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Top-100 Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
Brian Slawnik and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design have long been unabashed fans of the Sandbelt, and of Commonwealth Golf Club in particular. When asked to redesign the course, the first thing Slawnik told members was that it’s already great and that RGD would approach the work as preservationists. What Slawnik, RGD and Commonwealth greens staff did since has reimagined and reinvigorated one of Australia’s great courses.
18 Jun 2025
Cleary: Crime and punishment the USGA way, but it limits the U.S Open
Once a year in their U.S Open, the United States Golf Association attempts to find the greatest exponent of driving straight, hacking out from long grass for luck and making knee-trembling pars. Their tourney. Their style. Viva la difference. But it makes for a limited and overly-penal style of golf, even if it is the intention, and even if it produced a wild and compelling Sunday, opines Matt Cleary.
16 Jun 2025
Course Review: Meadow Springs
Just an hour south of Perth, Meadow Springs Golf and Country Club offers an unforgettable golfing experience; its natural beauty, strategic design and welcoming atmosphere making it a must-play destination. Words and photography by Joel Innes.
13 Jun 2025
Feature Story: Oakmont Unleashed
The U.S Open returns to Oakmont Country Club for a record 10th time in the history of the championship, a venue the USGA clearly holds in high regard, with the belief it perfectly suits its premier event. Writer Garrett Johnston asked several players about the test Oakmont presents, how it is likely to play and what type of player will it favour.
12 Jun 2025
Ogilvy: U.S Open's toughness means testing limits
It has forever been the most controversial of the four major championships. Especially when the topic of conversation is course set-up.
12 Jun 2025
Column: The Hard Way Pays
Players breaking through in their 30s used to be as common as rain in spring.
12 Jun 2025
The Aussie invaders at Oakmont: we profile our half-dozen chances
Our man Paul Prendergast profiles the chances of the six Australians who will tee it up at Oakmont in this 125th U.S Open.
11 Jun 2025
Cleary: A LIV player can win the U.S Open, Brandel's off his head
With nine holes to play in the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, there was an old-fashioned two-horse war. It was like Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star at Moonee Valley in the 1986 W.S Cox Plate. Two mighty thoroughbreds, straining, fighting, charging home for the win. It was quite exciting.
11 Jun 2025
No escape: Fearsome Oakmont a brutal test of world's best
The U.S Open returns with all its trademark grit, glory and grind. Back at fearsome Oakmont, golf’s ultimate test will again separate the bold from the broken at a major where history looms large and every shot carries championship weight, writes Paul Prendergast.
10 Jun 2025
World Exclusive: Trump’s Indonesian Tee-off
Whether it’s politics, business or opinions, Donald Trump is always full-on, pushing boundaries and, it seems, usually getting what he wants. So, it is with the 17 golf courses in the Trump Golf portfolio, with its latest – and first in the Southern Hemisphere – now open in Indonesia. Like Trump himself and his modus operandi, it offers a no-compromise golf experience.
10 Jun 2025
The Aussies at the U.S Women’s Open
So, here we are, headed into the second women’s major of the year, the 80th U.S Women’s Open, to be held at Erin Hills in Wisconsin from Thursday night (AEST).
28 May 2025
Say her name: U.S Women's Open tip is in
She's the favourite for the U.S Women's Open. She's number two in the world. She may be the best player you've never heard of.
27 May 2025
Cleary: our mate Digs and a jock called Pikey
After tragic news about a pal from golf, Matt Cleary and his mates gathered at the club and did their best to make sense of it, and to honour their friend as best they could. They had a little help from a legend of the west.
26 May 2025
Cleary: PGA's a bludger of a major, and two-time major champion can't change my mind
Many people agree that holding three of four major championships in the United States, particularly one that invites 20 club professionals from that country, should not be a thing in these globalised times. One two-time major champion and legend of Australian golf does not agree, however.
19 May 2025
Cleary: Rory to Repeat at Happy Hunting Hollow
Our man Matt Cleary tipped him to win the Masters, and he's tipping him to win the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, too. Rory McIlroy has no more monkey on his back, is in the prime of a stellar, generational playing career, and, in the parlance of the great Australian mug-punter, is in ridiculous form.
15 May 2025
Ogilvy: All that really matters is what the ball does
Like just about every golfer, I suspect, I have spent my life searching for a better golf swing. It all started when I was very young, at a time when I was lucky enough to receive some vital lessons from great club professionals.
14 May 2025
Flashback: Elkington's 1995 PGA Championship triumph
Thirty years ago, Australia’s Steve Elkington etched his name into golfing history with a dramatic victory at the 1995 PGA Championship at Riviera Country Club.
14 May 2025
Feature Story: Familiar but fierce
Feature written by Garrett Johnston.
14 May 2025
Cleary: Lookin' at you, America. Spread the love and gift fourth major to the world
In Part Three of Matt Cleary's plea to the powers-that-be to confer major status on a different country's national Open each year on a rota, he declares that while it will be anathema to America - sorry, America - the PGA of America needs to relinquish major status of its PGA Championship and gift it to the world.
14 May 2025
The Aussies at the U.S PGA Championship
Quail Hollow in Charlotte is the stage for the 107th U.S PGA Championship, and there are seven Aussie hopefuls lining up in an attempt to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy, one of which has tasted victory around the regular tour layout once before.
13 May 2025
When a gin-slinging journo pal of Arnold Palmer's created golf's grand slam
The concept – some would describe it as a “construct” – of major championships, as we know them today, first gained traction in 1960, when Arnold Palmer was on his way to play the Open Championship at St Andrews after winning the Masters and U.S Open.
13 May 2025
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