The new head of the PGA of Australia, Gavin Kirkman, on leadership, attracting more young people to the game, his pet peeves, and who really is Australia’s greatest ever golfer.
As the weather begins to cool down, Australian golfers’ eyes will turn to our tropical regions. Here are two diverse options in our nation’s north.
Melbourne’s northern suburbs are a relatively foreign landscape for golf. Yet Club Mandalay – 25 minutes from Melbourne airport – is set to take off.
Test yourself in the ‘Bull Ring’ – if you dare. Peter Thomson’s Murray River gem features a self-styled Amen Corner. Like the famed Augusta National Golf Club, a stunning three-hole stretch can make or break your round.
In the late 1990s, prominent West Australian golf architect Michael Coate and the late Roger Mackay teamed up with 1991 British Open champion Ian Baker-Finch to design Links Kennedy Bay. What they wanted was to give Western Australia a fitting tribute to the links courses of Scotland. What they got was a golf course that is continually ranked among Australia’s top 25
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![Gary Player [left] meets Gary Edwin, who was christened Gary Player before changing his name due to frustrating mix-ups.](https://www.australiangolfdigest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Edwin_01.jpg)
