Australian Golf Digest
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Opinion: Opportunity Lost
The tale of Lakewood Shores Golf Course is one of loss with lessons to be learned.
Roads To Recovery
You need not fly interstate for a golf getaway. Wherever you live, now’s the perfect time for a good old-fashioned road trip.
From The Ashes
Golf courses ravaged by summer’s horrendous bushfire crisis are in desperate need of one thing above all else: golfers.
From One Golden Age To Another
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?
Introducing the Great Golf Holes Matchplay Contest
We have devised three separate matchplay brackets of the best par 3s, par 4s and par 5s in Australia.
Tasmania Reinvented
A few years ago the Apple Isle was in danger of being pigeonholed as “Barnbougle or bust”. Not anymore.
Bombs Away
How Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s beguiling design will defend itself against the onslaught of the US team’s bomb squad.
New Zealand’s Top 50 Golf Courses
Golf Digest’s inaugural ranking of the best courses across the ditch shines the spotlight on New Zealand’s international classics as well as its time-honoured gems.
Landscapes: The Hills Golf Club
The Hills, Sir Michael Hill’s exclusive creation outside Queenstown, is well known to New Zealanders and golfers from around the world thanks to its role as a frequent tournament venue in recent years. The John Darby design highlights the area’s magnificent surroundings while traversing the varied terrain of the Arrowtown site.
Great Escapes
Whether an optional extra or the major drawcard, the golf course is only part of what the modern golf resort needs to be considered exceptional.
The Greatest Composite Course on the Planet: 18 Best Holes in Victoria
If you could create the ultimate fantasy course for this year’s Presidents Cup by cherry picking the very best the state of Victoria has to offer, how would it look? We laid down the challenge to some of Australia’s elite players and course designers. Naturally, they didn’t disappoint.
Tales of Terror At Sawgrass
Fear is the prevailing feeling on the tee of the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass’ Stadium course. It’s said that tour pros are intimidated by only two things – wind and water – and both are abundant in the diabolical creation of Pete and the late Alice Dye.
Southern Exposure
Hosting the Women’s Australian Open has turned the spotlight onto the magnificence of Adelaide and South Australia.
Not So Missing Links
Whether or not a seaside golf course classifies as a true links is often secondary to the experience it provides.
Island Home: Where you can play an exact replica of TPC Sawgrass’ 17th hole in Australia
Sydney entrepreneur Craig Perkins loves the Players so much, he built a replica of TPC Sawgrass’ famous 17th hole in the backyard of his New South Wales Southern Highlands retreat. Very soon you can play it too.
The Hills Are Alive
There’s a certain mystique about The Hills, the exclusive private golf club on the outskirts of Queenstown. That allure is set to grow now the club is allowing visitors the opportunity to savour a world-class golf experience.
Spectacular golf course development approved for Kangaroo Island
The South Australian Government has announced development authorisation had been granted to Kangaroo Island Links Pty Ltd for a revision to a previously approved golf development on pristine Kangaroo Island, which lies off the state’s southern coastline.
Long? Erin Hills has nothing on this Aussie course
Meet the 1,365-kilometre Nullarbor Links, the longest golf course in the world
Hope Springs Eternal
The mastery of the design at Links Hope Island remains as relevant today as when the course first opened almost 25 years ago.
A Dream Start: Cape Wickham one year on
Australian Golf Digest takes an exclusive look at Cape Wickham, 11 months after its highly anticipated opening.
