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Aussie summer of golf excites Scott

Aussie summer of golf excites Scott

By Michael Davis ADAM Scott is making an emotional homecoming after three years to have another tilt at his home country’s national Open.  Scott, 42, still ranked inside the top 30 players in the world, will tee it up in the Australian Open at Victoria and Kingston Heath golf clubs from December 1-4.  Scott’s impressive 2022 […]

I want more action, says Cam Davis

I want more action, says Cam Davis

THERE’S no place like home and for young Sydneysider Cameron Davis, it feels like years since he’s been able to return to his home club at Roseville (and Monash) and catch up with all his old friends. Actually, it has! It’s been almost three years since Davis has been able to return home and now […]

Vic Open returns to 13th Beach

Vic Open returns to 13th Beach

By Michael Davis THE Vic Open is coming back to 13th Beach on the Bellarine Peninsula for 2023 and 2024. Golf Australia announced it would be staged at 13th Beach Golf Links near the village of Barwon Heads for the 10th consecutive time from February 9-12. A player and fan favourite, the tournament which includes titles […]

Harrison off to a good start on the PGA Tour

Harrison off to a good start on the PGA Tour

IT didn’t take Harrison Endycott long to find his feet on the US PGA Tour. Playing in his first event after graduating from the Korn Ferry Tour, the 26-year-old impressed onlookers at the $8m Fortinet Championship at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California last month. He carded rounds of 72-70-65-72 – 279 (nine-under par) […]

Smyth gets monkey off back and banks $1m

Smyth gets monkey off back and banks $1m

AUSTRALIAN Travis Smyth finally got the monkey off his back and won his maiden title on the Asian Tour when he recorded an impressive two-shot victory in the $US700,000 Yeangder TPC in late September. The 27-year-old Sydneysider drew on a season of strong performances and near misses to fire his second successive six-under-par 66 for […]

Brother and sister act at Aussie Open

Brother and sister act at Aussie Open

AUSTRALIAN golf’s dynamic duo, Minjee and Min Woo Lee, are set to light up the Australian Open next month with their brother-sister act. Golf Australia confirmed that both the siblings from Perth will tee it up in the historic first mixed-gender Open at Victoria Golf Club and Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne from December […]

LIV Golf unbelievable, says Wade Ormsby

LIV Golf unbelievable, says Wade Ormsby

EARLIER this year Adelaide-born Wade Ormsby switched from playing the DP World Tour (European Tour) to the LIV Golf Invitational Series. Last month the 42-year-old was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for LIV Golf’s event at Royal Greens Golf and Country Club and that’s where Inside Golf reporter Shawne McKenna caught up with him to find […]

WPGA Tour celebrates 50th anniversary

WPGA Tour celebrates 50th anniversary

IT all started 50 years ago when South Australian businessman and keen golfer Alan Gillott had a light-bulb moment while reading a golf magazine article featuring American female teaching professional Jeanette Rector.  Right then, Alan thought to himself: “Why can’t we have women professional golfers in Australia?” This inspired Alan to do some research into […]

The Grange GC appoints first woman president

The Grange GC appoints first woman president

By Michael Davis SOUTH Australia’s Grange Golf Club has elected its first woman president.  Nicolle Rantanen Reynolds officially became the club’s 25th president at the Annual General Meeting in September. Ms Rantanen Reynolds replaced Bruno Battistella, who was the second longest serving president in the club’s history.  He held the office for eight years.  Prior […]

LIV Golf announces multi-year commitment to bring league events to Australia

The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, South Australia’s capital city, to host the country’s debut LIV Golf Tournament April 21-23 as part of 2023 LIV Golf League Schedule By LIV Golf Adelaide, Australia and West Palm Beach, FL (November 13, 2022): LIV Golf today announced a multi-year commitment to bring LIV Golf League events to Australia […]

Major changes taking place at Metung Country Club

Major changes taking place at Metung Country Club

RENOVATIONS are in full swing at Metung Country Club, formerly known as Kings Cove Golf Club, located in Metung on the Gippsland Lakes.  Metung Hot Springs recently took over management of the club, which boasts a Ted Parslow-designed nine-hole public access golf course. Clubhouse facilities are being reimaged with a unique aesthetic, pairing the relaxed […]

Brian Taylor-made for Yamaha cart

Brian Taylor-made for Yamaha cart

HIS short game has always been his strength, but now Brian Taylor’s drive is “smooth” after taking delivery of a brand-new $10,000 Yamaha golf cart he won in a chip-off competition. To recap, Brian won the golf cart in a 50m chip-off against 13 other club golfers at the Handiskins national final at Royal Pines […]

It’s a diamond year for Charlie and Margaret

It’s a diamond year for Charlie and Margaret

RENOWNED golf coach Charlie Earp and his beloved wife Margaret will celebrate something special this month – their 60th wedding anniversary. Yes, the happy couple tied the knot on October 4 way back in 1962 when Greg Norman, the man Charlieguided to world number one, was still in short pants and attending primary school.  And […]

Associate pros meet the Challenge

Associate pros meet the Challenge

GOLFERS braved a windswept St Andrews Beach golf course on the Mornington Peninsula for a very good cause recently. The occasion was the Kieser Australia St Andrews Beach Pro-Am organised by St Andrews Beach PGA associate professional James Bowen, who was determined to raise much-needed funds for Challenge – supporting kids with cancer. The day […]

Like Smith, Guan wins at TPC Sawgrass

Like Smith, Guan wins at TPC Sawgrass

MAYBE there’s something in the water which seemingly threatens almost every shot at the famous Tournament Players Club in Sawgrass, Florida. Or maybe it just suits the ‘eye’ of the Aussies who have done so well there. Now young Sydneysider Jeffrey Guan has thrust his name up there beside Cameron Smith as a 2022 winner […]

Watch the best amateur at Keperra Bowl

Watch the best amateur at Keperra Bowl

EXCITEMENT is building for the 18th edition of the prestigious Keperra Bowl to be played at the picturesque Keperra Country Golf Club in Brisbane from October 11-14. The 72-hole Keperra Bowl is a Golf Australia Order of Merit and R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking Event. The event always attracts the cream of the amateur crop […]

Aussie golfers cash in on PGA Tour

Aussie golfers cash in on PGA Tour

THE current year has truly provided the Australian golfing public with some outstanding performances on the US PGA Tour. Those performances have proven extremely fruitful for seven of the 13 players on the tour. Still, only two Australian players, world number two Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert, recorded victories.  Smith won three times – the […]

Jed Morgan LIV-ing the dream

Jed Morgan LIV-ing the dream

FOR some observers of the LIV Golf Invitational Series, young Aussie Jediah Morgan is considered one of the players making up the numbers, but the Australian PGA champion is undeterred simply because he is laughing all the way to the bank. In five LIV events the mullet-wearing 22-year-old diehard Broncos fan has won more than […]

Northcote GC survives the ‘cut’

Northcote GC survives the ‘cut’

By Michael Davis ONE of the main people responsible for saving the Northcote Public Golf Course had no intention of gloating over his rivals. Spokesman for the Northcote Golf and Community Hub group, Bill Jennings, simply described the compromise voted on by the Darebin City Council as a victory for common sense.  “Common sense has […]

It’s never ‘over’ when it comes to golf

It’s never ‘over’ when it comes to golf

THEY’RE golf’s ultimate power couple. The only problem is their unabashed love of sport actually keeps them off the golf course, rather than on it. And despite golf being one of their great loves, life does come first. Oh, and cricket as well. In case you’re still guessing, I am referring to a couple of […]

Patterson River Golf Club raises the bar

Patterson River Golf Club raises the bar

THE excited chatter among members at Victoria’s Patterson River Golf Club (PRGC) continues to grow as they settle into the club’s newly renovated 19th hole.  PRGC membership and operations manager Jessica Gagliardi said the club’s directors had identified that the previous bistro was a little tired. So, after consultation with its membership base, the club […]

Vale Peter Jones

Vale Peter Jones

CAROLYN Jones won’t ever forget the first time she met her future husband. She was at school in Grafton (NSW) in the mid-1950s when ‘new boy’ Peter Jones turned up after his dad, a policeman, was transferred to the town. “I first met Peter at school in Grafton,” Carolyn recalled. “When I was about 14 […]

US colleges eying young Aussie Kai

US colleges eying young Aussie Kai

By Peter Owen KAI Komulainen, the gifted Gold Coast youngster with the classic golf swing, stood on the 10th tee in the final round of the world’s biggest international junior tournament and, for a brief few seconds, allowed himself to think about winning. He’d just eagled the par-5 ninth hole at California’s famous Torrey Pines […]

Champions of the Murray

Champions of the Murray

THERE was some serious golf played and loads of fun and laughter at the Champions of the Murray final played at Tocumwal Golf and Bowls Club.  More than 50 finalists from the qualifying partner clubs took part in the final with Cobram Barooga Golf Club’s Carolyn Huggins and Margaret Rhode edging out Kristine Geary and […]

Visitors flock to Sunshine Coast’s week of winter golf

Visitors flock to Sunshine Coast’s week of winter golf

By Peter Owen IF the goal was to attract visiting golfers to Queensland during the quieter winter period, then this year’s Sunshine Coast Winter Classic ticked all the boxes. A sellout field turned up to play four of the region’s premier golf courses in a 72-hole amateur tournament aimed at club golfers. Players travelled from […]

Shark ban petty and a shame

Shark ban petty and a shame

FORMER television personality and politician, Derryn Hinch, would often end a story with the words, “shame, shame, shame” after someone had been wronged. Well, shame on the Royal and Ancient Golf Club for barring Greg Norman, a two-time Open Championship winner, from attending the traditional champions’ dinner at the 150th Open played at St Andrews. […]

FROM THIS … TO THIS! Cameron Smith the Invincible

FROM THIS … TO THIS! Cameron Smith the Invincible

By Peter Owen GRAEME Miller, the founder and president of the Invincibles Sunshine Coast Junior Golf Tour, remembers when Cameron Smith, a skinny 10-year-old with a handicap that matched his age, turned up for his first junior event. “He was a delightful young fellow,” Miller recalls. “He was always thinking of others, always helping – […]

Karrie Webb wins first senior title

Karrie Webb wins first senior title

Karrie Webb is back in the winner’s circle. The seven-time major champion held off Annika Sorenstam to win the Senior LPGA Championship and claim her first senior title. Webb, 47, fired a five-under par 67 in the final round for a four-shot victory at Salina Country Club. “It’s been a long time since I’ve had […]

Sanctuary Cove Golf Course – The Palms tees up further golf course enhancements

Sanctuary Cove Golf Course – The Palms tees up further golf course enhancements

Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club’s The Palms golf course will embark on an enhancement plan which will see further upgrades since its redesign was completed just over a decade ago.  Paul Mogford and Neil Crafter of Crafter + Mogford Architects, who have Melbourne’s renowned Metropolitan Golf Course and Barwon Heads Golf Course to their […]

Cam Smith joins elite group

Cam Smith joins elite group

CAMERON Smith joined a small but elite group of Aussies to win the British Open Championship when he rode a red-hot putter to victory to win the 150thBritish Open at the Home of Golf St Andrews. Smith gave Irish hero Rory McIlroy and young Norwegian Victor Hovland a start and a beating as he careered […]

WIN! A golf holiday  package for two!

WIN! A golf holiday  package for two!

INSIDE GOLF, Handiskins and Peter Lehmann Wines are offering a great prize to one lucky reader: a Golf Holiday Package for two people (twin share or king room) at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast from Wednesday, May 3 to Sunday, May 7, 2023.  The “Peter Lehmann Wines Golf Challenge Giveaway Package” is […]

The men who play golf as it was intended

The men who play golf as it was intended

By Peter Owen THEY’RE a devoted bunch, these hickory golfers. They see beauty in rusty old golf clubs that most of us would consign to the scrap heap. And they readily take responsibility for upholding the traditions and behaviours that have made golf such a special game. So they happily cop the jibes that greet […]

There’s no stopping Trevor

There’s no stopping Trevor

DOES Central Queensland golfer Trevor Tougher know the golf course at Yeppoon Golf Club like the back of his hand? You bet he does! After all, he is the club’s superintendent and last month won his umpteenth Men’s Open Championship when he fired rounds of 66-67 for a 133 total – nine-under par. “I’m not […]

Nambour pro wants to build a golf complex for intellectually disabled

Nambour pro wants to build a golf complex for intellectually disabled

By Peter Owen FOR the past eight years former Nambour pro Darrell Dalton has been conducting weekly golf clinics for intellectually handicapped people on the Sunshine Coast. What’s more, he and his wife Michelle operate a charity pro shop in downtown Nambour, raising funds through the sale of golf gear – much of it donated […]

As a sport, golf has most positive spin

As a sport, golf has most positive spin

A SURVEY conducted prior to the explosive golf war between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf has golf as the sport that amasses the most positive news coverage. Researchers at online ticket sales website livefootballtickets.com analysed 45,000 sports news articles over the past nine years (2013-2022) to find out which sporting codes received the best […]

At 50, Padraig Harrington reflects on his successful career

At 50, Padraig Harrington reflects on his successful career

THREE-TIME major winner and former European Ryder Cup team captain Padraig Harrington has shifted his focus now that he’s 50 years old and eligible to play on the PGA Tour Champions. The Irishman has made his presence felt on the PGA Tour Champions finishing tied for second at last month’s Rapiscan Systems Classic behind Kiwi […]

Leishman fancies his chances at St Andrews

Leishman fancies his chances at St Andrews

MARC Leishman will be the first to tell you that when it comes to the majors, the US Masters and The Open are the two that suit his game best.  The 38-year-old owns three top-10s in the Masters and three top-6s in The Open.  At press time, he still did not have a top-10 in […]

Minjee’s massive payday at US Women’s Open

Minjee’s massive payday at US Women’s Open

WEST Australian star Minjee Lee cruised to a four-shot victory at last month’s US Women’s Open, taming the stunning Pine Needles course in North Carolina and taking home an astonishing US$1.8m (AUD$2.5m) prize cheque. Apart from claiming the largest ever prizemoney cheque ever handed out in the history of women’s golf, Minjee’s win was also […]

John Deere committed to the game

John Deere committed to the game

PLAYING off a handicap of seven, John Deere’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, Luke Chandler, knows the satisfaction golf brings to those who play it and what it takes to build and maintain a good course.  “I love the challenge (of golf),” Mr Chandler said. “The feeling that you can continue to grow […]

Huntingdale Golf Club & Cranbourne Country Club now into the next phase of their partnership

At a historic night on Wednesday 8th June, the Huntingdale Golf Club members, by an overwhelming majority, voted in favour to proceed with the Club’s new OCM Master Plan.  The delivery of the Master Plan and the partnership with the Cranbourne Country Club will ensure the future sustainability of the Huntingdale Golf Club. The innovative […]