Golf Features

Top-100 Spotlight: Curlewis GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Curlewis GC

It was a chilly autumn evening in 2015, yet there was a strange, aggressive heat in the air. 24 Feb 2022
Opinion: Aussie golf coming up trumps

Opinion: Aussie golf coming up trumps

What a week, and a bit, it has been in golf. 23 Feb 2022
Review: Nudgee Golf Club

Review: Nudgee Golf Club

With a Centenary year fast approaching, Brisbane’s Nudgee Golf Club is on the cusp of completing what is arguably the most exciting project in their long history. 23 Feb 2022
Morri: A week is a long time in professional golf

Morri: A week is a long time in professional golf

For a game that moves notoriously slowly it was a whirlwind weekend both on and off the course in the world of professional golf. 21 Feb 2022
Morri: Enjoy it or not, Phoenix isn’t attracting new golfers

Morri: Enjoy it or not, Phoenix isn’t attracting new golfers

There’s much I don’t like about the Phoenix Open and its 16th hole but I am aware those misgivings are personal bias and hold no more weight than those who subscribe to the opposing view. 14 Feb 2022
Opinion: Peninsula and Vic Open a perfect pair

Opinion: Peninsula and Vic Open a perfect pair

Pre-Covid, the Vic Open felt as if it may be a victim of its own success. 11 Feb 2022
Aussie golf 'Super' dogs

Aussie golf 'Super' dogs

It’s official. The golf course superintendents of Australia have gone to the dogs. Big dogs, little dogs, dogs of different breeds, dogs of mixed breeds, dogs of all shapes, sizes and colours. 9 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: The Eastern GC

Top-100 Spotlight: The Eastern GC

From the moment you drive through the gates and ease your way up the long driveway to the clubhouse, you can’t help but be struck by the splendour of the golfing landscape and its surrounds at The Eastern Golf Club. 9 Feb 2022
Morri: Trying to make sense of Saudi spend

Morri: Trying to make sense of Saudi spend

From Wikipedia: ‘Sportswashing is the practice of an individual, group, corporation, or nation-state using a major or prestigious international sport to improve its reputation, through hosting a sporting event, the purchase or sponsorship of sporting teams, or by participation in the sport itself.’ 7 Feb 2022
Morri: All slow play not created (or treated) equal

Morri: All slow play not created (or treated) equal

Golf is the most infuriating of games but golf commentary (of the social media variety, not the TV kind) trumps it. 31 Jan 2022
Morri: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

Morri: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

“If there weren’t a bunch of pros who didn’t like it we’d have done a poor job.” 24 Jan 2022
RANKING: Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2022

RANKING: Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2022

After two years of uncertainty brought by pandemic lockdowns and border closures, here is the most comprehensive ranking of the nation’s finest layouts. 24 Jan 2022
Morri: Add Royal Queensland to last week’s winners

Morri: Add Royal Queensland to last week’s winners

They only handed out two trophies but in truth there were three winners at this past weekend’s WPGA and Australian PGA Championships. 17 Jan 2022
Opinion: The best walk in tournament golf

Opinion: The best walk in tournament golf

Sure, Sunday has the excitement of deciding the winner and the three other tournament days proper have their charm. 11 Jan 2022
Morri: Time for a tee change

Morri: Time for a tee change

The year might be new but the arguments in golf are old and one of the most archaic raised its ugly head before 2022 was even 48 hours old. 10 Jan 2022
Opinion: Sandbelt Invitational spectacular, just don’t say the ‘P’ word

Opinion: Sandbelt Invitational spectacular, just don’t say the ‘P’ word

There is no such thing as perfect in golf. It simply doesn’t exist. 24 Dec 2021
Morri: Tiger’s return reminds us of his departure

Morri: Tiger’s return reminds us of his departure

One of the first things you learn as a cadet reporter is there are only six questions which make a story newsworthy: it is either the who, what, when, where, how or why of any given event. 20 Dec 2021
Ogilvy: ‘We will showcase the Melbourne Sandbelt, something we haven’t really done for the last 20 years.’

Ogilvy: ‘We will showcase the Melbourne Sandbelt, something we haven’t really done for the last 20 years.’

First things first. When my fellow Golf Australia columnist, Mike Clayton, mentioned to me that we should try to set up what has since become the ‘Sandbelt Invitational’, we were both aware that this was not a new idea. 17 Dec 2021
Morri: Golf at its cruellest

Morri: Golf at its cruellest

“It’s a hard job, but it’s not a real job” – Mike Clayton, circa 1997. 13 Dec 2021
Review: Maroochy River GC

Review: Maroochy River GC

Maroochy River Golf Club is one of the great success stories in recent Australian golfing history. 13 Dec 2021
Opinion: A week of celebration and disappointment

Opinion: A week of celebration and disappointment

This week sets up as a celebration for Australian golf. 8 Dec 2021