Top 100 Spotlight: The Vintage Golf Club

The Hunter Valley wine region of New South Wales lacks few attractions, but until 2003 it was missing a top-shelf golf course. Cypress Lakes had opened 11 years earlier but wasn’t yet in the elite class. That changed when Greg Norman and Bob Harrison weaved fairways between the grapevines at The Vintage. With both the Read more…

Top 100 Spotlight: Lonsdale Links

Part of the rising fascination with Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula can be attributed to the ambitious yet impressive overhaul of the course now known as Lonsdale Links. When the design firm of Ogilvy Cocking Mead (OCM) embarked on the redesign of the old Lonsdale Golf Club, they took a gamble that paid off. The course today Read more…

Ask An Architect: Do Fast Greens Ruin Good Architecture?

Green speeds is an ongoing discussion topic at golf clubs around the world and throughout golf-course architecture Architect Brian Schneider, a long-time associate of Tom Doak and partner at Renaissance Golf Design, has renovated clubs like Hollywood Golf Club in New Jersey (No.170 on America’s Greatest Courses), Tamarack Country Club in Connecticut, Llanerch Country Club Read more…

Course Review: cluBarham Golf & Sports, NSW

Making its mark: With great golf – including its iconic “Gallipoli” hole – live shows, fine food and three choices of accommodation, cluBarham offers everything you need for a memorable weekend on the mighty Murray River.