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COURSE REVIEW: Black Bull hits a whole new level
With a brand new hotel, revitalised golf schools and a Top 100-ranked golf course, Black Bull is starting to bellow.
Australia’s most important golf courses
Collectively, these golf courses have contributed to the development of every facet of the game Down Under.
Back At A Classic
Rescheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the US Open returns to Winged Foot from September 17-20, for the sixth time since 1929.
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.
From The Ashes
Golf courses ravaged by summer’s horrendous bushfire crisis are in desperate need of one thing above all else: golfers.
Forward Tease
When the world is allowed to travel again, these are the six Australian destinations at the top of our list.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Built For The Big Stage
Debate rages over golf-course rankings, but there’s no denying The Australian Golf Club has few challengers for the mantle of No.1 tournament venue in the country.
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.
Japan’s passion for golf gives the PGA Tour’s first tournament in the country a different feel
The only thing Japan’s golf tradition has been missing is a premier tournament that attracts all of the game’s biggest stars. Now it’s getting two.
What Our Best Clubs Do Right
With threats of closure continuing to haunt Australian courses on public land, we examine what privately owned clubs are doing to ensure their own long-term survival.
Best Western
Perth isn’t the geographic centre of the golf universe but it sure feels like it once you arrive.
MacKenzie’s Royal Melbourne
The links between Australia’s grandest course and famed Augusta National are evident whenever the two great layouts are compared.
USGA Confidential
Phil’s fiasco (and others) have exposed a deepening rift between the ruling body and the game’s best players, who once even considered a boycott of the US Open.
New Zealand: A Broad Church
Christchurch’s golf scene is far more multi-faceted than it gets credit for.
New Zealand: Smooth operators
Why use golf specialist tour operators for your next golf getaway? There are multiple reasons.
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.