Top-tier professional golf is in turmoil, and it’s tiresome, tedious and bad for grassroots golf.
Professional golf has always been a different game from the one we play. The enormous distances, overweight golf bags, unnaturally manicured fairways and incredible skillsets make for an unfamiliar sport.
Big-time tournament golf is a different world.
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Here’s a cool golf format that brings golfers of all levels into the action.
Bingo Bango Bongo is a silly name, but a simple game. And we’ve had a stack of fun with this, p[articular with new golfers.
A point is given to the first golfer who lands their ball on the green – BINGO.
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There was a win for public golf overnight with council deciding that Northcote Golf Club is to remain entirely for golf.
A proposal had been put recently forward to share the Northcote Golf Club facilities in a way that would see golf played at certain times of the week, and the space opened up for community use during others.
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Oliver Goss is the latest PGA Pro to play a match against Ron Chopper.
We’ve shared a few videos from the great Ron Chopper here before, and we’re here to tell you things have gone up a notch.
Ron is now playing games against PGA Pros and while he isn’t overly happy about his things have gone, it’s a good laugh for the rest of us.
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The talented team at Caddie Productions have put together this splendid short video feature on Bougle Run.
The piece is interspliced with an interview with Bill Coore who designed Barnbougle Lost Farm with Ben Crenshaw, and was then brought back in to construct a new short course.
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PGA Professional Peter Knight is producing some great golf swing tip videos over at his YouTube Channel and I’ve been meaning to share it around for some time now.
Peter’s latest tip concerning forearm movement in the backswing is something I’ve required fixes for a number of times so this one rings true for me.
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The views out across the Pacific Ocean are spectacular at NSW’s Crescent Head Country Club.
The team at Tredam Golf featured the wonderfully quirky Crescent Head Country Club on their YouTube Channel.
Known more for its sensational surf, the local golf course looks like a great place to visit if you’re up on the northern NSW Coast.
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Nick O’Hern has launched a new book offering tips for a better mindset to make you a better golfer.
I’ve finally had a chance to catch up on a few golf podcasts, and we’re keen to direct you all to the latest episode of The Thing About Golf featuring Nick O’Hern.
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An arbitrary time of 3pm has been invoked as a compromise in the battle for Northcote Golf Course in Melbourne.
Since the Northcote Public Golf Course opened its gates to non-golfers as a public space during the COVID lockdown, the Melbourne golf course has been under increasing pressure to make the change more permanent.
Read MoreTeven Valley Golf Course is tucked away in the rolling hills in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales lies a beautifully renovated 9-hole golf course that is worth the trip.
Replacing the ill-kempt, dangerous routing of the old course, the new Teven Valley Golf Course is now an exquisitely manicured 9-hole golf course that squeezes every inch out of the difficult high and low-lying land on either side of Eltham Road.
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