Photos from my recent visit to see the new short course at Barnbougle, Bougle Run.
Bougle Run is a 14-hole short course at Barnbougle. Featuring two par-4s and 12 par-3s, the course has been built up in the dunes in the middle of Lost Farm and it’s aimed at golfers who played in the morning and are up for a bit of fun in the late afternoon.
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Golf Australia today announced record growth in club participation and total participation, with a 6.4 percent increase in club members and a 21 percent (210,000) year-on-year rise in round players, according to AusPlay data.
Media Release via Australian Golf Media
The 2020-21 Golf Club Participation Report, which was prepared by Golf Business Advisory Services, showcases a combination of Golf Australia’s club member participation data and Sport Australia’s AusPlay data, with both data sets providing the golf industry a year-on-year view of the game’s participation trends.
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The team at 13th Beach Golf Links shared a frightening photo of the aftermath of a lightning strike.
Those tendril things you can see in the image are known as Lichtenberg figures, which are electrical discharges going through the turf after a lightning strike.
If you’re ever questioning why you not allowed to keep playing golf in a thunderstorm, this is why.
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If you’ve never been down to the Bellarine Peninsula and played the courses at 13th Beach – you should.
Some of Australia’s best male and female golfers will return to 13th Beach next week to compete in the innovative Vic Open again.
The men’s field was given an added incentive yesterday with the announcement that the top-3 finishers will be given an automatic berth in the 15th Open Championship at St Andrews in July.
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Meeting people is one of golf’s lesser-known charms, and Random Golf Club has a unique way to meet many golfers at once.
There’s a special technique to remember names when you’re meeting many people at once. It’s not something I’ve ever learned and it’s not something I’ve ever needed, least of all on the golf course.
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Golf Australia Magazine has released online their 2022 list of Australia’s Top-100 Golf Courses.
If you’d looked through the racks for golf magazines in December you may have noticed that Golf Australia Magazine released their biennial list of Australia’s Top-100 golf courses.
If you didn’t catch the list it is up online and you can scroll through all 100 of Australia’s best golf courses according to Golf Australia Magazine’s panel of judges – including yours truly.
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A single hole-in-one or albatross in a round of golf is worth celebrating. But both in the same round is simply extraordinary.
A number of media outlets reported on this extraordinary round of golf from Perth golfer, Rowan McCarthy.
McCarthy was playing Wembley Golf Course as part of a Perth Golf Network tournament when he managed to card both a hole-in-one and an albatross in the space of four holes.
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The lads from The Uninspired Unemployed have shared a remarkable, golf-related video down their Instagram feed after a day out at Gerringong Golf Club.
Rather than try and describe it, it’s probably just worth putting it out there for you to watch.
We’re still asking ourselves, “what did we just watch?!”
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Some of the best writing, audio and video presentations from Australia’s golf media in 2021 have been recognised by the Australian Golf Media Association.
The Australian Golf Media Association (AGMA) announced its annual award winners for 2021. The awards span the best golf writing, podcasts and video presentations in the Australian golf mediascape.
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Brisbane golfer Mick McLoughlin did something amazing last week to raise money for Ronald McDonald House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxs9BGv00xA
Mick McLoughlin played a remarkable 2001 holes in 7 days. That’s an incredible 110 rounds of golf, an average of 16 rounds of golf a day to smash the world record and raise over $250,000 for Ronald McDonald House.
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