We reveal the 25 layouts that take top turf conditioning to a whole new level and find out why the COVID-19 lockdown actually provided a timely ‘reset’ many courses so desperately needed.
As part of Golf Digest’s“Every Hole At” series featuring the world’s best courses, we enlisted Bill Coore to narrate this special tour around one of golf’s most anticipated new course openings.
Golf clubs in Australia’s worst bushfire affected regions have received a funding boost, thanks to the generosity of the golf community around the world.
Many find sanctuary on a golf course, but it is rare to find a golf course that is a sanctuary and Wairakei Golf + Sanctuary is thought to have scored a world first. The course is skillfully designed to blend with the natural rolling countryside and developed to meet the rigorous design standards for world class championship competition.
The future is exciting for the popular Regency Park Golf Course, with the announcement that new course manager GreenSpace, will be expanding and creating what will become “the best little golf course in Adelaide.”
With 33 layouts in Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses, Victoria leaves other states in its wake when it comes to world-class fairways. But what makes the Garden State so great for golf, far beyond its famed Sandbelt region?
Since undergoing an extensive $6 million renovation in 2010, Princeville Makai has soared up the global golf-course rankings, including being named among the Top 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses in America by Golf Digest.
Architecture’s best rule is: Use what’s there. Sometimes that’s a perfect landscape, a Shinnecock Hills with wild grasses, sand ridges, a distant bay. Sometimes it’s Florida citrus land, a pasture and canals.
A busy club known for its slick greens and star-studded membership, Monash is a course that accentuates the best assets of a stunning bushland setting.
Australian Golf Digest
