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 […]
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 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 […]
By Rob Willis EWAN Porter knows a bit about golfing talent. A junior prodigy with a +4 handicap before turning professional in his teens, Porter had an abundance of it. Twice a winner on the US Nationwide Tour, qualified for three Open Championships, long off the tee and with the fearless attitude needed to compete […]
OCTOGENERIAN ACT leftie Ray Wright, for the second time, has achieved the feat of shooting his age. The 82-year-old achieved the feat in a Wednesday members’ competition at his home club RMC, Canberra. According to Ray, it should have been the third time, but on a previous attempt he missed by a shot after three-putting […]
LIVING Choice staff members, deposit holders, clients and guests celebrated another milestone in the creation of Living Choice Parkwood at a ground-breaking ceremony held at The Club at Parkwood Village. Living Choice, which owns 10 operating retirement villages in three states, will build its first Gold Coast village overlooking the Parkwood Golf Club on the […]
By Peter Owen IONNA Muir, the outstanding 14-year-old who owns the lowest handicap of any junior player on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, has just won Headland’s women’s club championship – by a staggering 32 strokes. The workaholic young star, who says she practices for three hours a day, even when she’s playing, is a member of […]
By TONY DURKIN THE recent floods may have inundated much of The Brisbane Golf Club course, but damage – and washed-up debris – was scant when compared to recent naturaldisasters. As a result, the course was closed for only 15 days in late February-early March while the clean-up took place, and is now back in […]
By Michael Davis CORELLAS are the nemesis of many turf managers. But one Victorian superintendent has literally taken the battle to the skies in a novel approach to ridding his course of the feathered scourge. Over the past few months the greens and surrounds at Ballarat Golf Club, an hour west of Melbourne, have been […]
By Michael Davis AN extremely talented 12-year-old from country Victoria has become the youngest player to win the Ladies’ Championship at Commonwealth Golf Club. But that’s only part of Olive Spitty’s story. She stepped out in the first round of the senior pennant season and won her match 3&1 against the Heritage Golf and Country […]
WOMEN have been recognised as a powerhouse at the Novotel Vines Resort in Western Australia with the entire golf department made up of dynamic females, which is unusual in a traditionally male-dominated sport. Believed to be the only all-female golf team in Australia, the resort is also one of the few clubs with equal playing […]
THERE’S nothing like producing a winning streak in the family … especially when it comes to club championships. And if ever you doubted whether or not golf was a game for youngsters, take a drive out to Liverpool Golf Club and find out for yourself. Siblings Mirabelle and Adam Naaman created club history there when […]
THERE were many fatigued golfers around the nation following the Cancer Council’s The Longest Day golf challenge, but despite players’ tiredness they still managed to raise a glass when it was announced more than $2.5m was raised for the Cancer Council. Keperra Country Golf Club, located in the north-west of Brisbane, led the charged and […]
THE odds of scoring an albatross, they say, are upwards of six million to one. They’re probably even greater if you’re talking about one on a par-4 hole. But Sunshine Coast golfer Daniel Hall wasn’t thinking about any of that when he played the shot of his life on the 268m par-4 15th hole at […]
THE late, great teaching pro Bill McWilliam always rated Sarah Kemp as one of his most talented proteges. So, it was fitting that Kemp should be present when McWilliam’s home club, Beverley Park, in Sydney’s south, proudly hosted the annual Bill McWilliam OAM St George Boys Junior Masters. It was run in conjunction with the […]
IT’S been 50 years since the first ever golf ball was launched down the first fairway at Ocean Shores CC and over the five decades the club has managed to combine the attraction of a resort-style facility with the charm and personality of a local golf club. First-time visitors to Ocean Shores CC in the […]
By Michael Davis DEVILBEND Golf Club on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, has been through the weather mill recently. The club had just recovered from massive rainfall where two of its dams breached, only to be lashed shortly afterwards by freakish cyclonic winds of more than 120kph which lashed Victoria. “It was unreal,” general manager Tim O’Sullvan […]
By Michael Davis BERWICK-MONTUNA Golf Club and Driving Range general manager Sean Constable echoed the sentiments of many Victorian clubs lashed by wind in freak storms which hit the state. “I would hate to be in a cyclone, that’s for sure,” he said. “If that had been a Thursday afternoon, when everyone was out there, […]
GUY Wall won the rain-shortened Australian PGA Seniors Championship played at Richmond Golf Club. Wall defeated former European Tour star Peter Lonard in a playoff for the title courtesy of sinking a six-metre birdie putt on the fifth extra hole after both players fired four-under par rounds of 66. Due to heavy rain the event, […]
A CHAMPION veteran golfer in three decades came within 20cms of the ultimate prize – a hole-in-one – which would have seen him drive away in a brand-new car. Playing in the Sunshine Coast District Veterans Golf Association Championship at Peregian Golf Club, Alan Taylor, who plays out of Maroochy River Golf Club, was the […]
GOLFERS will be hard-pressed finding a golf club that charges less than $20 to play its 18-hole (par-72) golf course that has a Slope rating of 128. Well, if you venture to the mid-north coast of NSW you’ll discover Safety Beach Golf Club, 25kms north of Coffs Harbour, charges $19 for unlimited golf. “I don’t […]
WE’VE heard of the grey nomads filling our highways and byways, but there is another group of nomads – golfing nomads tripping around the place. The golfing nomads – which consist of clubs located in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Sydney North, Sydney South and Perth – are all about giving and to date they have raised […]
THE Australian Golf Foundation has received a stunning response to its 2022 AGF Junior Girls Golf Scholarship program. The AGF, in collaboration with Golf Australia, said 134 funded centres would take part in 2022, compared with 37 clubs in 2021. “We have been delighted with the response,” said Bonnie Boezeman AO, scholarship program founder and board […]
IT’S a long road to reach the standard of the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup competition play, but Queensland juniors from the Glass House Mountains Zone and the Darling Downs Golf Association experienced teams’ golf with great success late last year. Twenty-four juniors – 12 from the DDGA and 12 from the GMGZ – took […]
IF you’ve longed for a Californian/Palm Springs holiday in the sunshine, you can live that dream every day at Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters. Palm Lake Group’s première over-50s community lifestyle resort, Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters is currently under construction right alongside the company’s Greg Norman-designed Pelican Waters Golf Course. In fact, the Palm […]
CHRISTMAS arrived early for the members of Oxley Golf Club in Brisbane with the opening of the TopStroke short course in early December. The mini-golf facility is terrific and is one of the largest built in Australia – just over 3200m2 which includes 18 mini-golf holes along with a further nine-hole practice putting green that […]
WHEN it comes to tipping winners and high place-getters on the PGA Tour, Wayne Hoger (aka One-Putt) is your go-to man. Last month, Wayne, who plays his golf at Cabarlah Golf Course just outside Toowoomba on the Darling Downs, finished atop Inside Golf’s Teepster tipping competition. And for his amazing tipping prowess he won a […]
WANNEROO Golf Club in Perth’s northern suburbs has broken new ground in WA as far as upgrading course reticulation is concerned. The club’s “Irrigation Upgrade Project” has been a major undertaking in 2021 at a cost of $1.3m by contractor New Ground. Horizontal boring for the main line and vibrating ploughing for the […]
By Tony Durkin THE odds of an amateur golfer scoring a hole-in-one are 12,500 to one, and the odds of an amateur golfer scoring a hole-in-one on the same hole, in the same event, on three successive years, is ‘off the Richter Scale’ at something like 15 billion to one. But Headland Golf Club’s A […]
CARBROOK Golf Club in Brisbane’s east delivers one of the best junior programs in the state. The coaching clinics are delivered by PGA professionals Grant Harriman and Kate Dunn. Both are experienced golf coaches and their enthusiasm is being embraced by the students they coach – juniors, ladies and students with special needs. For juniors […]
FORMER US Open winner Jim Furyk has some sage advice for golfers who have reached the age of 50 – play off the forward tees. The 51-year-old, who won the 2003 US Open and the 2021 US Senior Open, says golf is “fun again” now that he’s on the US Tour Champions and playing from […]
GOLD Coasters Neil Herdegen and Todd Sleep PGA from TS Golf Academy teamed up to win their third successive blind golf tournament at Kooralbyn Valley Golf Resort. The pair edged out more than a dozen players and their caddies over two days to claim the inaugural Kooralbyn Pineapple. Jamie Hain and Big Mark Tooks finished […]
MORE than 160 players took part in the Nambour Ladies Golf Club’s annual Cancer Charity Day recently. All proceeds ($2900) went to the Nambour General Hospital’s Cancer Unit. Nambour ladies president Gail Campling said many players dressed in “cancer pink”, which added to the four-person ambrose fun day. “There were raffles, auctions, prize for best […]
GOLFER from Yeppoon Golf Club made full use of their home course advantage when member Louie Antcliff teamed up with Mt Morgan’s Lance Antcliff to win the 2021 Central Queensland Four-ball Stableford Championships. The pair returned 48 points to finish four points clear of Boyne Island’s Scott Wawrzniak and Steve Gehrman. The ladies event […]
THE Hills Golf Academy’s motto is Live, Play and Learn and many golfers joined the academy to enhance their careers. Located at Jimboomba near Brisbane, the Hills Golf Academy (HGA) for many years has produced champion golfers under the expert PGA-qualified coaching provided by their world-class staff. Having coached former world #1 Jason Day and […]
THE Australian PGA Championship is fast approaching the fairways of Royal Queensland Golf Club and now is your chance to be involved and get up close and personal with the professional athletes by volunteering your services throughout the week. There are a wide variety of volunteer roles available between Thursday and Sunday, January 13-16. Organisers […]
AVONDALE Golf Club will host the annual Avondale Amateur from January 18-21. The event will see 120 men and 48 women compete for the 2022 Avondale Medal for men and Avondale Bowl for women. Both will be played over 72 holes on the picturesque course located on the North Shore of Sydney. The Avondale Medal […]
By Michael Davis WOODEND golfers are at their wits’ end. They are frustrated by the local council’s indecision on bringing their dilapidated clubhouse up to safety standard or demolishing it altogether. ‘It’s very frustrating,” said club secretary Barney Hearnden. “This has been going on for two years. “It’s so hard to get an answer from […]
By Richard Owen MALENY Golf Club continues to evolve as an attractive destination for social golf clubs and players of all abilities seeking a unique new golfing challenge and some good old-fashioned country hospitality. Nestled within the lush green hills of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, the club’s quality, 18-hole public course provides golfers with a […]
SCORING a hole-in-one might be a rarity in most people’s golf games. And Inside Golf has long since given up recording such feats – as they seem to occur a lot more often than the odds would suggest. Yet, Ian and Dawn Campbell have beaten the ‘ace odds’ in a much different way, which is […]
