Australia’s two-time Major champion on looking after golf’s old boys, picking a winner at Shinnecock Hills, and his final-round 67 to win the 1981 US Open at Merion – still regarded as one of the greatest final rounds in the event’s history.
With more than 250 courses in his portfolio, Peter Thomson carved an illustrious career in golf-course design. We unlock the links lover’s design philosophy and handpick his greatest work.
The charmed run of Elanora Country Club within our biennial ranking was broken only by the club’s request to sit out the first three rankings of the new millennium while major course work was conducted and allowed to settle.
FOUR Australians in the $US67 million FedEx Cup playoffs is the smallest representation we’ve had since the US PGA Tour’s finals series was launched in 2007. But it seems a case of quality over quantity as Jason Day (8), Cameron Smith (16), Marc Leishman (24) and Adam Scott (40) are all in healthy positions on Read more…
Natadola Bay, host of this month’s Fiji International, features some of the most breathtaking holes in the South Pacific. It’s just one of the many reasons to visit this idyllic part of the world.
One of Sydney’s oldest private golf clubs has reinvented itself with a contemporary makeover. Once the new clubhouse is fully operational in early spring, Strathfield Golf Club will be the envy of most clubs in Sydney’s metropolitan region.
Lanto Griffin’s best finish is a T-12 and hegot my card by finishing 22nd on the Web.com Tour last October. Five months earlier, he’d made $4,800 through 10 events and was thinking about quitting.
Located in Connolly, Joondalup Resort includes 27 holes designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, and an adjacent resort that is also set up to hold large weddings and corporate functions.
Golf-club memberships include golfers from assorted backgrounds and all walks of life. Yet from the variation often emerges several parallel personalities at each club. How many do you recognise?
By Evin Priest – US PGA Tour editor Australian youngster Grant Booth is putting the finishing touches on preparation ahead of his US PGA Tour debut at next week’s Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada. The 22-year-old has flown under the radar relative to other star amateurs based in Australia, but don’t worry – he was Read more…
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