The rules of golf around the teeing ground changed at the start of the year, and this is one alteration that we missed.
It turns out that if your golf ball ends up behind where you just played from, you get to tee it up again and your playing two.
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It’s 17,000 kilometres from Sydney and Melbourne, but even that much distance can’t dull the magnetic pull of The Old Course on anyone who calls themselves a golfer. So if you’re travelling half a world away to visit St Andrews, here’s how to make the most of it.
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This is so cool that just had to share it here – despite its threadbare link to golf.
With hundreds of whales making their way up the eastern coast of Australia at the moment one of Australia’s best golf courses has a great vantage point.
This video was taken by our friend and former colleague Robbie Byrne yesterday where he was playing his bucket-listed New South Wales Golf Club for the first time.
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It turns out some golfers measure nearest the pin a little differently to others.
I had a reader ask me last week how exactly one should go about measuring nearest the pin.
Specifically I was asked whether you should measure the distance from your golf ball to the edge of the cup or to the centre of the hole?
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From the department of “Playing abandoned golf courses” comes this video of a bloke in jeans and thongs playing golf
Clearly from earlier this year when the weather was a little warmer, this bloke in jeans and thongs plays the old 18th hole at the abandoned Belair Park Golf Course in the Adelaide Hills.
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A wonderful campaign dubbed #DoingItForJarrod has just been boosted by the greatest golfer of all time.
Golf clubs around Australia have signed up to be a part of the #DoingItForJarrod days and now 18-time major winner Jack Nicklaus is also putting his support behind the concept.
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Golf technology has sent the golf ball traveling much further than in any time in history. Here is why there is still an upper limit.
Nice video from the team at Wired that takes a closer look at the technology of golf balls and golf clubs, and the reason there is still an upper limit on how far the golf ball can be hit.
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Golf is a game played between the ears as much as on the fairways, and I can’t help but wish there are a few things I’d known before I started playing.
Originally published at Golf Link, ( See them all here.) I’ve listed 13 things I wish I’d known before I began learning the game many years ago now – from the time it takes to play, to the art of playing a golf shot while a bird is swooping.
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The role of a caddie often gets overlooked, especially on the professional golf tours. Arguably they should “turn up, and shut up” but this movie puts them firmly in the spotlight.
And if the trailer is anything to go by, it could be a fun watch.
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The Victorian Premier, Hon Daniel Andrews MP, today officially opened Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club (PK). Official proceedings were followed by an exhibition match between Tour Professionals Geoff Ogilvy, and Marcus Fraser, and PK club champions.
Six years in the making, Peninsula Kingswood Country Club is the most significant sandbelt golf course redevelopment in Australia.
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