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Feature story: Open for the taking
There is no greater opportunity for a golfer to etch their name into folklore than winning a major championship at the Old Course.
21 Aug 2024
Feature story: Welcome home to St Andrews
The Women’s Open returns to the Old Course for 2024. We are talking the home of golf. Where the game began. Simple as. The best stage in the world for the best players in the world. It is how it’s meant to be.
21 Aug 2024
Our experts agree: Aussie chances abound in wide open Women's Open
The vagaries of Scottish weather, the experience and form of the players, and simple luck of the draw have all made for a particularly open field at the Women's Open Championship which tees off on Thursday at the Old Course at St Andrews.
20 Aug 2024
Travel: Highlands Swing
Every now and then a newspaper will trot out an article quoting academics and professionals advocating for the four-day working week.
19 Aug 2024
CLEARY: A round of golf destroyed by Gozer the Gozerian
If golf can produce one thing it’s memes. And there’s a pretty cool one going around about the contrasting emotions of a round of golf before one tees off and after one putts in.
19 Aug 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: The Brisbane Golf Club
Founded in the late 19th century, Brisbane’s oldest golf club boasts an honour board adorned with the names of all-time greats who have won club and significant amateur events, including the likes of Norman Von Nida and Frank Phillips.
14 Aug 2024
CLEARY: How Caddyshack can save a golfer's mind
It was following another Saturday stableford competition, another boulevard of broken dreams, with sublime mixed with ridiculous, that I realised I needed the tough love and wisdom of the greatest film of all time.
12 Aug 2024
CLEARY: Is this the worst thing you can do on a golf course?
Is this the greatest crime on a golf course? No. You could cheat in the Wednesday stableford competition. You could tear up the greens on a Suzuki GSX-R600. You could wear denim jeans. But! It is one of the worst things. It is in my top-five Pet Hates with a bullet. And it needn't bloody well be.
1 Aug 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: The Heritage Golf & Country Club: Henley Course
The first time I played the Henley Course at The Heritage Golf & Country Club, I got lost heading to the 1st tee.
31 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Hit a stinger into the wind
Head Teaching Professional at Long Reef Golf Club in Sydney, Michael Infanti, offers up a quick tip on how to successfully penetrate a prevailing breeze.
30 Jul 2024
CLEARY: Zed's dead but LIV lives, one year on from predicted doom
Unlike Zed who is dead, LIV Golf is still kicking and Greg Norman remains chief executive despite a proposal that he be "terminated”.
27 Jul 2024
CLEARY: Tiger Woods isn't done and Monty can eat crow
For reasons known only to the high priests of nomenclature, the collective noun for a group of mongoose is a 'band'. And that's what was stampeding over Tiger Woods' grave as he posted 79-77 to miss the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
21 Jul 2024
Feature Story: Golf Empowered
To give someone a chance. In some instances, a second chance. To see the similarities, not the differences. To understand we are all connected in some way through our humanity and to foster that connection. This is inclusion in action. And in golf, it lives in Empower Golf.
19 Jul 2024
Opinion: Creativity and chance make the Open great
There are too many fantastic aspects of the Open Championship to pen in one column.
18 Jul 2024
Playing With… Callaway Chrome Tour Triple Track Balls
Callaway's Chrome Tour Triple Track golf balls provide a fantastic feel from tee to green but really come into their own when lining up putts.
18 Jul 2024
Our Experts Tip the Open Championship
Warning bookmakers, punters and the world's greatest golfers: Golf Australia magazine's crack stable of top experts - top stable of crack experts? Now, now, none of your cheek - have submitted their tips for this 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon. And, let's just say, Rory McIlroy may thank us not at all.
17 Jul 2024
Let them cook: the six Aussie chances at Troon
Australians have won more Open Championships than any other major title. Ten times our nation has supped from the Auld Claret Jug. And, starting Thursday, in the 152nd iteration of the oldest golf tournament in the world, there are another six men with a red hot shot.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Make putts with money
Keep your head down, the putter head square, and putt for dough with dough using these two simple drills performed by Cypress Lakes' Head Golf Professional and PGA of Australia member, Scott Cubis.
17 Jul 2024
Column: Remember who we are dealing with
You see it far too often and at far too many junior golf tournaments, practice facilities and in other sports as well. This means it is probably happening in the car ride home or at the dinner table, which is even more concerning.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Chipping to a tee, with a tee
Many golfers, as soon as they’re over the ball and about to chip, have it in their heads to “lift” the golf ball into the air.
17 Jul 2024
Feature story: This is Royal Troon
This week The Open returns to Royal Troon for the 10th time across its 152-year history. While not as popular with the tourists as some of the other glamour courses across Scotland, this layout’s claim to fame is the mental challenge it presents to those brave enough to take it on.
16 Jul 2024
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