Since relocating from suburban Doncaster to the outskirts of Melbourne in the Yarra Valley 11 years ago, Eastern Golf Club has built a new home for itself and garnered a renewed spirit – along with new golf courses.
Aussies of the month: Women in Europe BIG things are happening during the northern summer for Australia’s female golfers. Victorian amateur Jazy Roberts [above] claimed the prestigious English Women’s Stroke Play Championship, with the evergreen Nadene Gole [above] continuing her dominance of the over-50s amateur circuit by successfully defending the senior edition. Roberts rode a Read more…
AFL star Levi Ashcroft still manages to weave golf into his hectic footy schedule. We all know of or are part of a golf group that gathers on a regular basis to compete for a jacket. It might be blue, brown, another shade or possibly multi-coloured. Some groups are even audacious enough to make theirs Read more…
Is Turnberry on the R&A’s radar for The Open at all? Australian golfers rightfully have a soft spot for Turnberry and the Scottish resort’s tremendous Ailsa course. It was there on Scotland’s west coast that Greg Norman raised the claret jug 40 Julys ago, while nationality and patriotism evaporated as the world cheered on Tom Read more…
The impact turned out to be immediate. Storied Huntingdale – arguably the most visible of Melbourne’s Sandbelt courses, thanks to its years of hosting the Australian Masters – is back. A widely praised renovation of the vaunted layout by OCM Golf has revived a Sandbelt favourite and brought the course to its highest position on Read more…
Aussie of the month: Scott Hend Scott Hend isn’t afraid of air travel. In his long career, the veteran touring pro has flown across the world on a whim wherever a start has popped up, yet in his post-50 career, the close geography of the PGA Tour Champions in America still holds high appeal for Read more…
Aussie of the month: Australian Opens The east-coast stranglehold on our national championship is over. And not a moment too soon. Golf Australia’s announcement on May 7 that Adelaide will host at least one of the two Australian Opens each year from 2028-2034 snaps a far-too-lengthy streak of hosting domination by Sydney and Melbourne golf Read more…
As competition for a place in our main Top 100 Golf Courses ranking becomes more intense, it’s even more so for those courses ranked 101st to 200th, a.k.a. “The Next 100”.
We’ve known unofficially for several weeks now, but overnight it became rubber-stamped by the United States Golf Association: Adam Scott is officially part of the 2026 US Open field and will therefore tee it up in his 100th consecutive major championship from June 18-21.
Appraising golf courses is like critiquing art – one golfer’s Picasso is another’s kindergarten-level finger painting. Which is why we do our best to explain the process.
Australian Golf Digest
