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15-marker Mick cleans up at Handiskins final

15-marker Mick cleans up at Handiskins final

… and Jamie ‘Hooks’ a fourth pro title THE owner of a Sunshine Coast carpet cleaning business sucked up the energy and atmosphere to win the Handiskins national final at Palm Meadows GC on the Gold Coast last month.  Mick Prince, who plays off a 15 handicap at Headland GC, qualified for the four-person final […]

Byron creates a buzz around Flinders

Byron creates a buzz around Flinders

It was a big day at Flinders for Byron Woods. General Manager, Jon Gahan, tells us there has been “a bit of a buzz” around the Flinders clubhouse recently as a result of some fairly unusual events on the charming, picturesque little Mornington Peninsula course. First and foremost, Gahan said, there have been three holes-in-one […]

Award-winning super Darryl Edwards remains tuned in to lighter side of life

Award-winning super Darryl Edwards remains tuned in to lighter side of life

DARRYL Edwards, the course superintendent at Burleigh Golf Club on the Gold Coast, is a man who enjoys the lighter (funny) side of life. And those who know him well know that when he’s in the mood he will whip out his harmonica and play a little blues. “I generally have it (harmonica) tucked away […]

It’s a tough school at RM 

It’s a tough school at RM 

By Michael Davies We could fill these pages with quirky tales and amazing club competitions held around the country every day. But this is one of the better ones to come out of Royal Melbourne recently.  Two time RM club champion, Harry Goakes (handicap +2), probably thought that he was a good chance to win […]

A calling for life 

A calling for life 

ASK any greenkeeper at any golf course and he’ll confirm it. It’s a calling for ‘life’. And seldom do you get the opportunity to share the spotlight with your comrades. Besides, it’s hard to squeeze that many ‘legends’ together in one room. Yet the NSW Golf Industry Awards were all about bringing golf’s many and […]

Oldest golf club is one of Queensland’s most modern

Oldest golf club is one of Queensland’s most modern

By Peter Owen IT was back in 1893 – when club founder James McIntosh was leading a push for North Queensland to become a separate state – that golfers first took to the fairways at Townsville Golf Club. Back then it was known as the North Queensland Golf Club and its first home was at […]

It is a dream come true for teen Dean Richards

It is a dream come true for teen Dean Richards

WHEN you’re 19 years old there aren’t too many things more appealing in life than golf, travelling and playing more golf. Well, maybe there’s one or two other things. Yet Dean Richards could barely contain his excitement after being accepted into a US college to continue a quickly-growing golf education. The Northern Beaches [Sydney] sportsman […]

How Beerwah is making its greens play even better

How Beerwah is making its greens play even better

By Peter Owen BEERWAH Golf Club, nestled at the foot of the Glasshouse Mountains, north of Brisbane, has always been renowned for the quality of its greens, many claiming they are the best on the Sunshine Coast. And officials of the popular hinterland club are determined to make them even better. Work has been taking […]

Golfers turn attention to Sunshine Spring Classic after winter success

Golfers turn attention to Sunshine Spring Classic after winter success

IT’S not hard to work out Queensland’s winter months are perfect for golf and is the reason why more than 100 golfers from all over the country turned up to play in the 72-hole Sunshine Winter Golf Classic at four of the region’s premier golf courses – Maroochy River, Peregian, Noosa Springs and Twin Waters. […]

The tee shot that Chloe, 16, will remember all her life

The tee shot that Chloe, 16, will remember all her life

By Peter Owen WHEN Chloe Veeran’s tee shot on the par-3 17th hole at Bunbury Golf Club dropped into the cup in early June her first thought was one of frustration. She knew the prize for an ace at the South West Open’s ‘party’ hole was a $60,000 vehicle, courtesy of event sponsor South West […]

David, 11, wins club champs

David, 11, wins club champs

IT’S too early to say ‘remember the name David Kang’, but perhaps it is a name to pencil in for the future. The 11-year-old, who plays off a 13 handicap at Cowra Golf Club in the central west region of NSW, recently won the club’s B grade championship. He returned rounds of 85-94-85-87 – 351 […]

New hole a hit at Links Hope Island

New hole a hit at Links Hope Island

THE revamped third hole at Links Hope Island Resort is now open for play and the reaction of the members and visitors to the newly-created par-4 has golfers enthusiastic about the change. The previous par-3 measuring 190 metres has been replaced with a short par-4 measuring 330 metres and with the previous hidden lake now […]

There’s no stopping age-breaker Bob

There’s no stopping age-breaker Bob

OCTOGENARIAN Bob Howe didn’t break his age until he was in his mid-70s, but since then he has been doing it as regular as clockwork. “My earliest round shooting below my age was a 74 at Mt Lawley Golf Club (Western Australia) at the age of 75,” Bob told Inside Golf after reading about Clive […]

Big things in store for little Tin Can Bay Country Club

Big things in store for little Tin Can Bay Country Club

By Peter Owen BRAD Robb, the energetic general manager of Tin Can Bay Country Club, 220km north of Brisbane, reckons his lack of interest in playing golf has been an enormous benefit to his club. “It means I have a broader outlook about what’s important for our club,” he said. “I can see what needs […]

Pelican Waters in play

Pelican Waters in play

THE renovations seem to have been going on forever, but Pelican Waters was scheduled to reopen for regular play on Saturday, July 1– although, it seems, without a cohort of members. The driving range and the main clubhouse building will, however, remain out of action until later in the year. Renovations began in 2020 and […]

Peter’s perfect pitch into Yamaha cart

Peter’s perfect pitch into Yamaha cart

ONE of the highlights of the Handiskins national final is a chipping contest that results in a club golfer driving away in a brand-new Yamaha golf cart valued at $15,000. This year 20 club golfers qualified for the chip-off at Royal Pines Resort where each player was allowed two 50-metre chip shots with the player […]

Juniors fill top 3 spots at Keperra club champs

Juniors fill top 3 spots at Keperra club champs

KEPERRA Country Golf Club’s junior golf program received a shot in the arm last month when teenagers filled the club championship’s top three podium spots. Wesley Hinton, 16, won the A grade championship after posting a four-round total of 285 to edge out fellow teenagers Jack Jones (287) and Ben Dowling (295) – both aged […]

Sea Eagles trio tackle game with top influencer

Sea Eagles trio tackle game with top influencer

FORGET the Ryder Cup for a moment – here is a match made in Heaven.  At least that’s the response you’d get from a few rugby league stars from the Manly Sea Eagles. The gun footballers thought they were dreaming when they turned up to Bayview Golf Club last month for a photo opportunity with […]

Melbourne’s iconic nine-holer turns 120

Melbourne’s iconic nine-holer turns 120

By Michael Davis ROYAL Park president, Bruce Sutherland, is a member of St Andrews in Scotland. “Luckily, I am a ‘country’ member which makes it affordable. It’s very dear otherwise.” But Bruce cherishes his membership at Royal Park just as dearly as he does that at the venerable home of the game of golf. Like […]

Love is in the air at Oakleigh GC

Love is in the air at Oakleigh GC

By Michael Davis OAKLEIGH Golf Club secretary Tim Anderson clearly has a sense of humour. He describes the recent successful merger of the men’s and women’s clubs “as always destined to be a marriage made in heaven”. Although he hastens to add it has probably been “four decades” in the making. Anderson’s matrimonial metaphors continue […]

GM Neil on course after court duty

GM Neil on course after court duty

FORMER basketball boss Neil Goffet has moved from the court to the course in his new role as general manager at Hawks Nest Golf Club. A former journalist at the Newcastle Herald, Goffet spent the past nine years as general manager at Newcastle Basketball where the association recorded incredible success during his reign. He replaces […]

Anglesea Golf Club elects first woman president

Anglesea Golf Club elects first woman president

VICTORIA’S Anglesea Golf Club located on the Great Ocean Road in the Surf Coast Shire has elected Jules Rolfe as its new president. In a high turn-out election, Jules Rolfe got the nod to become the first woman president of the club in its more than 70-year history. Rolfe is a keen golfer and lives […]

Part-timer Trent fresh for Maroochy River Open

Part-timer Trent fresh for Maroochy River Open

TRENT Butlin, who describes himself as a part-time golfer these days, has long had a love affair with the signature 18th hole at Maroochy River. The long-hitting Butlin once famously drove the green on this difficult, dog-leg hole which requires a tee-shot of at least 300 metres to clear the pond that guards the front […]

Invincibles Tour draws curtain on 20 years of developing golf champions

Invincibles Tour draws curtain on 20 years of developing golf champions

By Peter Owen AFTER 20 years, founder and president Graeme Miller has called time on the Invincibles Sunshine Coast Junior Golf Tour – a unique organisation that launched the career of Open champion Cameron Smith and hundreds of other talented Queensland golfers. “I’m not getting any younger and the workload has become extremely difficult,” said […]

Harry, Kate clean up at Invincibles awards

Harry, Kate clean up at Invincibles awards

HARRY Takis and Kate McFarlane, the golden couple of Queensland junior golf, had trouble taking home their booty, so many trophies did they collect at this year’s Invincibles Junior Golf Tour presentation night. Takis, 17, who made a rush trip to Noosa Springs for the function after competing in the Queensland PGA Championship at Nudgee, […]

WANTED: CLUB NEWS STORIES

WANTED: CLUB NEWS STORIES

WHAT is happening at your golf club? Inside Golf and readers of the magazine would love to know. As Australia’s most-read golfing publication, Inside Golf is always on the lookout for interesting news items that will help promote the game of golf to a wider audience. If you would like to see your golf club […]

50 up for Asquith’s loyal long-serving members

50 up for Asquith’s loyal long-serving members

MAYBE there were a few tall tales, but a lot more of them were true when a host of Asquith Golf Club members gathered last month to celebrate more than five decades of playing golf at the northern Sydney club. Asquith GC, led by general manager Mathew Furze, hosted a celebration dinner to acknowledge a […]

Taj returns to Noosa in style

YOUNG Taj Egea, who represented Noosa in junior pennant competition as a 10-year-old before relocating to Brisbane, returned to his old stamping ground in style early in November to win this year’s Ian Baker-Finch Junior Classic with a spectacular round of 68. Taj’s dad Andrew was the teaching pro at Noosa before he was appointed […]

Regan wins major CQ junior prize

Regan wins major CQ junior prize

GOLF Central Queensland held its first ever annual presentation night at Duaringa Golf Club where the players and their parents dressed up for the Hawaiian-themed event in late October. Duaringa’s Regan Carsburg easily won the inaugural Gurney and Gloria’s event courtesy of accumulating 151 points to be the overall junior golfer of the year (male […]

Keperra pair win medals

Keperra pair win medals

NOT even a fractured left foot could prevent Keperra Country Golf Club’s Dylan Price from winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics Australia National Games in Tasmania. Dylan was joined on the podium by fellow Keperra member Stephen Lawley, who won a silver medal. The pair was part of a 19-strong golf team representing […]

Andrew has 1000 reasons to keep going

Andrew has 1000 reasons to keep going

VORACIOUS golfer Andrew Lauder has always relished a golfing challenge so when his mates threw down the gauntlet he was quick to respond. In the late-1980s, Andrew and his golfing mates enjoyed playing as many different courses as possible, but they accused him of ‘dragging the chain’. “My golfing odyssey, or perhaps idiocy according to […]

Anything you can do …

Anything you can do …

THE rarest of birds, the albatross, landed not once but twice during the same round at Burleigh Golf Club on the Gold Coast.  Ryan Rodgers, who plays off +1, and seven marker Mike Williams (pictured) achieved the feat just 20 seconds apart at the ninth hole on Thursday, October 20. Mike picked up five valuable […]

Social spirit a fixture in northern NSW

Social spirit a fixture in northern NSW

IT’S become something of a tradition in the Northern Rivers of NSW. And the ‘social’ side of it just keeps golfers coming back year after year … for 50, in fact. Like so many great organisations, the idea sprang over a few beers with a few keen golfers in 1969. Now, five RSL social golf […]

Peter O’Malley named patron of the Nomads

Peter O’Malley named patron of the Nomads

FORMER Scottish Open champion and PGA life member Peter O’Malley has been named the new patron of Nomads Golf Australia. O’Malley takes over the role from golf legend Jack Newton who sadly passed away in April this year. Speaking recently from Thurgoona Golf and Country Club where he played in the NSW Senior Open Championship, […]

Durko makes the headlines at Headland Golf Club

Durko makes the headlines at Headland Golf Club

By Peter Owen FOR the past five years members of Headland Golf Club on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast have been receiving their very own unique weekly news bulletin, penned by one of the country’s best-known sports writers. Tony Durkin, once editor of Rugby League Week, media manager of the Brisbane Broncos and long-time league columnist for […]

Jeneath and Dujuan tops at JNIJC

Jeneath and Dujuan tops at JNIJC

IT’S one of the most successful junior golf events played anywhere in the world. And the Jack Newton International Junior Classic always attracts a sprinkling of class players from overseas as well as the best youngsters in Australia when it is played in the Hunter Valley each year. The ever-popular Cypress Lakes Golf and Country […]

Aussie juniors too strong for Canada and the USA

Aussie juniors too strong for Canada and the USA

THE strength of junior golf in Australia was obvious when a seven-strong team of boys and girls took the Maple Leaf Junior Tour’s National Team Challenge in Ontario, Canada, in mid-September. It was the second time the Aussies had won the highly regarded 54-hole tournament, contested by teams from Canada and the United States. They […]

CQ’s Jensen continues to  improve in junior ranks

CQ’s Jensen continues to  improve in junior ranks

KEEP a watchful eye on Central Queensland junior Isaak Jensen. After winning the Rockhampton Junior Open and Greg Norman junior qualifying event, Jensen took out the 36-hole Central Queensland Junior Open played at Emu Park Golf Club by a whopping 27 strokes. That’s right, 27 strokes! He carded rounds of 71-69 for a 140 total. […]

Kate wins bragging rights over boyfriend Harry

Kate wins bragging rights over boyfriend Harry

HARRY Takis is arguably the best male junior golfer in Queensland, and if his Bundaberg-based girlfriend Kate McFarlane isn’t the best female junior, she’s certainly one of the best two or three. The two practice together, play together, support one another and take joy in each other’s successes. But they’re still highly competitive, and like […]

Keperra Bowl: Justice again and Lewis makes pitch with putter

Keperra Bowl: Justice again and Lewis makes pitch with putter

QUEENSLAND and Australian representative Justice Bosio has virtually made the Keperra Bowl her own. The 18-year-old, who will represent Australia at the Asia-Pacific Women’s Amateur in Thailand this month, won the inaugural women’s Keperra Bowl in 2020, finished runner-up in 2021 and last month captured her second Bowl at Keperra Country Golf Club in Brisbane. […]

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