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Morri: Golf at Riviera is golf worth watching
Watching the play at Riviera this past week once again brought the role of the golf course in tournament play sharply into focus.
19 Feb 2024
Morri: Thoughts from left field
Aaah the Phoenix Open. What more can be said.
12 Feb 2024
Morri: Please applaud Shina Kanizawa for ‘not robbing the bank’
It struck while watching the third round of the Vic Open at the weekend that there is more to ‘the quality of the golf’ at a tournament than ‘ball hitting and putt holing’.
5 Feb 2024
Hayes: For compelling golf, matchplay is the answer
For all the magic of golf, it’s often lost on those not already converts to its charms and nuances.
3 Feb 2024
Morri: Social media done right
For all its faults (and there are many, as we know) social media does at least one thing better than ‘traditional’ media ever has and that is offer direct access to the thoughts of some of the game’s best proponents.
29 Jan 2024
Morri: Does driver hold the key?
It was a throwaway line from DP World Tour player Andy Sullivan in Dubai, but it was telling about the distance debate on many levels.
22 Jan 2024
Morri: Out of the mouths of babes …
With Christmas fast approaching the temptation when one writes a regular column is to cast one’s mind back over the 12 months just passed and run through some highlights and lowlights.
18 Dec 2023
Morri: Great golf for all
There will be a time and place to continue the debate about the merits of the mixed format of the Australian Opens. But now is not that time.
4 Dec 2023
Morri: Why we adore artists like Min Woo
The brilliant win by Min Woo Lee in Brisbane at the weekend reminded me of something often said by former touring pro turned course architect and fellow magazine columnist Mike Clayton.
27 Nov 2023
Morri: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
Some people apparently aren’t familiar with the saying ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’.
20 Nov 2023
Morri: The devil is in the details
More than once I’ve heard golf described as chess to other sports’ chequers and if you’ve ever tried to explain the game to a non-golfer the concept will resonate.
13 Nov 2023
Morri: Good for the body, great for the brain
We talk a lot about golf being great walking exercise and that’s true. But it’s more than just the body that gets a workout when you play a round.
6 Nov 2023
Morri: AAC a beautiful cleanser
What a refreshing and timely reminder the Asia-Pacific Amateur was of all things good about golf.
30 Oct 2023
Morri: It’s time to mix up the Cup
Vested interests and internal politics so often distract from the simplest answers facing the game and the fact the Presidents Cup is not already a mixed event might just be Exhibit A.
16 Oct 2023
Ogilvy: "We cared more about the money-list than world ranking"
If there is one thing that I have never really cared about in my career it is my world ranking at any particular moment in time.
10 Oct 2023
Morri: Argue for Oakleigh without the aggression
The temptation to attack those who favour closing Oakleigh Golf Course in Melbourne is understandable, but it is difficult to imagine how anything could be more counterproductive than to give in to it.
9 Oct 2023
Morri: Proving perceptions wrong for the sake of public golf
‘Golf courses are a tribute to white privilege. Turn it into something the whole community can use.’
2 Oct 2023
Morri: A more intimate, and arguably better, experience
It’s true of most things in life that for everything we gain we invariably give up something else. In the world of golf spectating, that thing is intimacy.
4 Sep 2023
Morri: Carner’s remarkable example of golf’s unique qualities
You don’t have to look far to find evidence of golf’s uniqueness among sports and this past week delivered another shining example.
28 Aug 2023
Morri: Let's give the World No.1 a headstart ... brilliant!
The handicapped Tour Championship is a stupid idea.
21 Aug 2023
Morri: Slumbers is a “voice of reason and wisdom”
What a breath of fresh air R&A CEO Martin Slumbers is.
14 Aug 2023
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