Watching The Open Championship is always a wonderful reminder of just how good we have it in Australia when it comes to playing golf.
The Australian golf landscape is a unique one that flies in the face of the perception that golf is a rich man’s sport which is largely inaccessible to the masses.
Read MoreOne of Australia’s most iconic golf courses is set for a major redesign.
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Royal Sydney Golf Club is set for a golf course makeover and Olympic golf course designer Gil Hanse has been appointed as the lead architect to complete the job.
Read MoreSydney’s Liverpool golf Club has a brand new water feature courtesy of a light plane crash.
Our new water feature on the 10th hole pic.twitter.com/WtW3VLHb3m
— Liverpool Golf Club (@Liverpool_GC) July 21, 2016
The ABC have reported that a light plane had to make an emergency landing this afternoon with engine failure and finished up in the lake next to the 10th hole at the Liverpool Golf Club in Sydney’s south-west.
Read MoreGolf Australia have released the 2015 Golf Club Participation report, which shows a slowing of golf club membership decline.
Golf Australia, with Golf Management Australia (GMA) have released their annual report on golf club participation in Australia.
The report gives an overview of Australian golf club members, breaking down the numbers by gender, age and geographical areas.
Read MoreAfter great success in earlier years, GOLF MONTH will be back in Australia in October.
Those of you who read this site regularly are most likely already keen golfers but if you know someone who has shown interest in the game, but never made it for the first tee, then GOLF MONTH may be the thing for them.
Read MoreWe were lucky enough to be part of the Australian media team to cover The Amateur Golf World Cup in New Caledonia a few weeks ago.
The Amateur Golf World Cup took place in New Caledonia a few weeks ago, with golfers representing coming from all over the world to represent their country.
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Not so big on ambrose golf? Maybe Gentsomes is more your cup of tea.
Here is a golf format that is a little obscure because it’s not played as often as the more popular Ambrose format.
Similar to Ambrose, a Gentsomes team is made up of four players and all players play their own golf ball from the tee.
Read MoreMark Twain is often quoted as having said that “golf is a good walk spoiled”, but the problem is it’s wrong. It’s certainly not in any of Twain’s written works, in fact there are no records of him ever uttering it at all.
In my latest article for Golf Link I argue that very rarely is “golf a good walk spoiled” – a quote often misattributed to Mark Twain.
Read MoreWe’re hanging out in New Caledonia this week covering the Amateur Golf World Cup for iseekgolf.com
My piece on the event will be up on the iseekgolf website in the coming days but in the mean time I thought I’d share a few photos from the stunning Sheraton Deva Resort and Spa golf course where the event in being held.
Read MoreThis is tough to watch, especially once you’ve heard the punchline, but that’s how it was told to me by none other than the unfortunate golfer himself.
This video has been bouncing around the internet for a while now but it turns out it this is the bunker on the fourth hole at St Andrews Beach and it was Colyn Graham who attempted to play the shot.
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