A little more than 16,000 kilometres and nine time zones from the 18th green of the Old Course at St Andrews, host of this week’s AIG Women’s Open, is a golf course in the outback of Australia with a quirky place in the game.
Likely to be known as 5 Mile Beach, the second course will add an important dimension to the peninsula of land on the eastern side of the Tasmanian capital.
Ross Watson transformed a previously unremarkable site in the Central Coast region of New South Wales into the challenging yet enjoyable Magenta Shores golf course.
It’s one of the most spectacular courses in the world yet confusion reigns over who actually designed it. Cape Wickham on Tasmania’s King Island is at the centre of a dispute between American Mike DeVries and Australian Darius Oliver. To solve the mystery, we asked Duncan Andrews, the man who funded the entire construction of Cape Wickham,
to set the record straight.
Australian Golf Digest
