We stumbled upon this stunning drone footage of Oberon Golf Club, just west of the Blue Mountains and under three hours drive from Sydney.
As the video below outlines, Oberon golf course was designed by Al Howard who also played a role in designing Byron Bay, Tasmania, and St.Michael’s
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The remnants of the glory days of Terranora Lakes Country Club are still there for us to see.
From the department of abandoned golf courses comes this stunning drone footage of the now derelict Terranora Lakes Country Club in Bilambil Heights, just south of the border between New South Wales and Queensland.
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Greenkeepers at a country Victorian golf course are struggling to deal with flocks of birds destroying their greens.
Terang Golf Club, about two hours drive west of Melbourne often has trouble keeping the local bird population from digging up their greens.
But this year has been the worst in living memory with thousands of corellas pecking huge holes in many of their greens.
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Another month and another ill-informed, destructive newspaper article attacking public golf, and this time it comes via The Australian newspaper.
Nikki Gemmell is a wonderful Australian author and journalist but her latest opinion piece in The Australian “Reclaim the Fairways” is a woefully misguided and ill-informed attack on public golf.
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Channel 7 have reported on the new golf course soon to be constructed on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island.
The Cliffs, Kangaroo Island has been in the planning stages for many years but after a number of setbacks and planning hurdles to jump over, construction will commence in the next few months.
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Some golfers are wondering if drawing a line on your golf ball should be banned. But why? And why now?
Golfers have been drawing a line on the golf ball for alignment on the putting green for a long time. Recently some golf ball manufacturers have sold golf balls with the line (sometimes three of them) already on them “for improved putting accuracy”.
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Stuart Kerr has beautifully captured the final round of golf by this 95-year-old man from Adelaide.
One of the many postive things about golf is that by participating it plays a large role in keeping you healthy. And if you’re healthy you can keep playing for many years.
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Some stunning photos being shared around this week of The Home of Golf bathed in snow.
Tee times were put on hold at St.Andrews this week as cold weather (-8C) blanketed the region, including The Old Course is a thick layer of snow.
While not unusual, snow at The Old Course is always a beautiful thing.
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Big news, changes afoot. Professional golf may have to change to suit the golf courses, not the other way around.
Golf’s governing bodies, the R&A and USGA have released a couple of statements indicating they are seriously looking at ways to combat the ever-increasing distances professional golfers are hitting the golf balls.
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Cape Wickham and Barnbougle Dunes top this list of Australia’s top public access golf courses.
We love a golf list and we particularly love this biannual list published by Golf Australia Magazine of Australia’s best public access golf courses.
It means that anyone can read this list knowing full well they can go and play every golf course on it.
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