How to get children to fall in love with golf at first sight? It’s time-consuming and expensive but golf administrators are starting to reap rewards with introductory programs. Plus, we rate the best courses to introduce beginners to the game.
A year since a gaping hole was left in his life, Sydney professional Ewan Porter is about to fulfil a long-held dream to stage a junior golf tournament and memorialise his late father.
With threats of closure continuing to haunt Australian courses on public land, we examine what privately owned clubs are doing to ensure their own long-term survival.
When it opened in 1993, Millbrook Resort was a bit of a novelty. A deer farm had been transformed into a thoroughly modern golf course. The farm’s homestead was converted into a restaurant complemented by luxurious lodgings, all in a spectacular alpine location just outside Queenstown. The resort golf phenomenon had finally come to New Zealand.
With such quality and variety of golf balls available on the market, how is it possible to decide what’s best for you? We spoke to manufacturers, retailers and professionals for their take. And if you’ve never thought about being ‘ball fitted’, you soon will.
An Australian invention has captivated the local turfgrass industry. Its ability to create ‘nanobubbles’ is being hailed as a game-changer that will revolutionise golf-course maintenance around 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.
Ocean Dunes is one of the southernmost great golf courses on the planet. Undoubtedly, it would baulk at the suggestion it’s riding on the coattails of a highly credentialed King Island neighbour.
There’s a certain mystique about The Hills, the exclusive private golf club on the outskirts of Queenstown. That allure is set to grow now the club is allowing visitors the opportunity to savour a world-class golf experience.
She came, she saw, she conquered. Brooke Henderson braved the elements and walked away from Auckland’s Windross Farm Golf Course with the MCKAYSON New Zealand Women’s Open.
It was a 20-year-old phenom who made the big move in round three at the MCKAYSON New Zealand Women’s Open. Unfortunately for local fans it was Canada’s Brooke Henderson rather than Lydia Ko that fired a superb 67.
Belen Mozo plundered the Windross Farm layout with eight birdies and a spectacular ace for an eight-under 64 on day two of the MCKAYSON New Zealand Women’s Open.
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