As Castle Hill Country Club marks its 75th anniversary, the milestone provides a fitting opportunity to reflect on a rich legacy built on tradition, sporting excellence and forward thinking.
Plenty of top-shelf golf can be found along the 391-kilometre stretch between the pioneering settlement of Swan Hill and the winemaking region of Rutherglen.
High visitor numbers at Sydney’s Centennial Parklands – used to justify carving up half of Moore Park Golf Course for more parks in the city’s CBD – have been “inflated” by the New South Wales Government, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is Australia’s only golf club with three 18-hole courses at a single site – The National also boasts a fourth course, Long Island, at Frankston – and is the host course for a fourth straight year of The National Tournament starting this Thursday.
Buying property in the NSW Southern Highlands may be expensive, but the golf courses, hotels and restaurants are affordable, approachable and welcoming of visitors.
Course founder and driving force Mathew Goggin announced overnight that the design collaboration between Mike DeVries and Mike Clayton in Hobart’s east will begin welcoming golfers for preview play in late April.
No other Australian Open venue – and perhaps no other Australian golf course – has shut its doors a day after it first opened. Yet that’s the bizarre tale of The Grand, tucked away in the Gold Coast hinterland. Designed by Greg Norman and former design partner Bob Harrison for a consortium of Japanese owners, Read more…
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…
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