Here is a nice reminder about the rules of golf relating to practising during a round.
We’ve already talked about Jordan’s Spieth’s bizarre one-hole disqualification during last week’s Presidents Cup so we thought we should just cover the other major rules incident involving India’s Anirban Lahiri.
Read MoreThe Dan Plan project has been abandoned due to injury and Dan is only just starting to deal it.
A few years ago we had the pleasure of meeting, talking and playing golf with Dan McLaughlin from The Dan Plan. You may recall that Dan had set out at the age of 30 to spend 10,000 hours of deliberate practise to see if he could become a professional golfer.
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A golfer has just played golf across 2000km in Mongolia. And his mate caddied for him the whole way.
Good friends Adam Rolston and Ron Rutland decided to play the longest ever golf hole by trekking across 2000km of central Mongolia. Rolston would hit the golf ball while Rutland would pull the clubs and equipment on a make-shift cart to raise money for Laureus’ children’s sports charity.
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Golf Magazine have published their biennial list of the world’s best golf courses with seven Australian courses featuring on the list.
Seven Australian golf courses are ranked in Golf Magazine’s 2017 list of the world’s best golf courses that is topped once again by Pine Valley in New Jersey.
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So it turns out these photographs of people playing golf with a fire burning in the background is totally real.
We resisted the urge to quickly post this photo when it crossed our desk last week. There is no way this photo could be real, it had to be photoshopped.
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There is no shortage of golf podcasts to listen to; but here are some of our favourites.
Golf podcasts have been a thing for a while now but it seems that in the past couple of years, they’ve multiplied with plenty of great listening on offer.
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Golf writers Rohan Clarke and Darius Oliver are worried about the future for many Australian golf courses as local councils and developers start to circle.
Darius Oliver at Planet Golf has given an update on the troubles ahead for Manly’s Warringah Golf Club that looks set to lose nine holes.
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Golf Australia’s ground-breaking Inside The Ropes podcast will continue for a second season.
Media release:
GA digital director John Sutherland announced a second season of Inside The Ropes will start this week after great feedback on the show’s initial 10-week run.
“We’re very excited with the show’s reach in such a short timeframe,” Sutherland said.
Read MoreCape Wickham golf course has been snapped up to the tune of $16 million.
The Australian Financial Review has reported that Cape Wickham Golf Links has been purchased by a mystery Vietnam based investor for almost $16million.
Course developer and founder Duncan Andrews put the course up for sale earlier this year after establishing the world class golf course and declining to be involved in any further resort and hospitality development for the site.
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We’ve been testing out the new Garmin Golf Approach S60 GPS watch. A review is coming in the next few weeks but here is the video while taking it out of the box for the first time.
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