Just how breathtaking and dramatic a place is Tasmania’s King Island? Consider this: when it was decided to inflate the number of golf courses on the island in the Bass Strait, they added not just one world-class golf course but two.
Southern Golf Club used the hosting of a significant amateur tournament to bust out of Melbourne’s COVID funk and propel itself towards an exciting next chapter
Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club has never looked better. The course is a prestigious links-style layout located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, straddling the magnificent Tuggerah Lake and the Pacific Ocean.
A round-table discussion of Australian course architects reveals the trends, tales and talking points of golf course architecture in this country and abroad.
Pack your bags – and clubs – for that mid-year vacation or long weekend. A number of forward-thinking golf clubs have initiated improvements to become even better play-and-stay destinations.
The yet-to-be-named 19-hole layout will be Bandon’s second short-course option to accompany The Preserve, a rollicking 13-hole course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw (and shaped by designer Dave Zinkand) playing through wild coastal dunes with views above the Pacific Ocean.
It’s often forgotten that design contribution extended all the way to Australia, where Arnold Palmer in his playing days won an Australian Open and Wills Masters title.
Every architect wants their holes to be challenging, entertaining and pretty, but these are the things that happen on the surface, and only after other critical elements have been put in place.
Not short on major attractions, next month’s LIV Golf Adelaide tournament has made South Australia an even more irresistible destination for travelling golfers.
Mathew Goggin, Tasmania’s best-known touring pro, has a new passion project: drawing more golfers to his hometown of Hobart courtesy of two new world-class courses.
Australian Golf Digest
