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The Thing About Golf Podcast #80 – Stephen Allan

The Thing About Golf Podcast #80 – Stephen Allan

A golfer can only beat the field assembled on any given week under whatever conditions are present at the time and that’s exactly what Stephen Allan did at the 2002 Australian Open at Victoria Golf Club. 30 Nov 2022
Mum’s breast cancer fight inspiring Herbert’s Open chase

Mum’s breast cancer fight inspiring Herbert’s Open chase

Lucas Herbert has never lacked the determination required to succeed in professional golf. 29 Nov 2022
Smith has unfinished business at Aussie Open

Smith has unfinished business at Aussie Open

With one box ticked by winning the Australian PGA Championship, Cameron Smith has arrived in Melbourne looking to add his first Stonehaven Cup to a bulging trophy cabinet. 29 Nov 2022
Karrie’s Open Road

Karrie’s Open Road

The Women’s Australian Open and its greatest champion, five-time winner Karrie Webb, were born in the same year, 1974. Destiny perhaps? It just might be, for the stories of both have been intertwined from that time. 29 Nov 2022
Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Morri: Colosseum a grim reminder of fractured golf’s fragile future

Sometimes the most interesting things historians have to say are not about the past but the future. 28 Nov 2022
Holiday at Home: South of the Swan

Holiday at Home: South of the Swan

When you have been sitting on a plane for two hours, the first movie has been watched, you’re into your second in-flight snack and the flight tracker map shows you’re not quite halfway, there is a realisation Perth is a long way away. 17 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #79 – Tony Blackburn

The Thing About Golf Podcast #79 – Tony Blackburn

Can golf be more than just a game? 100 percent yes, according to our guest on Episode 79 of The Thing About Golf. 16 Nov 2022
Chip-in for a cancer-free future

Chip-in for a cancer-free future

The stats are sobering. It’s estimated 1.2 million Australians are currently living with cancer. In 2021 alone, 150,782 people received a cancer diagnosis … that’s more than 400 per day. 9 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #78 – Nicolas Colsaerts

The Thing About Golf Podcast #78 – Nicolas Colsaerts

From an early age Nicolas Colsaerts knew he was good. Not in a cocky way, just an acknowledgement he could do things with a golf ball others couldn’t. 2 Nov 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #77 – Jackie Newton & Kathie Shearer

The Thing About Golf Podcast #77 – Jackie Newton & Kathie Shearer

Jackie Newton and Kathie Shearer have been staunch friends since the early 1970’s when they met and married two of Australia’s finest golfers, Jack Newton and Bob Shearer. 19 Oct 2022
Inside Golf Australia November 2022

Inside Golf Australia November 2022

Adam Scott has announced he is coming home to contest Australia’s biggest tournaments this summer. 13 Oct 2022
Golf added to Commonwealth games for 2026

Golf added to Commonwealth games for 2026

Australian Golf has welcomed the exciting news that golf will appear in a Commonwealth Games for the first time when the Games come to Victoria in 2026. 5 Oct 2022
Inside Golf Australia October 2022

Inside Golf Australia October 2022

With Australia’s most exciting summer of tournament golf just around the corner we talk to the next wave of rising stars, including Louis Dobbelaar, Jeneath Wong, Jeffrey Guan, as well as our latest world champion, six-year-old Zac Wolfe. 15 Sep 2022
Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

Your ultimate Murray River golf guide

It begins as a trickle in the Australian Alps and winds northwest forming the border between NSW and Victoria before flowing into South Australia then heading south and, ultimately, out to sea. 10 Aug 2022
So-called expert golf tips for this week

So-called expert golf tips for this week

It is time for the so-called experts to have one last roll of the dice to claim another major. Here are their picks for the AIG Women's Open winner, top Aussie and outsider. Plus, PGA, DP World and Asian Tour tips. 3 Aug 2022
Morri: Northcote’s moment of truth

Morri: Northcote’s moment of truth

Sometimes, it feels as though golf exists simultaneously in parallel universes. 25 Jul 2022
Mixed signals from Tiger's first Open practice round

Mixed signals from Tiger's first Open practice round

Tiger Woods has played a full 18-hole practice round on the eve of a major for the first time in 2022, as he prepares for the 150th Open Championship starting in St. Andrews later this week. 11 Jul 2022
Opinion: No matter what, Norman deserved Open party invite

Opinion: No matter what, Norman deserved Open party invite

My daughter came walking through the door, teary and inconsolable. Of the dozen or so girls in her class, she was the only one not invited to an upcoming birthday party. 10 Jul 2022
Greg Norman cops 150th Open celebrations snub

Greg Norman cops 150th Open celebrations snub

When a host of former Open winners take to St. Andrews’ Old Course to celebrate the 150th staging of the championship, Greg Norman will be a glaring omission from the festivities. 10 Jul 2022
The Thing About Golf Podcast #69 – Jaime Diaz

The Thing About Golf Podcast #69 – Jaime Diaz

Technically, writing is just the putting together of words to form sentences. However, like golf, that undersells by quite a margin the gift some have for it. 29 Jun 2022
Norman accuses PGA Tour of ‘deafening’ hypocrisy

Norman accuses PGA Tour of ‘deafening’ hypocrisy

Greg Norman has accused the PGA Tour of "deafening hypocrisy" following the backlash to his LIV Golf Invitational Series. 20 Jun 2022