A round-table discussion of Australian course architects reveals the trends, tales and talking points of golf course architecture in this country and abroad.
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.
Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath, Peninsula Kingswood and Yarra Yarra will host one round each in a 72-hole event with 60-strong mixture of male and female pros and amateurs.
He’s the son of a tennis gun and boasts one of the best names in sport. Yet it’s the scores Elvis Smylie is shooting that are turning heads, and even have some tipping him to become Australian golf’s Next Big Thing.
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.
Australian Golf Digest
