Courses

December 21st, 2021

Courses: Bang for your buck

courses, January 2022

November 6th, 2021

Golfer’s collection of divots from great courses is latest example there’s something wrong with us

Avid golfers are often avid collectors. Of experiences, yes, but also things. Scorecards, logoed golf shirts, selfies in front of iconic golf holes – there are plenty of ways one might commemorate a visit to hallowed golf turf.

March 20th, 2021

SMALL WONDERS: Can short courses spark a movement in Australia?

An unexpected recent architectural trend is the popularity of short courses: entertaining, quick-play accessory designs stuffed with ambitious architecture.

September 10th, 2020

BIRTHDAY BASH: Wanneroo Golf Club hits half century and counting

Digging through the archives in its 50th anniversary highlights how Wanneroo Golf Club in Perth harnessed people power to build a club from the ground up

June 28th, 2020

OPINION: Golf clubs can get a financial kick by sharing their grass with AFL

At first glimpse it seemed like another war-on-golf horror story.

June 5th, 2020

AS GOOD AS IT LOOKS: Sheep Ranch, Bandon Dunes’ highly anticipated fifth 18-hole course, is now open

May 22nd, 2020

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.

April 4th, 2020

We surveyed 20 course architects about the future of design – here are their predictions

The consensus is a pragmatic one: There won’t be a boom in golf course development during the next 10 years.

March 29th, 2020

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.