Australian Golf Digest
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Australia’s most important golf courses
Collectively, these golf courses have contributed to the development of every facet of the game Down Under.
A Great Place To Resume
With regional travel back on the agenda, Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula and neighbouring regions offer the ultimate return to normalcy for golf-starved travellers.
Black Bull Golf Course: The Game Just Changed
Yarrawonga’s Black Bull Golf Course has gone from a must-play on the Murray River to a must-stay thanks to the completion of a luxury multimillion-dollar Sebel hotel.
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.
Travel With A Capital ‘Tee’
What lesson does a golfer learn from spending 72 hours in the nation’s capital? Three days barely scratches the surface in this underappreciated golf destination.
Picture Perfect
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.
Forward Tease
When the world is allowed to travel again, these are the six Australian destinations at the top of our list.
Wairakei Golf + Sanctuary celebrates 50 years with greens restoration project
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.
OPINION: Is this 100-metre masterpiece REALLY Australia’s greatest par 3?
Here’s why Tom’s Little Devil is unlike any other short hole in the country, if not the world.
ARCHITECTURE SPECIAL: Where Golf Gets It Wrong
Our biennial ranking of the premier courses in the country is once again a celebration of the very best in Australian golf, just as it should be. Yet inside the local golf-club scene exists an intriguing realm of mistakes and maladies that Australian course architects know only too well.
An inside look at Michael Jordan’s new course, The Grove XXIII
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.
Course Review: Monash Country Club, NSW
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.
Your Guide To Golf In Vietnam
Our Tassie golfer helps you overcome sweltering heat and no apparent road rules to fully appreciate why Vietnam is one of the fastest growing golf markets on the planet.
Greg Norman’s Cabo course is the latest in his growing global design presence
Greg Norman Golf Course Design has just opened its latest creation, Rancho San Lucas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Wonders Of The South
Not only does South Australia boast some of the nation’s best golf courses, the state is also responsible for half the wine production in the country. Which makes it most enticing for wine-loving golfers to consider as a prime golf destination.
Presidents Cup 2019: Royal Melbourne’s Composite course ‘the closest thing you will ever see to Pine Valley’
Royal Melbourne is an 18-course feast for golf architecture geeks everywhere.
Helping Hanse
After a lengthy wait, Royal Sydney finally approved Gil Hanse’s appealing redesign project.
