo-hyung Kim

The attention, as it should be, was at the top of the leaderboard at the Old Course as one of the more compelling majors in recent memory unfolded. 18 Jul 2022
Huggan: Can we have our Old Course back please?

Huggan: Can we have our Old Course back please?

By the presumably informed calculation of a guy going by the name, Tiger Woods, the Open Championship is not scheduled to return to the Old Course at St. Andrews until 2030. This is no bad thing. 17 Jul 2022
Huggan: Was this really goodbye, Tiger?

Huggan: Was this really goodbye, Tiger?

So, was this goodbye? Or merely “see you later?” 16 Jul 2022
Huggan: LIV a little … but not too much

Huggan: LIV a little … but not too much

It isn’t often that golf administrators are seen to choke, but we might just be treated to such a sight (literally) at the conclusion of this 150th Open Championship. 16 Jul 2022
Final St. Andrews goodbye to the ‘Voice of Golf’, Peter Alliss

Final St. Andrews goodbye to the ‘Voice of Golf’, Peter Alliss

The “Voice of Golf” fell silent in December 2020, but Peter Alliss will never really die. 14 Jul 2022