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Inside Golf’s Andrew Crockett loves his golf, chatting with celebrities and promoting all things to do with charitable causes and the many ways golf assists in raising awareness and much needed funds. That being the case, this month he was in his element when grasping the chance to interview former Australian cricket captain and avid […]
HE’D agree, it was a long time coming. The resume read seven DP victories (he scored an eighth recently) four Ryder Cup appearances, three times on the winning European team while individually boasting an impressive 70 per cent win rate. He is currently fourth and has also been a constant in the top 10 over […]
Magenta Shores on the NSW Central Coast and the Oatlands and Strathfield Golf Clubs in Sydney have been confirmed as host venues for significant events in 2026. The 2026 Australian Women’s Classic, co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) and WPGA Tour of Australasia, with a prize purse of €350,000 (approx. $600,000) will be played […]
Josh Geary and Sue Oh were Vic Open champions in 2025. Who wins the 13th staging of the event at 13th Beach in 2026? THE 2026 Vic Open will celebrate a quirky milestone when hosted for the 13th time at the 13th Beach Golf Links in January next year. Golf Australia announced that it is […]
Elvis Smiley experiences the exhilaration of smoking a ball with his driver off the fairway at the BMW Golf Cup National Final. HE might be the reigning Australian PGA champion, one of the most exciting players in world golf, but until Nick O’Hern showed him how, Elvis Smylie had never hit a driver from a […]
FORMER playing peers of Matthew Goggin during his days as a talented golf professional say he was a lovely bloke off the course but extremely hard on himself on it. “To be honest, he was hard work out on the golf course the way he beat himself up when he made a mistake,” one said. […]
IT’S long been regarded as one of the best golf layouts in Australia. Yet big changes are occurring at the renowned Newcastle Golf Club at Fern Bay, Newcastle, near the mouth of the mighty Hunter River. And one of Australia’s leading course designers Bob Harrison is leading the way as the club has begun major […]
WITH its dramatic scenery, tree-lined fairways, undulating greens and overall variety of holes, the Hilltop course at Mollymook never fails to deliver a memorable golfing experience. Number 38 on Inside Golf’s Australia’s Top 100 Public Golf Experiences, readers and industry experts agreed that Mollymook, located some three hours from Sydney on the NSW South Coast, […]
SO often new mothers feel isolated and disconnected from their friends, work and hobbies. It is a problem for young mums around the world and in some cases can lead to postnatal depression. Now progressive thinking women who are members at the beautiful 13th Beach complex at Barwon Heads on the Bellarine Peninsula have come […]
IT’S the dream of every club golfer to record that elusive hole-in-one at least once in a lifetime. But for 85-year-old Malcolm Coleman, who plays his golf at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, once has never been enough. Since first picking up a club 60 years ago, Malcolm has achieved the rare feat five […]
A group at Brisbane’s Carbrook Golf Club became so frustrated at one of their mates ‘pulling the handbrake’ to protect his handicap that they agreed the player with the worst score each day would have to play his next round using a pink golf bag. Little did the group of four golfers realise their initiative […]
HE’S travelled the world, was a touring professional, became a senior administrator at Golf Queensland, and has been a rules official at numerous Australian Opens. He even worked for a year at the Guinness factory in Dublin. But Scott Wagstaff has a special love for Carbrook, a small golf club situated in the south-eastern suburbs […]
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The challengers for the Stonehaven Cup lining up FOR those without a ticket, don’t wait too much longer or you will miss out, with the 2025 Australian Open shaping as the most eagerly anticipated since the days Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player ruled the world’s fairways and greens, or to a time when a ‘Shark’ […]
WHEN Elvis Smylie scored his breakthrough victory in the Western Australian Open just over a year ago, his immediate goal was modest enough – to finish in the top three on the Aussie circuit and earn status on the DP World Tour. That objective was achieved just a few weeks later when the Gold Coast […]
MIKE Harwood says winning the Australian PGA, famously stopping Greg Norman’s winning run of nine events, was a huge part of his career. “It always will be, as I’m sure it will be the same for the person who wins (the 2025 BMW PGA Championship at Royal Queensland) later this month,” Harwood said. “It will […]
In Florida during September, Gary Player was already celebrating his 90th birthday (officially November 1st) with his characteristic zest. With the Australian Open returning to Royal Melbourne after 30 years, the seven-time champion recalled Australia’s golfing glory days of the 1960s and 70s, while remembering some of our greatest players. Andrew Crockett spoke with Player […]
Barnbougle Dunes. WE asked for your help in a nationwide call to action and Inside Golf readers certainly delivered, more than 3,000 offering their educated opinions as to which public golf facilities they believed to be Australia’s best. When coupled with the ratings from our panel, which comprised writers and editorial contributors, industry experts, […]
SELDOM does a ‘gun’ golfer turn professional then go out and win at their first start in a tournament. Sure, some superstars of the game have done it. Now you can add Hannah Reeves name to that elite list following last month’s Ford New South Wales Women’s Open Regional Qualifier at Mollymook Golf Club’s Hilltop […]
Minami Inoue receives the Pampling Plate from Marge Pampling, whose son Rod sponsors the event. APART from a junior club championship, which he doesn’t count because only one other kid entered, Minami Inoue had nothing to show for his seven-year golf career until the beginning of 2025. “I’d won nothing,” said the 21-year-old who has […]
Winners are grinners (from left) – Vikram Pawah, the CEO of BMW in Australia, A grade winner Scott Sibson, women’s winner Sandra Wang, B grade winner John Palombo and BMW brand ambassador Elvis Smylie. IT’S the largest international amateur tournament in the world, with more than 100,000 golfers from nearly 50 countries battling it out […]
Japan’s Asaji a playoff winner in Singapore JAPAN’S Yosuke Asaji captured the Moutai Singapore Open title in dramatic fashion, defeating Korea’s Jeunghun Wang in a sudden-death play-off, while Kevin Yuan led the Australian contingent at the event played at the New Course at The Singapore Island Country Club. Asaji became the first Japanese winner of […]
A LIV contract on the line for Hensby An International Series event and a tournament which is a part of a nine-event schedule supported by the LIV Golf League, the 2025 Moutai Singapore Open tees off at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) later today. The cream of the Asian Tour, combined with 15 Australians […]
Ross Watson studies the layout of the Caloundra golf course – his first and last design project. IT WAS just chance that Ross Watson, who has designed more Australian golf courses than perhaps any other golf architect, chose to retire to Caloundra, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. By coincidence, it was at Caloundra that Watson began […]
MASSIVE changes are afoot at Port Kembla Golf Club with plans for a considerable upgrade to the course and club. Members of Port Kembla Golf Club and Wests Illawarra have voted on a proposal to transform their golf club into a premier golfing and entertainment hub. They have given golf entertainment company Swing Factory the […]
PERFECTLY placed near the NSW-Victoria border, Rich River Golf Club is set to become even more attractive following plans to add a new 23-room, four-star accommodation facility to the club by the middle of 2026. The new facility, to be known as Reflections, has been hailed as a major investment in the club’s future and […]
RONALD Stewart earned bragging rights as the best golfer in the Brisbane jockey ranks by defeating a field that included Melbourne Cup winner Robbie Dolan in the inaugural BMW Australian PGA Jockey Challenge. Contested at Royal Queensland Golf Club, which will host this year’s BMW Australian PGA Championship from November 27-30, Stewart shot a round […]
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Can a ‘Fox’ steal the Australian PGA title? HE will have to beat a field including the cream of Australia’s golfing talent however Ryan Fox will be on a mission to become the first New Zealander to win the BWM Australian PGA Championship in more than 25-years. A two-time winner in the US in 2025 […]
WITH a global legacy, BMW’s commitment to golf is far from a marketing gimmick – it’s a long-standing, strategic partnership that has been in motion for decades. The BMW International Open in Germany has featured on the European Tour schedule since 1989, the BMW PGA Championship, played at Wentworth in the UK for over 40 […]
HE may have missed the cut, but nobody left the Northern Territory quite as happy as 21-year-old professional Jeff Guan. The young Sydneysider completed one of the most remarkable comebacks in golf when he played his first serious tournament, the NT Open, after losing the sight of his left eye in a freak accident on […]
Victorian Andrew Martin claimed a third PGA Tour of Australasia title in winning the Tailor-made Building Services NT PGA Championship. A last round 71 on a day where players battled 34-degree heart and blustery winds which baked the Palmerston Golf and Country Club course, was enough for Martin to register a 13-under par tournament total […]
STEWART Ginn is in a reflective mood sitting on the banks of the River Kwai in Thailand. He is not long back from a train trip to visit the war memorial honouring Australians who lost their lives on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway. Twelve allied soldiers lost their lives, 250,000 were forced into labour camps and […]
The Singapore Open – back where it belongs THE Singapore Open, a tournament with a long and storied history is back where it belongs as a major event on the Asian Tour schedule. Last played in 2022, The Moutai Singapore Open returns in 2025 as one of 10 International Series events to be played on […]
Michael Campbell plants a kiss on the US Open trophy. (Photo courtesy Bernie McGuire – Getty) By Bernie McGuire IT doesn’t seem like 20 years ago. Yet it was a Monday morning in June when golf fans all over Australia and just about every person in the Land Of The Long White Cloud ground to […]
Ryder Cup – the stats don’t lie Keegan Bradley will captain team USA at the Ryder Cup. Tweet
IT’S not putting too fine a point on it to suggest Royal Melbourne and Adam Scott have long had a ‘bromance’ going. It began almost as soon as Scott appeared on the professional golf arena in the 1990’s, with RM immediately loving the way the young Queenslander carried himself on and off the golf course. […]
Sydney amateur Daley Loumanis, who beat the pros at South Wests Rocks, alongside Jayden Cripps after the pair secured places in the field for the upcoming NSW Open. SEVERE weather conditions played a major role, but some talented young as well as a few more ‘senior’ golfers prevailed at Golf NSW events played around the […]
KHAN Pullen began his golfing career with the same dream as that of his now famous pupils, travelling the world playing golf for millions of dollars. After finishing his apprenticeship at what was then New Brighton Golf Club in Sydney’s west, Khan grabbed the clubs and played in Australia and Asia with early success on […]
BE a part of history, have your say and help us decide. Inside Golf is compiling a list of Australia’s 100 best public golf experiences and we are launching a nationwide call to action. Now in our 20th year, this is Inside Golf Magazine’s first course rankings list and we want you, passionate golfers and […]
