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A look at some of the great holes at Barnbougle that don’t get the same attention as some of the others.
It isn’t hard to appreciate how good the golf is at Barnbougle.
Few golfers are left unmoved by the rugged, unpretentious beauty of both golf courses with many coming away with strong opinions on which one is better.
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Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith have started a campaign to raise money for the Australian bushfires relief effort.
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With the support of other Australian tour players and the PGA Tour, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith have vowed to kick in money for each birdie or eagle they make this week at the Sony Open in Hawaii, with the PGA Tour matching up to $125,000.
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Australians love to hear what Americans think of our home shores. And this one was a glowing endorsement of one of our most spectacular golf courses.
About a month ago now, two well-known American golf writers spent a few weeks travelling around Australia and New Zealand.
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Golf.com have released their latest list of the top-100 golf courses in the world and eight Australian golf courses have made the cut.
Pine Valley has once again come out on top of the latest list of the world’s best golf courses followed by Cypress Point and St.
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Golfers around the world will soon play under a standardized handicapping system, but what will it mean for Australian golfers?
A new World Handicap System will take effect in Australia from January 30, 2020 meaning that you can take your handicap to any golf destination in the world.
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The idea of a reversible golf course, one that could be played in one direction or the other, is not new. In fact The Old Course at St Andrews was at one point regularly played in reverse.
The “right-handed” version of The Old Course is the one we’re all familiar with, but a “left-handed” version was played every other week in the late 19th century that began by teeing off to the 17th green and finishing by playing from the 2nd tee to the 18th green.
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Inside Golf featured this cool video of a behind-the-scenes look at how to make a mini golf course. At least in this case, how Richard Chamberlain and his team make a mini-golf course.
The Maroochy River Golf Club on the Sunshine Coast have had the construction team from Mini Golf Creations on site this year to put in a mini golf course.
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Mission Hills Hainan Island and The Dunes at Shenzhou Peninsula are on the itinerary of this great golf tour to China in 2020.
We’ve been supporting AYM Golf tours since we had the amazing opportunity to see the golf courses of Hokkaido, Japan last year.
AYM Golf are offering a range of great golf tours to a bunch of Asian destinations but this escorted tour to China caught our eye.
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Mulligans aren’t officially part of the rules of golf. Or so we thought.
Sweden’s Jesper Parnevik was involved in a very strange situation during the final round of the Champions Tour SAS Championship over the weekend.
Faced with a short putt for bogey, Parnevik’s putt horse-shoed around the hole and hit his foot.
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I’d tried carrying my golf bag before and hated it. But now I’ve learned how to do it properly and learned a few tricks along the way.
I used to feel a little intimidated by golfers who would carry their own golf bag.
It felt like they knew something I didn’t.
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