Mike clayton

November 21st, 2025

The golfers who made the Mornington Peninsula

December 2025, Duncan Andrews, Mike Clayton, Mornington Peninsula, Tom Doak, Victoria

September 23rd, 2025

The Ryder Cup-like team event involving Australian golfers that was held once and never again

This week’s Ryder Cup is a good time for non-Americans and non-Europeans to pause and remember the Ryder Cup-like events that have shamelessly copied the concept.

February 27th, 2025

Hobart’s 7 Mile Beach announces course opening date for preview play

Course founder and driving force Mathew Goggin announced overnight that the design collaboration between Mike DeVries and Mike Clayton in Hobart’s east will begin welcoming golfers for preview play in late April.

November 30th, 2024

Australian Open 2024: Where do our two national championships go from here?

The future of the Australian Open remains unclear with player frustrations boiling over in Melbourne this week after three years of the mixed men’s and women’s format.

November 28th, 2024

Australian Open 2024: Melbourne’s Su Oh defies horror season to share the first-round lead

The former Olympian co-leads her national championship after the first round, sitting at seven-under-par alongside Korean amateur Hyojin Yang

December 19th, 2023

Travel Special: Business With Pleasure

April 26th, 2023

Architecture: The Art Of Design

A round-table discussion of Australian course architects reveals the trends, tales and talking points of golf course architecture in this country and abroad.

March 28th, 2023

The Last Stand

Tree removal has been at the heart of golf-course architecture for the past few decades. Has the game finally arrived at its natural balance?

November 23rd, 2022

To build courses or birdie them?

Australian amateur Lukas Michel still can’t decide what to do for a living.

October 26th, 2022

Golf’s darkest day

The sun was out, the wind was down and the field was away.
Yet the 2002 Australian Open stopped not long after play started. Two decades on, we revisit the day Australian golf made world headlines for all the wrong reasons.

AUS PGA 2021: Elvis Smylie to draw on ‘obscene’ Cam Smith inspiration for PGA tilt

How Geoff Ogilvy got four iconic Australian courses to commit to an innovative new event

Vale Lyndsay Stephen

Tasmania is getting another new course – and it promises to be jaw-droppingly good!

THE NEXT ONE: Elvis has ENTERED the building!

Australia’s most important golf courses

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.

December 11th, 2019

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.

October 18th, 2019

Veteran golf-course designers come together to create new international partnership

For once, the usually bland rhetoric contained in a press release proved 100-percent accurate.

July 11th, 2019

The Open 2019: The most low-profile high-profile swing coach in golf

Personal tragedy and an inherent humbleness have kept Denis Pugh from becoming a ‘big-time’ instructor. But it’s a life he’s come to enjoy.

May 3rd, 2019

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.

Leaderboard

The RSM Classic - 2025

Pos	Player	Tot	Thru	Rnd
1	Sami Valimaki	-23	F	4
2	Max McGreevy	-22	F	4
3	Ricky Castillo	-21	F	4
T4	Nico Echavarria	-19	F	4
T4	Lee Hodges	-19	F	4
T4	S.W. Kim	-19	F	4
T7	Zac Blair	-18	F	4
T7	Doug Ghim	-18	F	4
T7	Rico Hoey	-18	F	4
T7	Johnny Keefer	-18	F	4
T7	Andrew Novak	-18	F	4
T7	John Pak	-18	F	4
T7	J.T. Poston	-18	F	4
T7	Seamus Power	-18	F	4
T7	Patrick Rodgers	-18	F	4
T7	Sam Stevens	-18	F	4
T7	Michael Thorbjornsen	-18	F	4
T18	Mac Meissner	-17	F	4
T18	Keith Mitchell	-17	F	4
T18	Doc Redman	-17	F	4
T21	Eric Cole	-16	F	4
T21	Ben Martin	-16	F	4
T21	William Mouw	-16	F	4
T21	Ryan Palmer	-16	F	4
T25	Byeong Hun An	-15	F	4
T25	Hayden Buckley	-15	F	4
T25	Trey Mullinax	-15	F	4
T25	Henrik Norlander	-15	F	4
T25	Andrew Putnam	-15	F	4
T25	Antoine Rozner	-15	F	4
T25	Greyson Sigg	-15	F	4
T25	Webb Simpson	-15	F	4
T25	Davis Thompson	-15	F	4
T34	Harrison Endycott	-14	F	4
T34	Patrick Fishburn	-14	F	4
T34	Mark Hubbard	-14	F	4
T34	Patton Kizzire	-14	F	4
T34	Ben Kohles	-14	F	4
T34	Kris Ventura	-14	F	4
T34	Vince Whaley	-14	F	4
T41	Jonathan Byrd	-13	F	4
T41	Austin Eckroat	-13	F	4
T41	Brice Garnett	-13	F	4
T41	Chan Kim	-13	F	4
T41	Chris Kirk	-13	F	4
T41	Niklas Norgaard	-13	F	4
T47	Harris English	-12	F	4
T47	Matthew Riedel	-12	F	4
T47	Sam Ryder	-12	F	4
T47	Ben Silverman	-12	F	4
T51	Daniel Berger	-11	F	4
T51	Michael Brennan	-11	F	4
T51	Pi Coody	-11	F	4
T51	Quade Cummins	-11	F	4
T51	Mackenzie Hughes	-11	F	4
T51	Denny McCarthy	-11	F	4
T51	Troy Merritt	-11	F	4
T51	Jackson Suber	-11	F	4
T51	Jesper Svensson	-11	F	4
T51	Karl Vilips	-11	F	4
T51	Matt Wallace	-11	F	4
T62	Chad Ramey	-10	F	4
T62	Alex Smalley	-10	F	4
T64	Beau Hossler	-9	F	4
T64	Thomas Rosenmueller	-9	F	4
T64	Brandt Snedeker	-9	F	4
T67	Matt Kuchar	-8	F	4
T67	Matthieu Pavon	-8	F	4
T67	Davis Riley	-8	F	4
70	Adam Hadwin	-7	F	4
71	Chez Reavie	-6	F	4
T72	James Hahn	-2	F	4
T72	Brendan Valdes	-2	F	4
CUT	Blades Brown	-6	F	2
CUT	Rafael Campos	-6	F	2
CUT	Cristobal Del Solar	-6	F	2
CUT	Steven Fisk	-6	F	2
CUT	David Ford	-6	F	2
CUT	Lanto Griffin	-6	F	2
CUT	Chesson Hadley	-6	F	2
CUT	Nick Hardy	-6	F	2
CUT	Brian Harman	-6	F	2
CUT	Zach Johnson	-6	F	2
CUT	Peter Knade	-6	F	2
CUT	Martin Laird	-6	F	2
CUT	Luke List	-6	F	2
CUT	Kevin Roy	-6	F	2
CUT	Robert Streb	-6	F	2
CUT	Kevin Streelman	-6	F	2
CUT	Sahith Theegala	-6	F	2
CUT	Braden Thornberry	-6	F	2
CUT	Kevin Velo	-6	F	2
CUT	Camilo Villegas	-6	F	2
CUT	Danny Walker	-6	F	2
CUT	Car Young	-6	F	2
CUT	Mason Andersen	-5	F	2
CUT	Cameron Champ	-5	F	2
CUT	Trevor Cone	-5	F	2
CUT	Kyle Cottam	-5	F	2
CUT	Joel Dahmen	-5	F	2
CUT	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	-5	F	2
CUT	Dylan Frittelli	-5	F	2
CUT	Ryan Gerard	-5	F	2
CUT	Will Gordon	-5	F	2
CUT	Rikuya Hoshino	-5	F	2
CUT	Justin Lower	-5	F	2
CUT	Thorbjørn Olesen	-5	F	2
CUT	Matt Atkins	-4	F	2
CUT	Luke Clanton	-4	F	2
CUT	Taylor Dickson	-4	F	2
CUT	Noah Goodwin	-4	F	2
CUT	Harry Higgs	-4	F	2
CUT	Tom Hoge	-4	F	2
CUT	Stephan Jaeger	-4	F	2
CUT	Kevin Kisner	-4	F	2
CUT	Hayden Springer	-4	F	2
CUT	Adam Svensson	-4	F	2
CUT	Tim Widing	-4	F	2
CUT	Anders Albertson	-3	F	2
CUT	Ryan Blaum	-3	F	2
CUT	Joseph Bramlett	-3	F	2
CUT	Takumi Kanaya	-3	F	2
CUT	Jeremy Paul	-3	F	2
CUT	Paul Peterson	-3	F	2
CUT	Scott Piercy	-3	F	2
CUT	Robby Shelton	-3	F	2
CUT	Dylan Wu	-3	F	2
CUT	Frankie Capan III	-2	F	2
CUT	Will Chandler	-2	F	2
CUT	Tyler Duncan	-2	F	2
CUT	Ryo Hisatsune	-2	F	2
CUT	Kaito Onishi	-2	F	2
CUT	Isaiah Salinda	-2	F	2
CUT	Gordon Sargent	-2	F	2
CUT	David Skinns	-2	F	2
CUT	Tommy Gainey	-1	F	2
CUT	Joe Highsmith	-1	F	2
CUT	David Lipsky	-1	F	2
CUT	Taylor Montgomery	-1	F	2
CUT	Taylor Moore	-1	F	2
CUT	Chandler Phillips	-1	F	2
CUT	Kyle Westmoreland	-1	F	2
CUT	Jacob Bridgeman	E	F	2
CUT	Austin Cook	E	F	2
CUT	Vince Covello	E	F	2
CUT	Jason Dufner	E	F	2
CUT	Matt NeSmith	E	F	2
CUT	Bud Cauley	+1	F	2
CUT	George McNeill	+1	F	2
CUT	Ben Polland	+1	F	2
CUT	Adam Schenk	+2	F	2
CUT	Nick Watney	+2	F	2
CUT	Mason Howell	+3	F	2
CUT	Brendon Todd	+3	F	2
CUT	Davis Love III	+5	F	2
CUT	Matt Sanders	+11	F	2

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