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Adam Scott staying sharp during coronavirus lockdown in Australia

Adam Scott broke a course-record while working on his golf game on the Sunshine Coast.

Adam Scott has been seeing out the coronavirus pandemic back home in Queensland and he’s been making sure his game is ready for whenever the PGA Tour gets back underway.

The 2013 Masters champion has been seen at Royal Queensland Golf Club, home to this year’s Australian PGA Championship, as well as sneaking in a round at one of the lesser-known golf courses in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

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Golf product review videos with Alex Etches and GolfBox TV

If you’re a golf equipment junkie and you’re looking for golf-related stuff to watch during the coronavirus lockdown, you should check out Alex Etches golf review videos.

Etches has been doing stacks of great, fun reviews down his Golfbox TV Youtube Channel for some time now, covering not just the latest legal golf equipment but taking a look at some very strange golf equipment in the process.

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Putt18 indoor putting game review

This indoor putting mat brings with it a game element that will appeal to more than just golfers.

In these strange days of homebound isolation, I was pleased to receive the Putt18 putting game mat for review.

For many golfers, hitting ball after ball at the same target can get boring pretty quickly, especially for the more social golfer.

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Golf’s crusade to keep playing not a good look for the game

Australian golf media have weighed in on the on-again, off-again situation of playing golf amid the COVID-19 epidemic.

Can you play golf right now, or not? Astoundingly, there is no simple answer with governments and golf’s ruling bodies across Australia giving confusing, often conflicting advice.

I borrowed a couple of lines for the title for this post.

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Tom Doak sits down to chat to Erik Anders Lang: video

I was going to preface this one with “One for the golf architecture nerds”, but I think many golfers will get something out of Erik Anders Lang’s informal chat with golf course designer Tom Doak.

Doak is one of the great golf courses designers of our time having designed Barnbougle Dunes with Mike Clayton, Cape Kidnappers, Tara Iti, Pacific Dunes at Bandon Dunes, and the new Gunnamatta course at The National.

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