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Cleary: LIV Adelaide and the power of people
On a mild April afternoon in 2022, day three of LIV Adelaide at The Grange, the enigmatic, cosmopolitan final group of Talor Gooch, Pat Perez and Charl Schwartzel were followed down the 18th fairway by what looked like everybody on the property. It was a triumph for organisers. Greg Norman was vindicated. Because LIV Golf had arrived.
10 Feb 2025
Ogilvy: I’d like to see a series of global swings
This is the time of year when I get asked what I’d like to see happen in golf over the next 12 months.
5 Feb 2025
Review: Mt Compass Golf Course
Golf was born on flat, sandy land deemed unsuitable for any kind of agriculture. History, however, shows us that relatively flat sites can still produce great golf courses because of what lies beneath.
5 Feb 2025
Cleary: Medal Day? You need one for turning up
Golf is meant to be fun, right? Well, Medal Day, with the course setup at its hardest and every stroke counted, is not - much more often than not - fun. Indeed it can be like a four-day hike on the Kokoda Track without the sense of accomplishment, according to Matt Cleary.
3 Feb 2025
Review: Clearwater Golf Club
If you are a keen reader of Golf Australia magazine - print or digital - you’ll notice that the brilliance and understated beauty of the images that support these words might look familiar.
29 Jan 2025
19 Holes With... Damien Fleming
To say Damien Fleming has the golf bug would be to infer that the zombies in Shaun of the Dead had a touch of the flu ... as Golf Australia magazine discovered over an enjoyable hit at Yarra Yarra GC.
23 Jan 2025
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2025
Presenting a guide to the best golf courses in Australia which are open to the public, allowing you to book a tee time without needing a membership.
23 Jan 2025
International Travel: New kid on the block – Chhun On
What do you do when you’re the youngest and smallest kid on the block, but want to compete with – and maybe even beat – the big guys?
21 Jan 2025
Hill: Golf’s Biggest Events and Stars Delivered in 2024… thankfully
The 2024 golfing year produced some fantastic moments and some pandemonium in the most significant events.
20 Jan 2025
PGA Personal Lesson: Stop Hitting It Fat (and Thin)
PGA of Australia member and head teaching professional at Commonwealth Golf Club, Marcus Hakkinen, has a simple and effective drill for improving the quality of your ball-striking and eliminating the dreaded fat chunk
16 Jan 2025
Cleary: Tomorrow's Golf League starts today, and almost anything goes
Tomorrow's Golf League (TGL), the hybrid "real" and digital golf experience contested by teams in a tech-infused warehouse in Florida will kick off imminently, and, maybe, it will enamour Generation Next. Senior Writer Matt Cleary remains a tad sceptical, you could say.
8 Jan 2025
International Travel: Crusader Country
For a city which punches well above its weight on the elite sporting stage, the quality of golf on offer in Ōtautahi Christchurch also catches many by surprise; the region remaining largely untapped and underrated as a golfing destination.
19 Dec 2024
Green revelling in an opportunity to support Australian golf
Some of the most endearing images that you get to witness at each Sandbelt Invitational – aside from the magnificent holes, green complexes and native vegetation in every direction – are often the interactions between the veteran players and the up-and-comers playing not only the event, but Sandbelt golf for the first time.
17 Dec 2024
The Ace: Not seen, but heard, around the ‘Belt.
Daniel Gale will not be able to defend his Sandbelt Invitational title in 2024 and listening to him speak about it during the recent Australian PGA Championship, there would be none more disappointed about it than he.
16 Dec 2024
19 Holes With ... Clint Newton
The Jack Newton Celebrity Classic is a three-day golf tournament come Christmas party which for 45 years has raised millions for the late and great Jack Newton’s twin passions, diabetes research and junior golf. Following the man’s passing in 2022, the legacy is being carried forward by his son, Clint, among others in the Newton family. And Clint has a few tales to tell – and a legacy to create – of his own, as Matt Cleary found over 18 holes and a couple of beers at Shortees Golf complex in Sydney’s Terrey Hills.
12 Dec 2024
PGA Personal Lesson: the lost art of chipping with 5-iron
If you catch vision of Open Championships from the '60s and '70s, you'll see players of the day chipping onto greens with 4- and 5-irons. Chris Hynes, Head Teaching Professional at Sanctuary Lakes, calls it a lost art. And wants to bring it back. And, given its low margin for error and consistent results, particularly in the wind, you may wonder why you'd ever reach for lob-wedge again.
11 Dec 2024
Cleary: February beckons for standalone Australian Opens
Running the men's and women's Australian Opens concurrently has benefits for sponsors, television and fans. But, overall, interpreting the greater hive-mind of sports-loving Australians, it feels like the time has come to pull the pin on a bold experiment. And, with a blank slate and nothing set in stone contractually, our governing bodies should climax Australia's "Summer of Golf" in February with four world-class tournaments.
9 Dec 2024
We flocked to see them in our Summer of Golf, but are the Rippers Australia's golf team?
In the film Master And Commander, Russell Crowe says of HMS Surprise, “Though we be on the far side of the world, this ship is our home. This ship, is England.” At Royal Queensland and Kingston Heath, Ripper GC merchandise was about. But whether captain Cam Smith and his team is "Australia", floating around the world, taking prizes, representative of we the greater Australian sports-watching punterati, remains to be seen.
2 Dec 2024
Tour Tip: Secret to putting on fast multi-tiered greens
With the help of certified PGA professional and teaching pro, Michael Smyth we look at what to do in the situation 24-year-old Australian star-on-the-rise Steph Kyriacou finds herself in (image above).
2 Dec 2024
Column: You never tire of watching excellence in the flesh
On a bleak Melbourne afternoon, your resident writer saw a gap in the torrential downpour attempting to drown a resilient Kingston Heath on moving day at the Australian Open.
30 Nov 2024
Video Lesson: Sweep the floor when chipping on tight lies
This drill, demonstrated and explained here by PGA professional and Director of Instruction at Kingston Heath, Tom Corker, will teach you to use the sole of the club to make solid contact with the ball – without necessarily striking it first.
30 Nov 2024
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