Golf Australia today announced participation figures not seen in 50 years of data collection, as the boom in golf gathers pace.
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Golf club memberships in Australia rose 6.3 percent for the calendar year 2020 to 409,970.
It is the biggest rise in membership figures (more than 24,000) seen since the numbers were first collated nationally in 1970.
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In the middle of Wimbledon Common in London lies a very interesting, and unique golf course which is home to two different golf clubs.
There is a lot going on in the latest episode of Adventures in Golf and Erik Anders Lang does his best to go over it several times as he visits the golf course in Wimbledon Common.
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Kingston Heath is one of the world’s best golf courses and this video shows off its greatness in just over two minutes.
Golf Australia Magazine’s Top-100 golf course rankings will be out next month. We’ll get to see how Australian golf courses are ranked once again and begin the biannual debate over which courses are the best, which courses have soared up the rankings and which ones are stiff to miss out.
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If it were interesting times for public golf before the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s got even more interesting post-pandemic.
Golf in Australia in 2019 was flatlining with public golf courses in particular under pressure from lack of memberships and under fire for using up too much space.
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This great footage of a mob of kangaroos charging up the fairway has been doing the rounds including being featured on Seven News.
Wendy Powick shared this video earlier this week of a mob of kangaroos interrupting a round of golf at Arundel Hills Golf Club on the Gold Coast.
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Golf Australia Magazine has listed 50 of Australia’s most fun short courses in a recent issue and we had almost as much fun reading them as it would be playing them.
After years of playing golf on many of the best golf courses in Australia – in club competitions, socially with friends or even alone in the long shadows at the end of the day – perhaps the most memorable experiences have been on short golf courses.
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Brisbane’s latest mini-golf sensation, TopStroke, opens in late November.
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Conveniently located 12km from the Brisbane CBD at Oxley Golf Club, TopStroke is set to become the go-to destination for golfers of all ability levels be they young or old!
TopStroke is the largest mini-golf facility in the country and offers a true putting challenge.
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The divot rule. It seems that every six months or so, the debate over whether golfers should get a free drop out of a divot resurfaces.
It’s perhaps the most annoying non-rule in golf; you don’t get free relief if your golf ball is lying in a divot.
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Golf Australia is excited to announce a major charity partnership with Cancer Council for The Longest Day, a brilliant initiative that raised $3.1 million for cancer research in 2020.
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The Longest Day is an endurance golf marathon designed to test skill, strength, and stamina.
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Ground-breaking research marks Australian golf’s new direction as it sets its sights on a solid path for post-pandemic growth.
Media release via Australian Golf Media
Officially launched today by the Australian Golf Industry Council – a collaboration of golf’s main industry bodies – the findings of the Nature Report are the most comprehensive on golf to date.
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