When I first played Mount Lawley Golf Club six years ago, I’ll confess that I didn’t think it was anything better than a good layout. Maybe a solid 7-out-of-10 course that was deserving of its place in the middle realms of our biennial Top 100 Golf Courses ranking. Two years ago when I returned, the Read more…
The presence of Marc Leishman adds extra star power to this year’s WA Open field, although it may just be the golf course at Mount Lawley that is this week’s biggest star.
Geoff Ogilvy has quietly built an impressive portfolio of course design work across Australia and Asia. Now he and his firm of Ogilvy, Cocking and Mead have secured a large-scale project at one of golf’s well-known tournament courses to preserve its status as a sought-out venue for Major championships.
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.
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.