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Golf Australia Magazine share their 2023 list of Australia’s Top-100 Public Access Courses

January 20, 2023

If you’ve picked up the January 2023 issue of Golf Australia Magazine you’ll already have seen their biennial list of Australia’s Top-100 Public Access Courses.

If you didn’t, you can now check them out online at the Golf Australia Magazine website. Golf courses in Tasmania and Victoria fair very well once again but there are 16 courses on the list this year that weren’t in the rankings two years ago.

Arm End golf course back on track after appointing new course designers

January 19, 2023

After a period when everything went quiet, it seems like the Arm End golf course project is back on track.

We were very excited when we first heard the news that the incredible Arm End location near Hobart was going to become a golf course.

The peninsula juts out into the River Derwent south of Hobart with spectacular views in all directions.

23 Australian golf courses you should play in 2023

January 6, 2023

Get off the beaten track, or stay in the middle lane and play a bunch of great, lesser-known Australian golf courses in 2023.

We all know you should play Royal Melbourne if you ever get the opportunity, a golf trip to Barnbougle is bliss, and New South Wales Golf Club is a spectacular experience.

Check out these photos from Greenskeeper’s Revenge day at Australian golf clubs

January 4, 2023

There is a growing tradition at Australian golf clubs that pits the greenskeepers against the golfers.

Each year, in the week before Christmas, several golf clubs are giving the greenskeepers a license to mess with golfers and set up a diabolical golf course.

Flagsticks in bunkers, haystacks in front of a tee box, and greens riddled with sand buckets are just some of the methods employed by greenskeepers at some of Australia’s golf courses.

Watch Ron Chopper attempt to make a hole-in-one with 100 golf balls, and succeed!

December 13, 2022

We’ve shared a few videos from Ron Chopper but perhaps none greater than this one.

Ron Chopper decided to hit 100 golf balls in an attempt to make a hole-in-one and donate $1000 to charity.

The 112-yard 9th hole at Lake Claremont golf course is the venue – and, spoiler alert… he didn’t need anywhere near 100 balls to get the job done.

MADNESS Augusta National’s 13th hole is now a good 50 yards longer

November 24, 2022

Golf is choosing to expand its playing arena to suit the equipment rather than roll back the equipment to suit its golf courses.

While rumoured to be happening for a while, Eureka Earth’s latest aerial photograph of the changes to Augusta National’s iconic 13th hole is jaw-dropping.

Thinking of getting a home golf simulator? All your questions answered

November 22, 2022

How much room do you need to get a home golf simulator? How accurate are they? And most importantly, how much do they cost?

Home golf simulators used to be for mega-rich golfers only, but I’ve been seeing more and more on social media and had the feeling they’ve become more compact and affordable.

Check out these incredible photos of the flooding at Yarrawonga Mulwala and Cowra Golf Clubs

November 16, 2022

Torrential rains on the already water-soaked ground are causing widespread flooding across interior parts of south-eastern Australia. The floods, well documented across Australia’s news outlets are devastating local communities with houses being torn from their foundations, businesses ruined and lives lost.

Large parts of country Victoria and New South Wales have copped extreme flooding in the past few weeks, with high flood waters predicted to soon impact South Australia as the water moves downstream.

R&A and USGA announce the 2023 update to the Rules of Golf

November 8, 2022

A simplified rule for relief, a new rule for replacing damaged clubs, and omitting your handicap from a scorecard is no longer a penalty under a range of new changes to the Rules of Golf.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSR5E3Ghvd0

Media Release

The R&A and the United States Golf Association today announced the 2023 changes to the Rules of Golf, with groundbreaking new modifications for people with disability, and a global modernisation of the way in which the rules are made available.

Kings of Leon drummer blasts Sydney golf course “no tattoo policy”

October 25, 2022

Exclusive Sydney golf club enforces “no tattoo policy” on Kings of Leon drummer.

American rock band Kings of Leon are back in Australia to perform a bunch of concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.

Before their first gig in Mildura this weekend, drummer Nathan Followill headed out for a round of golf at one of Sydney’s more exclusive golf courses only to be told to cover up his tattoos before playing.