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Cleary: Is it time for the men's and women's Australian Opens to stand alone?
The Australian Open and the Australian Women's Open will again run concurrently this year, taking place at Kingston Heath and Victoria golf clubs from November 28. And for sure we'll get along and tune in. But are both tournaments lesser for it?
20 Oct 2024
Review: Links Lady Bay
One of golf’s most appealing attributes is the unpredictable nature of the game.
16 Oct 2024
Cleary: Build it and they will come? No need - the venue for every Australian Open is already here
Every year, about this time of year, ahead of our ‘Summer of Golf’, players, punters and media pundits highlight, bemoan, call-it-what-you-will, the lack of international star power attendant at our showpiece ‘major’ golf tournaments, the Australian Open and the Australian PGA Championship.
14 Oct 2024
Kazuma Kobori: Behind the Magic Wand
It is an underlying theme throughout this story; if you ever get the privilege of watching New Zealand’s Kazuma Kobori go about his work on the golf course, one abundant skill sticks out above the other traits of his game. His putting.
8 Oct 2024
Viva Las Vegas: Join Golf Australia magazine's Matt Cleary on a golf and rugby league spectacular
On March 1 of 2025, our Senior Writer, Matt Cleary, who moonlights as a golf tour operator, will be hosting a group of like-minded types in Las Vegas where they'll play some of the most spectacular Nevada desert golf and attend the rugby league season opener at Allegiant Stadium. And you may join his party for the party.
2 Oct 2024
CLEARY: Underdogs versus Overlords keeps Presidents Cup compelling
The writer arched an eyebrow, stroked his goat-beard and rested the butt end of a pencil in the groove between his upper lip and lower nose, the area he learned today is called a ‘philtrum’, and wrote off the Presidents Cup.
30 Sep 2024
Mild Mike: Can Weir whip local fans into (Canadian version of) frenzy?
The Internationals have several large obstacles to overcome if they're to win the 2024 Presidents Cup, notably history, language and cultural differences, and, of course, their all-powerful opponents, the United States. Yet, as Nick O'Hern and Ian Baker-Finch explain to Golf Australia magazine, Royal Montreal is a great tournament venue, and team captain Mike Weir could be just the man to whip the locals into a frenzy (or at least a Canadian version thereof).
26 Sep 2024
Lytham and Secret Plans: How the International team sacked an Aussie golf legend
The Presidents Cup kicked off in 1994 with a 20-12 win to the USA at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia. Within two years, the International team had sacked their captain, Australian golf legend, David Graham. Nearly 30 years later, some of the players regret it still.
26 Sep 2024
19 Holes With ... Damien Oliver
In the first iteration of Golf Australia magazine‘s spanking new “19 Holes with … ” segment, Matt Cleary had a round with champion jockey Damien Oliver at Commonwealth Golf Club.
25 Sep 2024
International Rescue: Can the Aussies save the Presidents Cup?
Once again the International team will be relying on the Aussie stars to supply the bulk of the team spirit in their war against the Americans in the Presidents Cup. This isn’t specifically Australia’s fight to take up, but it’s one we’re in, whether it still captivates the fans or not.
25 Sep 2024
Video Lesson: honing the feel of a repeatable putting stroke
Head Professional at Monash Country Club in Sydney's north, Torie Blakemore demonstrates a simple drill to hone the feel of a repeatable putting stroke.
23 Sep 2024
CLEARY: When breakfast beers in a corporate Ambrose spawned a great revelation
Following another 31 points in a stableford competition, another four hours swimming in the viscous soup of competitive juice, I made a half-joking post-round quip to our teaching pro: mate, you don’t do psychiatry services, do you?
23 Sep 2024
Gear: adidas Summer Fashion
Summer is just around the corner, meaning more sunshine is coming. The longer days spell more golf, too. Here is all the latest fashion from adidas, which will keep you comfortable, cool and looking good this summer.
19 Sep 2024
CLEARY: PGA or LIV, major or minor, every pro golf tournament is an exhibition
One of the sledges about LIV Golf is that it’s nothing more than an exhibition of highly-paid players, out there, playing for nothing, writhing in money, what else could possibly be their motivation, it’s meaningless, an aberration, something-something, and so on. And people, in manifold ways, can make a case.
16 Sep 2024
Feature Story: War of the Worlds
With the majors season over for another year and the Paris Olympics run and won, the focus on significant events turns to the Solheim Cup, kicking off this week.
11 Sep 2024
CLEARY: Golf addiction explained by a round on the Sandbelt
And so to Commonwealth GC on the famous Melbourne ‘Sandbelt’ where one may only take a good-sized divot to create a world-class bunker complex, and where we enjoyed a round with the great Nick O’Hern, the great Damien Oliver, and the not as great though if he continues on his current career trajectory may well be, Lukas Michel, who works with Mike Clayton’s architecture mob and is one of Australia’s gun amateur golfers. And it was a bloody great day out.
9 Sep 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: The Lakes Golf Club
When you roll through the gates at premier golf clubs, anticipating what you are about to experience is a thrill that never wanes.
9 Sep 2024
Golf Road Trip: Blue Mountains and Beyond
The Three Sisters rock formations are famous the world over, but the Blue Mountains are so much more than that. For example, there’s a lot of super-fun and challenging golf to be found along the Great Western Highway for a perfect weekend getaway starting from Springwood on the edge of the range to Bathurst and Orange further out west.
4 Sep 2024
Review: Gerringong Golf Club
With panoramic ocean views from every corner of the layout, this always-improving course on NSW’s South Coast is quirky, challenging and – most importantly – a lot of fun to play.
4 Sep 2024
CLEARY: Love, loss and acceptance on a journey towards bogey-golf
And so, another Saturday, another round of bogey-golf, another afternoon of beers and gaffes and laffs with the usual suspects at The Club, for truly the middle-aged man’s needs are simple and few; give us beer and freedom and golf in God’s Country, and we’ll pay the bills forever.
2 Sep 2024
Column: Cinderella Ko scripting her own epilogue
New Zealand's Lydia Ko has always said she won't play much high-level golf past the age of 30 and wants to go out on her own terms while loving what she is doing.
26 Aug 2024
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