Royal County Down tops the list, nine Australian golf courses ranked among the world’s greatest.
Golf Digest have released their biennial rankings of what they consider to be the World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses and two of the biggest talking points will centre around a new number one, and King Island’s Cape Wickham debuting at number 26 in the world.
Read MoreGolf Australia Magazine’s list of Australia’s best golf courses have been shook up with a brand new course jumping into the top 5.
Disclosure: Along with 23 other judges, I am on Golf Australia Magazine’s golf course ranking panel and contributed to the most recent list of Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses.
Read MoreTom Doak is the course designer behind a new, reversible golf course in the US.
Tom Doak is one of the world’s most, interesting, sought after golf course designers right now, and one of his most recent projects has a unique reversible design allowing it to be played forwards and backwards.
Read MoreOne of Sydney’s busiest golf courses has launched a new way to tackle slow play.
One of the scourges of modern golf is slow play and is a known factor in keeping golfers away from the golf course. As one of the busiest golf courses in the country, Moore Park Golf in Sydney have launched a new pace of play initiative designed to speed of play and make the game more enjoyable.
Read MoreStrangely enough, great golf courses aren’t just the ones you play well on.
The Golf Channel’s ‘The Morning Drive‘ program spent each day last week talking about golf course design and architecture, featuring segments on the philosophy of a great golf course, and talking about some of the world’s most iconic golf courses and golf holes.
Read MoreTwo groups playing in the annual Robert Allenby Golf Day added a 1 to their card yesterday, thanks to Jarrod Lyle.
This is a great story. Jarrod Lyle was helping out at the annual Robert Allenby Golf Day that raises money for Challenge – supporting kids with cancer when he nailed two aces!
Read MoreFour changes to the Rules of Golf are set to come into effect on January 1, 2016.
If you’re still a little confused or interested in the new changes to the rules of golf that are coming into effect on January 1, 2016, this is worth a listen.
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We got a first-hand look at the two new golf courses down on King Island a few weeks ago and they’re both destined to become two of Australia’s best.
If you haven’t already heard, the most exciting news in Australian golf right now is the opening of two new golf courses on King Island.
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Four new changes to the rules of golf to come into effect on January 1, 2016.
Golf governing bodies the R&A and the USGA have announced their rules and revisions for golf for 2016. In addition to the much-publicised anchoring ban, they’ve made three other changes to the rules of golf which will come into effect on January 1, 2016.
Read MoreThe Adelaide Messenger reported on a cool story of a two members at Thaxted Park Golf Club in Adelaide finding a golf ball heavily embedded in a tree.
How did it get there? Well it looks as though it lodged in the tree some time in the 1970s or 1980s and the tree continued to grow completely around it.
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