Golf Features

Morri: The journey provides tournament golf’s intrigue

Morri: The journey provides tournament golf’s intrigue

You could drive yourself mad thinking about the ‘what ifs’ in golf. 19 Apr 2022
Morri: Thai teen phenom excites in more ways than one

Morri: Thai teen phenom excites in more ways than one

Making predictions in this game is a dangerous pastime. The history books are littered with ‘can’t miss’ kids that missed and the list grows longer each year. 11 Apr 2022
Opinion: The beauty of the anti-Augusta

Opinion: The beauty of the anti-Augusta

There is nothing quite like Masters week. 7 Apr 2022
Masters: Golf's boulevarde of broken dreams

Masters: Golf's boulevarde of broken dreams

It could be called the ‘Boulevarde of Broken Dreams’. Instead, it’s known as Amen Corner – a (as of 2022) 1,185-yard stretch of golfing heaven that can be hell for the world’s best players. 6 Apr 2022
Huggan: The Masters is far from perfect, but the golf always wins

Huggan: The Masters is far from perfect, but the golf always wins

More than three decades have passed since my first visit to Augusta National Golf Club. The first of Nick Faldo’s three victories in 1989 was my maiden Masters. And yes, I was excited. 5 Apr 2022
Morri: ‘Why is there no Women’s Masters?’

Morri: ‘Why is there no Women’s Masters?’

What a show the talented young women put on at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur at the weekend. 4 Apr 2022
Morri: Aussie Amateur by name only

Morri: Aussie Amateur by name only

The professionalisation of elite amateur golf in this country becomes complete this week when the top finishers at the Australian Amateur Championship will be paid prizemoney for the first time. 28 Mar 2022
Exclusive: New future of the Australian Open

Exclusive: New future of the Australian Open

A significant change in Australian golf’s biggest tournament occurred in 2021 without much fanfare or notice. But it has significant repercussions and possibly signals a very different men’s Australian Open in the future. 24 Mar 2022
Morri: Less for pros, more for the rest of us

Morri: Less for pros, more for the rest of us

Less distance for pros and elite amateurs but more for those who need it. That looks to be the trade off the R&A and USGA are seeking as they inch ever closer to a roll back of distance at the top levels of the game. 21 Mar 2022
Travel: The Road to Rocky

Travel: The Road to Rocky

In a region of Queensland perhaps best known for seemingly endless fields of sugar cane that occasionally make way for beef grazing lands and lush rainforests, there are eight golf courses to enjoy when you’re not spotting whales or soaking up the tropical sun. 18 Mar 2022
The USGA and R&A update areas of interest relating to distance

The USGA and R&A update areas of interest relating to distance

The USGA and The R&A today released updated areas of interest and research topics on hitting distance in golf. 17 Mar 2022
Hayes: Constant rain can’t stop Concord

Hayes: Constant rain can’t stop Concord

Stories about rain anywhere from Eden to Gympie this month need to be tempered with a heartfelt acknowledgement of the grief and torment confronting thousands of Aussies. 16 Mar 2022
Ogilvy: “Par is just a line in the sand …”

Ogilvy: “Par is just a line in the sand …”

Late last year I spent some time watching two events on television. It was quite a contrast. 16 Mar 2022
Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Golf courses are lots of things to lots of people and ranking them in some sort of rational order is fraught given the emotions golf courses engender are not always rational. 15 Mar 2022
Morri: TPS vs. TPC

Morri: TPS vs. TPC

They could hardly be further apart in golf’s pecking order but in almost every way you could make the case that the TPS Hunter Valley is a better and more important ad for golf than the game’s richest tournament, The Players. 14 Mar 2022
Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

The wine can wait – a taste for golf will take visitors to this established and vastly improved Hunter Valley icon. 11 Mar 2022
Dustin Johnson explains SGL rejection

Dustin Johnson explains SGL rejection

Dustin Johnson has addressed his reported interest in the Super Golf League for the first time since affirming his commitment to the PGA Tour in a statement last month. 10 Mar 2022
Huggan: Sawgrass’ finish doesn’t live up to the hype

Huggan: Sawgrass’ finish doesn’t live up to the hype

This is difficult for me. As someone who leans left politically – here a good fit for anyone who deals with professional golfers as much as I do – this is a tough thing to admit. 10 Mar 2022
Morri: The Players Series reinforces value of public golf

Morri: The Players Series reinforces value of public golf

What did the rain shortened TPS at Bonne Doon at the weekend have to do with making the case for funding public golf? 7 Mar 2022
Morri: Good for the soul

Morri: Good for the soul

Later this week we will release episode 60 of Golf Australia Magazine’s The Thing About Golf podcast and there is much to chew on from our guest, Sandy Jamieson. 28 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Warrnambool GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Warrnambool GC

It seems that every time Marc Leishman plays his way into contention in a tournament, his home town of Warrnambool, on Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast about three hours’ drive west of Melbourne, rates some kind of mention. 25 Feb 2022