Mathew Goggin, Tasmania’s best-known touring pro, has a new passion project: drawing more golfers to his hometown of Hobart courtesy of two new world-class courses.
If it’s world-class golf you’re after, two of the best new courses in the world lie in the north of New Zealand’s North Island. They lead the pack when it comes to our ranking of the best layouts ‘across the ditch’.
Elanora’s charmed run 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 settled.
Buhai is the third woman to claim the British and Australian Open titles in the same year after a nail-biting, one-stroke victory at Victoria Golf Club.
This week, in a rare opportunity to compete together, the Lees will be followed by a legion of family members, eager to watch the pair contend deep into the championship. Yet they also are savouring the rare chance to bounce off each other.
Lucas Herbert, by nature, is not one to be short on competitive motivation, yet at this week’s ISPS Handa Australian Open, the Bendigo professional has numerous sources from which to draw inspiration.
It is one of golf’s most-asked questions, but in December we’ll find answers at Kingston Heath and Victoria golf clubs. By Steve Keipert. Photography by Gary Lisbon
Multiple Australian Open fields will make for enhanced excitement and a better spectacle, even if there are some logistics to take care of. By Steve Keipert
The sun was out, the wind was down and the field was away.
Yet the 2002 Australian Open stopped not long after play started. Two decades on, we revisit the day Australian golf made world headlines for all the wrong reasons.
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