The latest Australian golf news
FOR more than three decades Gary Barter has plied his trade as a teaching professional at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney and was recently recognised for his passion and dedication to the game by being named NSW PGA High Performance Coach for 2021. The long-time coach of multiple US PGA Tour winner and two-time […]
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 […]
AUSSIE Cameron Smith is dominating the headlines after starting the year on a high by winning the Sentry Tournament of Champions, but another Cameron (Cameron Davis) has set his sights on winning again on the PGA Tour. Davis, who made it into the Sentry Tournament of Champions field courtesy of winning the PGA Tour’s Rocket […]
AUSTRALIAN golf fans will have two new and one well-known face to cheer for on the world’s biggest women’s professional tour, the 2022 LPGA Tour. St Michael’s golfer Stephanie Kyriacou secured her 2022 LPGA Tour card alongside fellow Aussies Karis Davidson and tried-and-tested professional Sarah Jane Smith. Kyriacou played 21 tournaments in 13 different countries […]
IT’S regarded as one of Sydney’s truest championship courses. And Concord Golf Club has vowed to be at its best when some of the best golfers in the country venture there next month for the $400,000 Golf Challenge NSW Open Championship. Tournament dates have been set for March 17 to 20 for an event with […]
NO,” was Cameron Smith’s blunt answer to a journalist who asked the winner of the recent Sentry Tournament of Champions if he would shave off his mullet. “Are you going to keep that thing forever,” was the journo’s follow up question. Smith’s reply: “I don’t think forever, but for the time being it’s hanging in.” […]
Ocean Dunes golf course on King Island has been sold to a Melbourne based consortium. Chairman of the Ocean Dunes Board, Andrew Mitchell confirmed that the new consortium intends to develop a new clubhouse and much needed accommodation on the course. This is not only great news for Ocean Dunes but for King Island as […]
IT was a tough start to the year for Australian professionals and golf fans with the passing of Bob Shearer. Shearer, a PGA of Australia life member, suffered a heart attack and passed away on January 9, aged 73. He ranks among the finest golfers Victoria has produced and is only one of a few […]
PLEASE tick the appropriate box below to rate 2021 as a golf year to remember. The choices are: excellent, riveting, okay, interesting, ho hum and what happened for me? Several factors should be taken into consideration before ticking begins. Ignore, if you will, all the negative things like Covid-19 and forced lockdowns to “keep us […]
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 […]
FORMER world number one Greg Norman will lead a newly-formed company, backed by Saudi Arabian money, which wants to revolutionise professional golf globally. Norman was recently named CEO of LIV Golf Investments, which is committed to outlaying more than $270m to 10 new marquee events to be staged annually on the Asian Tour over the […]
By Michael Davis A COMPACT two-day event at the superbly-revamped Sandringham public course is returning to the WPGA Tour of Australasia next month. Known as The Athena – so called after the Greek goddess of war strategy and wisdom – the two-day event will feature 10 emerging Australian and New Zealand golfers like Stephanie Kyriacou, […]
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 JUST when we thought big tournament golf was done and dusted in Australia, two of Melbourne’s biggest golf names have put their heads together and come up with an innovative event which may help fill the void a little. The 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy and former European Tour player Mike […]
RECENTLY I was super excited to be involved in a media day held at Royal Queensland Golf Club to announce the launch of the Australian WPGA Championship. It will be played in January and will be played concurrently with the Australian PGA Championship – one of Australian golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournaments. This announcement […]
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 […]
By Michael Davis A STAGGERING nine million Australians are interested in swinging a golf club, a ground breaking survey has found. Yet only five per cent of them are members anywhere. The cutting edge research will define Australian golf’s new direction as it sets its sights on a solid path for post-pandemic growth. Officially launched by the Australian Golf Industry […]
MOUNT Morgan Golf Club’s #2 team has taken out this year’s historic Robinson Cup teams’ event played at Capella Golf Club in Central Queensland. More than 170 players teed off in the event where the best three nett scores from each four-person team counted. The winning team from Mt Morgan returned a 228 total courtesy […]
By Michael Davis KINGSTON Heath is joining the groundswell of club thinking around the world bringing superb par-three experiences to time-poor golfers. Latrobe and Lonsdale Links are two Victorian clubs already ahead of the game having completed par-three layouts on their sites. The shorter courses are proving a boon for the clubs who already have […]
