Top Ten Public Access Golf Courses
Now more than ever, this nation’s golfers are spoilt for choice. Check out our ranking of the best courses everyone can play.Australia is blessed with hundreds of quality courses, which not only offer...
View ArticleMOORE PARK GOLF
As a much younger man working in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, the most accessible and enjoyable round of golf I could find before or after work was at Moore Park Golf. In fact, whenever I or...
View ArticleCALLAWAY RAZR HAWK DRIVER
Our team gets hold of Callaway’s offerings for players of all levels. TESTER: Gary Sanderson HANDICAP: 11 MODEL AND SHAFT PLAYED: Callaway Razr Hawk driver with 10.5º loft, neutral head and fitted with...
View ArticleGOLF AUSTRALIA CAPTION COMPETITION
Golf can be frustrating, as Henrik Stenson is showing here. Do you have a caption that aptly fits what the Swede is feeling here? Submit your caption, via the form below for the accompanying photo and...
View ArticleSAVE CADDIES FROM EXTINCTION
DURING the compilation of this issue I read with great interest Geoff Ogilvy’s column regarding the Tour pro-caddie relationship and, in particular, how his long-term partnership with Alistair Matheson...
View ArticleFLEURIEU GOLF COURSE
Only a visionary could have seen the leap a dusty sand quarry and disused dairy could take to blossom into one of South Australia’s premier links-inspired golf courses. So it was fortunate that almost...
View ArticleChipping with a 3-Wood
One problem I see with amateur players is they lack creativity around the greens. Using a sand or lob wedge for every greenside shot is not always the answer or low-risk play for getting up and down....
View ArticleSEX SELLS … EVEN ROUNDS OF GOLF
YOU don’t have to be a genius to know that sexuality is one of the most powerful tools of marketing and advertising. In other words, sex sells. Interestingly, marketing or advertising gurus who are...
View ArticleTAYLORMADE R11 DRIVER
You know that the clubhead is white. Our test team figures out how the driver leader’s new big stick actually performs. TESTER: Matt Arcus HANDICAP: 4 MODEL AND SHAFT PLAYED: TaylorMade R11 fitted with...
View ArticleThe Gunpowder Golf Shot
Can any of these top pro golfers hit a ball directly into a barrel of ‘gunpowder’ that’s moored on a boat out at sea?
View ArticleTHE TOUGHEST ROUND EVER
If you thought getting through 18 holes was tough on your feet imagine this. On August 23, Andy Bowen and his crew of keen golfers will play the world’s longest golf course, the Nullarbor Links, on...
View ArticleGolf Boys – Oh Oh Oh (Official Video)
Golf Boys – Oh Oh Oh (Official Video) featuring PGA TOUR Players Ben Crane, Rickie Fowler, Bubba Watson & Hunter Mahan.
View ArticleMGI BUGGY DESIGN FINALIST
MGI’s Navigator G800 motorised golf buggy as been selected as a finalist in the Sports & Leisure division of this year’s Australian International Design awards. The Navigator G800 is the only golf...
View ArticleCONGRESSIONAL CONTENDERS
The US Open returns to Congressional Country Club in Washington for the first time since 1997. The layout is very different to the one on which Ernie Els snatched a one-stroke win off Colin...
View ArticlePersonal Lesson: Controlling The Putter Face
There are many and varied ways to putt. Cross-handed, claw grip, belly putter and long putter to name a few. There’s also the question whether the swing path is straight back, straight through or on an...
View ArticleSOUTH PORT GOLF CLUB
The Gold Coast has seemingly been on a path of continually reinventing itself for nearly four decades. Never was there a truer marketing slogan than the “ever changing, always amazing Gold Coast”...
View ArticleTIGER WOODS TO PLAY AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Tiger Woods will play in Sydney for the first time in 15 years after confirming he will start in Australian Open golf championship in November. It also now appears likely that US Presidents Cup captain...
View ArticleSHELLY BEACH GOLF CLUB
There’s something right – elemental, even, if you pardon the pun – to golf by the sea. It’s where the game started, and where it seems to make the most sense. A salty breeze and the sound of crashing...
View ArticleALLENBY, BADDELEY CUP BOUND
A record-equalling five Australians will head up the International side for the Presidents Cup to be played at Royal Melbourne in November. International team captain Greg Norman today announced...
View ArticleBrookwater Golf & Country Club
The floods that devastated Queensland last December and January affected the state’s golfing life in ways widespread and unpredictable. Maps of the disaster areas in Brisbane would show a golf course...
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