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Ask A Super: You Might Be Throwing Broken Tees In The Wrong Spot

Where you leave them can have a substantial impact on the grounds staff

Ask A Super: Pro golfers do this every time they leave a bunker, but do you really need to?

From an agronomic perspective, does it really matter if we keep bunker sand off the greens?

Ask A Super: You can remove rocks from bunkers, but where you should throw them might surprise you

The Rules of Golf allow you to remove loose impediments, like stones, from the bunker, but it turns out golf course superintendents have a strong preference for where you should put them.

Ask A Super: Why are practice greens slower than greens on the course?

“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.

Ask A Super: Why are you coring our greens when they’re in perfect shape?

The ensuing days and weeks are the most frustrating of the year. Surely there must be a reason why our golf course superintendents wait until the greens are in good shape to aerate, right?

Superintendents: Green Without Envy

Why aren’t course superintendents golf’s rockstars?

This common golf-cart mistake is a ‘superintendent’s worst nightmare’

Replace your divots, fix your pitch marks, rake the sand. Golfers know the basics of course maintenance etiquette yet are still making a common error that one superintendent calls his “worst nightmare”.

Ask An Architect: Do Fast Greens Ruin Good Architecture?

Green speeds is an ongoing discussion topic at golf clubs around the world and throughout golf-course architecture Architect Brian Schneider, a long-time associate of Tom Doak and partner at Renaissance Golf Design, has renovated clubs like Hollywood Golf Club in New Jersey (No.170 on America’s Greatest Courses), Tamarack Country Club in Connecticut, Llanerch Country Club Read more…

What’s your favourite hole at Pebble Beach? We asked more than a dozen LPGA pros and got their picks

Golf Digest polled 13 LPGA pros, asking each a simple question: what’s your favourite hole at Pebble, and why?

Coring greens, as explained by a top course superintendent

As golfers, we know punching those tiny core holes and filling them with sand is a necessary evil, but do we really know why it’s necessary?

How’d I Do? Don’t Ask.

I played the home The Players from the shortest tees and from the tips. The long and the short of TPC Sawgrass.

Down ‘N Dirty: Australia’s Outback and Inland Courses

Our editors looked across our vast continent and detailed experiences and courses emblematic of our outback and inland heritage.

50 Favourite Golf Clubs In Australia

These are the clubs getting it right when it comes to all facets of the golf experience, not just the course.

Vietnam: Golf In The Land Of The Ascending Dragon

Danang in Central Vietnam is home to seven world-class golf facilities. As such it serves as a microcosm for golf in the Socialist Republic.

Architecture: Has The Tree Removal Trend Gone Too Far?

Robert Trent Jones Jnr on one of course architecture’s most controversial realms.

Coastal Style: NSW North Coast

Touring the portion of coastline between Sydney and the Queensland border reveals a region rich in diversity and golf surprises.

32 Great Summer Golf Getaways

Need a place to play and stay with the girls? Our editors have done the hard work for you. There’s something for everyone in this ultimate golf getaway hit list.

7 Mile Beach: Reasons to SMile

With the much-anticipated opening of Hobart’s 7 Mile Beach course on the horizon, it’s just one reason why Tasmania is the envy of golfers across the country.

Why nobody will mow the fairways at this week’s PGA Tour event

The PGA Tour’s return to Utah will feature fully automated mowers, a potential breakthrough for golf course sustainability.

Asia-Pacific Amateur 2024: Lukas Michel is relishing elite amateur events and golf course design

Lukas Michel says he’s enjoying juggling golf course design consultation with being an elite international amateur as he settles into the Asia Pacific event in Japan.

World’s Best Green Fees: The Lucky Country

Amid escalating green fees at some of the world’s best golf facilities, Australia’s top courses remain relatively affordable. When it comes to playing golf Down Under, it’s little wonder golfers from around the world consider Australia to be the Lucky Country.

Courses: Beat The Winter Blues

A selection of golf destinations you need to visit before the cooler weather comes to an end.