News that Royal Queensland Golf Club has received government approval to use its returned parcel of land to develop a new short course continues a welcome trend in course architecture.
The dreams of ‘10,000-plus’ aspiring PGA Tour Champions players were shattered this week with the circuit’s Player Advisory Council (PAC) voting to eliminate its annual qualifying tournament.
This week’s Ryder Cup is a good time for non-Americans and non-Europeans to pause and remember the Ryder Cup-like events that have shamelessly copied the concept.
Murray River golf courses, while attractive to tour and fun to play, do tend to follow a certain design script. When Black Bull Golf Course opened 10 years ago, it broke the rules and moved away from narrow, treelined runways and instead used its lakeside location to cultivate a larger, links-style course where the breezes Read more…
Forged by fire: The opening of the rebuilt clubhouse at Eastern Golf Club in Victoria’s Yarra Valley closes an unwanted chapter in the club’s history as grand plans lie ahead.
Team golf adds a layer to the game that cannot be matched by playing for yourself For all of golf’s solitudinal ways, nothing fires us up more than the sense of playing for someone other than ourselves. I love a quiet round playing alone, but I’d hate for every golf experience to be solo. And Read more…
The story of Travis Smyth, our best performer on the Asian Tour the past four seasons, illustrates the options for Australians on ‘stepping-stone tours’
The par-3 third at Narooma might be one of the most photographed holes in Australian golf, although don’t dismiss the course in the quiet southern New South Wales town as having a singular reason to visit.
Adam Scott will contest three tournaments on the PGA Tour of Australasia in the first half of the upcoming summer, ensuring his absence from our shores last year was a one-off hiatus.
Damage to golf courses – both deliberate and carried out in a rage – is on the rise The course staff at my home club woke one morning last January to discover that three greens, a tee and two fairways had been damaged by a motorbike vandal – and on the eve of hosting the Read more…
A perennial favourite on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Twin Waters Golf Club melds links qualities with a tropical location and climate. Members, holidaying golfers and regular visitors keep coming back because the offering is always – and pleasingly – the same. In some ways Twin Waters is the chicken parmigiana of golf courses. It might not Read more…
The ever-evolving Westbourne course at Royal Canberra Golf Club, comprising holes one to 18, represents a magnificent layout in a wooded, lakeside setting that’s equally stellar.
At the midpoint of the ranking cycle that will determine our 2026-2027 Top 100 Courses list, which courses are making waves according to our roving panellists?
Australian Golf Digest
