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New phone app touted as the ‘UberEats’ of golf

Fetched on the Fairway launches a mobile app for golfers to order food, drinks and golf gear delivered during a round of golf.

A new Australian-made golf app has launched aimed at delivering food and drink to golfers during a round of golf.

Fetched on the Fairway can be thought of as the ‘UberEats’ of golf offering a way to get food, drink and golf gear delivered to golfers on course via a GPS enabled phone app.

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Spectacular golf development approved for Kangaroo Island

The South Australian Government announced last month, that Development Authorisation had been granted to Kangaroo Island Links Pty Ltd for a revision to a previously approved golf development on pristine Kangaroo Island in Australia.

Known as The Cliffs, Kangaroo Island and constructed on a premium 600-acre parcel of ocean front land in Pelican Lagoon, the 18 hole golf course takes full advantage of the areas rolling sand dunes and sweeping coastal views.

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OPINION / It’s getting ridiculous, roll back the golf ball

A couple of Australia’s best golf writers have desperately called out to roll back the golf ball.

Some of the great golf courses worldwide are no longer capable of hosting a professional golf tournament because they aren’t long enough.

While distance doesn’t always correlate with difficulty, professional golfers are overpowering golf courses with improved athleticism and advanced technology, and to remain relevant; golf clubs are forced to lengthen the golf course.

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Holes-in-one: How long to wait when you’re expecting

Perceptions of success are always relative and there couldn’t be a much better example of this than golf.

by Henry Peters at iSeekGolf.com

The pinnacle in achievement a person’s golfing lifetime differs greatly depending on ability.

For Tiger Woods, it is holding all four majors at once, for a scratch golfer it might be a club championship while for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, it was the seemingly elusive sub-40 score for 18 holes which – according to local state-run media – he achieved in 1994 with a 34-under round of 38 in his first ever round of golf no less.

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