Exploring the New South Wales Hunter Valley, where championship fairways and cellar doors combine for the ultimate golf getaway. It’s only two hours up the highway from Sydney, but the Hunter Valley might as well be another world. The air smells cleaner. The traffic disappears. And before long the road dips and you’re rolling through Read more…
Through trial, error, YouTube deep dives and plenty of laughs, LIV Golf star Lucas Herbert and caddie Nick Pugh have crafted one of golf’s best partnerships.
Jared Van Snellenberg, once the bleached blond looper in “Happy Gilmore”, is now (fittingly) a psychiatry professor. He’s a living golf legend, one of the game’s great folk heroes. To golf fans, he might be more recognisable than some recent PGA Tour winners. And yet, he’s never even played a round of golf. It’s been Read more…
Measuring caddie credit in pro golf is a subjective exercise. Few moments are as clearcut as Steve Williams calling Tiger Woods off a bounced-in sand wedge from deep rough in favour of a risky, nuked and spinning lob wedge on the 72nd hole of the 2008 US Open, setting up the most momentous 12-footer ever. Usually, Read more…
While most fans only see the trophies and tee-times, the real work of restoring Australian golf’s professional heartbeat has happened quietly, behind the scenes. The PGA Tour of Australasia’s Nick Dastey and Kim Felton share how a six-year masterplan is bearing fruit, and why the best is yet to come.
Ella Scaysbrook announced to the golf world in 2025 that this Australian talent is going to be around the top echelon of women’s golf for years to come.
Australia’s legendary five-time Open champion Peter Thomson was not above offering a barbed opinion, be it of a golfer, a golf course or the golf swing. Of Tiger Woods, he once said, “I wish he’d smile more. He injures his image by being morose and petulant. There is also very little consideration for the fellow Read more…
Two months after golf clubs and club golfers across Australia transitioned to the new Golf Australia CONNECT handicap-management system, Damien de Bohun, Golf Australia’s general manager of clubs, facilities and places to play, provides an update.
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