Boonie Doon is a course that has kept rising on our ranking ever since completing its drawn-out redesign that saw almost a decade of segmented upheaval, yet was surely worth the wait.
If a week is a long time in politics, football or whichever pursuit you’d like to inject into the time-honoured saying, don’t ever let it be said that a week is a short period in golf – or golf courses.
Grace Kim authored one of the great finishes in major-championship history on her way to winning the Evian Championship. Yet to those who know her, the Sydneysider’s final flourish came as no surprise.
South African Oliver Bekker confessed he momentarily “lost the ability to play golf” before showing great coolness under pressure in winning the WA Open at Mount Lawley Golf Club.
The theme of the week so far at the Nexus Advisernet Bowra & O’Dea WA Open has been one of the players appreciating the firm and fast surfaces at the renovated Mount Lawley Golf Club. Those ground conditions were amplified during today’s third round when strong winds turned the course into a fierce test and Read more…
When I first played Mount Lawley Golf Club six years ago, I’ll confess that I didn’t think it was anything better than a good layout. Maybe a solid 7-out-of-10 course that was deserving of its place in the middle realms of our biennial Top 100 Golf Courses ranking. Two years ago when I returned, the Read more…
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…
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