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.
Golfers and racing lovers, mark your Spring calendars for an unforgettable experience this November with The Melbourne Cup Carnival and King Island Golf Tour. The trip covers Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula and Tasmania’s King Island and boasts a perfect blend of world-class golf courses and horse racing, wrapped in a luxurious seven-night package.
While the timetable of the Open Championship (ever) returning to Turnberry remains in question, the famed Scottish golf course can claim something else starting in 2025: the most expensive green fee on the planet.
“These greens are so much faster than the putting green,” is one of the golf’s most common excuses – so common, in fact, that we decided to ask a superintendent if it holds any merit.
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.
When The Cabot Collection announced in 2022 that it had acquired Castle Stuart in Inverness, Scotland, rebranded Cabot Highlands with a second course by Tom Doak now under construction, it was the luxury resort developer’s first venture into Europe. Cabot has now purchased the Golf du Médoc in Bordeaux, France, marking an expansion into the Read more…
The most important development in golf-course architecture during the past 20 years is the elevation of sand-based sites. Encouraged by the success of destinations like Bandon Dunes, developers have spent this time scouring the globe for sandy, dunes-like properties on which to construct new courses and lure golfers, several of which make their debut on Read more…
In just 14 months, Dream Golf, the upscale resort golf enterprise run by Michael and Chris Keiser, have announced the development of two 36-hole public golf properties. The first, last April, was Rodeo Dunes, set amid several thousand acres of choppy prairie dunes an hour northeast of Denver (preliminary construction on the first course, designed Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
