The Grand Golf Club is the best on the Gold Coast, with a bushland setting and a tumbling landform paving the way for a series of dramatic holes where timber and water combine to perplex golfers.
What lesson does a golfer learn from spending 72 hours in the nation’s capital? Three days barely scratches the surface in this underappreciated golf destination.
The term ‘hidden gem’ is over-applied in golf-course circles. However, it fits when the discussion turns to Newcastle Golf Club as even most Novocastrians would be hard-pressed to describe where it is.
Geoff Ogilvy sadly won’t be at Winged Foot this September. That doesn’t stop him from owning an ironclad memory of the New York club and the details of his greatest triumph.
Minjee Lee on sibling rivalry, knowing her golf swing and chasing Majors and medals all while being Australia’s “Invisible Champion”. Interviewed by Steve Keipert
With outstanding and abundant bunkering, Woodlands looks, sounds and feels like a course befitting the Sandbelt moniker, regardless of your geographical definition of where it begins and ends.
We reveal the 25 layouts that take top turf conditioning to a whole new level and find out why the COVID-19 lockdown actually provided a timely ‘reset’ many courses so desperately needed.
Armed with more ranking data than ever before, for the first time Australian Golf Digest can reveal the 100 courses sitting directly behind our Top 100 Courses.
Our biennial ranking of the premier courses in the country is once again a celebration of the very best in Australian golf, just as it should be. Yet inside the local golf-club scene exists an intriguing realm of mistakes and maladies that Australian course architects know only too well.
The coronavirus pandemic has displayed the sickening side effect of exposing – even highlighting – the fractured nature of administration of the sport in Australia.
Australian Golf Digest
