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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
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.
1 Mar 2025
Top-100 Spotlight: St Andrews Beach
Over the course of the past three decades Tom Doak has risen to become an eminent figure in the world of golf course architecture, having sculpted some of the most notable layouts globally.
17 Aug 2023
Inside Golf Australia June 2023
Masters Champion and World No.1 Jon Rahm will be one of the favourites to win the U.S. Open Championship, which we preview on its return to Los Angeles after a 75-year absence in the July issue of Golf Australia Magazine.
18 May 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: New South Wales GC
There are only a few courses scattered across the globe that can rival New South Wales for presenting such an array of fascinating and spectacularly natural seaside holes.
19 Oct 2022
Clayton: The brilliance of the Old Course
Peter Thomson long argued The Old Course at St. Andrews was the game’s most important course and all others are mere copies.
12 Jul 2022
The Preview: The National PGA Classic
Added to the PGA Tour of Australasia schedule after the cancellation of the New Zealand Open, this week’s The National PGA Classic will be played Tuesday to Friday to avoid clashing with the majority of the play from Augusta National.
4 Apr 2022
The National set to host new ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia in April
The Tom Doak designed Gunnamatta Course at The National Golf Club will play host to a new tournament on the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia from April 5-8.
7 Mar 2022
The Preview: adidas Junior 6s Tour – Concord
The adidas Junior 6s Tour is almost at its conclusion for the season, that has undergone date shuffling like the professional circuits at the hands of the pandemic. On Thursday, Ewan Porter’s brainchild heading to Concord Golf Club.
2 Feb 2022
The Preview: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open
Some people hate the word ‘penultimate’ but it is the only way to describe this week’s Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open.
9 Nov 2021
Genesis Scottish Open to return to the Renaissance Club
The European Tour and PGA Tour today announced the Genesis Scottish Open will return to the Renaissance Club, in East Lothian, for the fourth consecutive year from July 7-10, 2022.
3 Nov 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
The Preview: abrdn Scottish Open
Arguably the strongest field on the European Tour of 2021 takes to The Renaissance Club in North Berwick for this week’s Rolex Series abrdn Scottish Open. Here is all you need to know about the final tune-up for The Open Championship, including who and how to watch, Aussies in the field and course details.
6 Jul 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
NSW Open an outstanding success at Concord
A new venue, increased spectator facilities & access, player satisfaction, and a bumper crowd have combined to make the 2021 Golf Challenge NSW Open one of Golf NSW's most successful championships in recent years.
1 Apr 2021
The Preview: Golf Challenge NSW Open
The conclusion of the wraparound 2020/21 PGA Tour of Australasia season is upon us, as the NSW Open takes place at Concord Golf Club. From the course, players to watch and how to watch the event, here is all you need to know.
23 Mar 2021
USGA adds to world-leading Dye collection
The United States Golf Association (USGA), at the invitation of Crooked Stick Golf Club members Joe and Marcia Luigs, along with Tony Pancake, the club’s director of golf, has acquired a selection of artefacts and ephemera from the estate of Pete and Alice Dye.
18 Mar 2021
The Preview: Vivint Houston Open
The PGA Tour returns to US soil this week for the final Masters tune-up, as the Houston Open welcomes the circuit’s first fans since the cancelled Players Championship. Here is all you need to know, including details of the host course designed by Tom Doak with help from Brooks Koepka.
3 Nov 2020
Top-100 Spotlight: St Andrews Beach
It began as a concept for a private member-only golf course in the heart of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, but a significant chain of events has seen it evolve into one of the best public access layouts in the nation.
2 Nov 2020
Course Design: Beyond COVID
From the golf courses played on the game’s biggest pro Tours to interesting short courses and the public layouts in our biggest urban centres, the architectural quality of those layouts in a post-COVID golfing world will be important for the game and the environment.
7 Oct 2020
The Preview: Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open
The European Tour moves to Scotland this week for the resumption of its Rolex Series at the Scottish Open. With plenty of big names in the field and significant money on offer, can one of the six Aussies break our 25-year drought?
29 Sep 2020
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