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MIke Clayton
The Preview: Sandbelt Invitational
Monday signals the start of a brand new event in Australian golf. The Sandbelt Invitational, brainchild of Golf Australia magazine columnists Geoff Ogilvy and Mike Clayton, a hugely anticipated concept the world over.
16 Dec 2021
Inside Golf Australia January 2022
It’s here!
16 Dec 2021
Opinion: A week of celebration and disappointment
This week sets up as a celebration for Australian golf.
8 Dec 2021
Clayton, DeVries & Pont and Kruse Golf to advise Royal Perth
Clayton, DeVries & Pont (CDP) and Kruse Golf (KG) are delighted to announce that they have been jointly retained by the Royal Perth Golf Club of South Perth, Western Australia to author a long-term plan for its course and advise on prospective renovations thereafter.
1 Dec 2021
Morri: Disrupting professional golf
If a question is worth asking, the answer – infuriatingly – is almost always ‘it depends’. And so it is with professional golf and where its future might lie.
25 Oct 2021
Ogilvy behind new Sandbelt Invitational
When Golf Australia magazine columnist Geoff Ogilvy speaks, most listen. And the 2006 U.S. Open champion had the ear of the golfing world again on Tuesday when he announced a new tournament, The Sandbelt Invitational.
20 Oct 2021
Clayton: Hard golf doesn't always equal good golf
One of the game’s great misconceptions is to equate an arduous golf course or a particularly difficult hole with good golf.
8 Sep 2021
Tasmania: Golf Tourism’s Titan
It’s quite funny, really, that without one potato farmer taking an almighty risk, an entire state would almost certainly be without one of its strongest sources of tourism.
8 Sep 2021
CLAYTON: A Question of Strategy
Great golf holes afford players of all standards the opportunity to test their skills against the questions being asked by the design. How you answer those questions isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach.
27 Apr 2021
Opinion: A winning week for diversity
It is somewhat fitting that at a tournament and golf club not known for its diverse membership and inclusive policies for much of its history, that the diversity of golf took centre stage at the beginning and end of the Masters.
14 Apr 2021
CLAYTON: How Augusta could be better
Augusta National is the course on every golfer’s bucket list. But it’s evolution away from the original creation of Alister MacKenzie and Bob Jones has been to its detriment. Here’s how the home of the Masters could be an even better course.
6 Apr 2021
Morri: A little more conversation on Elvis
There’s no such thing as a ‘can’t-miss kid’. The golf history books are littered with those who were ordained the next Tiger or Jack or Greg Norman but who, for all sorts of reasons mostly unrelated to ability, never made it.
29 Mar 2021
Inside Golf Australia April 2021
One of the silver linings about last year’s coronavirus-delayed visit to Augusta is that we’re able to enjoy the Masters Tournament again just five months later.
18 Mar 2021
The Preview: The Players Series Sydney hosted by Braith Anasta
The second The Players Series pitting men and women against one another on scaled course setups for the same prize purse takes place this week at Bonnie Doon Golf Club in Sydney. Here is all you need to know.
2 Mar 2021
Inside Golf Australia March 2021
Aaron Baddeley turns 40 in March. But the two-time Australian Open winner and father of six believes his best golf is still in front of him.
18 Feb 2021
The Thing About Golf Podcast #36 - Mat Goggin
There isn’t much Mat Goggin hasn’t done in the game of golf, from Australian Amateur champion to professional tournament winner.
17 Feb 2021
The Preview: The Players Series Victoria hosted by Geoff Ogilvy
Local tournament golf continues in Victoria this week as the inaugural staging of The Players Series takes place at Rosebud Country Club. The new event series sees men and women tee it up together on scaled course setups for the same prize purse.
27 Jan 2021
Clayton, DeVries & Pont to design Tassie beach course
It has been nearly a decade in the making, but the much-anticipated Seven Mile Beach project in Hobart is one step closer to becoming a course with the appointment of a world class design team.
25 Jan 2021
Inside Royal Queensland
As Royal Queensland Golf Club’s centennial year drew to a close in 2020, one of the men who masterminded its rebirth 14 years ago offered some insights into the layout and addressed some misconceptions about the design.
18 Jan 2021
Join A Club: Sun City Country Club
Sun City Country Club is one of Western Australia’s premier layouts, being one of only ten to grab a place in Golf Australia’s most recent ranking of the Top-100 Courses in the nation.
7 Jan 2021
Join A Club: Curlewis Golf Club
Curlewis Golf Club is one of Australia’s most improved courses of the past decade, with its success coming on the back of years of “just getting by”.
18 Dec 2020
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