The latest Australian golf news
With only a few short months remaining until the opening of Victoria’s most talked about new course development, The Eastern Golf Club in the Yarra Valley, all eyes are firmly focussed on watching the spectacular facility take shape. One pair of eyes that are giving the layout an extremely detailed and meticulous look are none other […]
NO golfer, irrespective of his or her handicap, walks off a green after a three putt feeling good about themselves. And while The Brisbane Golf Club cannot guarantee a golfer’s most detested deficiency never occurring on their greens, club captain Terry Campbell is adamant the probability has greatly decreased now the course has Ultra Dwarf […]
A SYDNEY golf club that’s name starts with Royal is about to close its doors for the last time. Don’t panic, it’s not that one. Rather, the final curtain will come down on the Royal Australian Engineers Golf Club, a military-run operation, after the final putt drops into the cup on May 2. Yes, the […]
Woodlands, Patterson River and Rossdale are still open to the possibility of merging despite talks between the three clubs falling through late last year. The respective boards were in discussions over a plan to turn nine holes at Rossdale into residential land and form a 45-hole ‘superclub’ to ensure each club’s long-term financial viability. “Something […]
IT takes a lot to stir the emotions of Rockhampton Golf Club president Ron Murphy, but he was close to tears when he sighted the damage Tropical Cyclone Marcia had left behind. “When I saw the mess around the golf course I could have cried,” said Murphy, who is also president of Golf Central Queensland. […]
Keysborough Golf Club in Melbourne’s southeast is the latest Victorian golf club to ask for member approval to sell land to ensure its long-term financial future. The club is seeking to have its existing land approved for residential development and use the value created to construct a new course on nearby “green wedge”, less valuable […]
Proving that innovative print media can thrive in the digital age, Australia’s Most Read Golf publication, Inside Golf, has published the largest issue in the publication’s history. With its March 2015 issue, Inside Golf’s multitude of passionate readers will enjoy an expanded 128-page offering which, in addition to an 88-page golf magazine, includes two highly-popular […]
RULE number one for any golf club under financial pressure: do not cancel your insurance policy. Just ask the officials at Wallangarra Golf Club located on the Queensland/New South Wales border near Stanthorpe in the heart of the Granite Belt. Two weeks after cancelling its fire and theft insurance policy, fire destroyed the club’s machinery […]
The 2015 Holden Scramble season is set for another jam-packed scheduled of events right across the country. Entering its 24th year, the Holden Scramble continues to cement itself as Australia’s largest and most successful pro-amateur team’s event; making it one of the most recognised brands in Australian sport and Holden’s longest-running sponsorship outside of motorsport. […]
By the time this story goes to print the 2015 ALPG season will be well underway and we will have seen the re-emergence of one of the superstars of the women’s game in Australia, Rachel Hetherington. Rachel stepped away from playing in 2010 and since retiring she has been extremely busy, not only did she […]
Well, what a summer of golf this has been. Everyone will look back and see different highlights. Maybe it was the outstanding success of both the ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open and the men’s Emirates Australian Open and their world-class champions? What Jordan Spieth did on the last day at The Australian in November will […]
MEMBERS of The Eastern Golf club in Melbourne were recently treated to a sneak-peek of their new Greg Norman-designed golf course, currently under construction in the Yarra Valley. As part of the club’s ongoing going commitment to communication and development transparency to members, the club hosted an Open Day on site in Yering in December. […]
The effervescent Joanna Klatten has confirmed she will be back to defend her title at the 2015 Bing Lee Fujitsu General Women’s NSW Open, March 6-8 at the “home” of the NSW Open, Oatlands Golf Club in Sydney. In 2014 the Frenchwoman fired a dazzling course record nine-under-par 63 closing round to win the NSW […]
New Zealander Ryan Fox has won the Coca-Cola Queensland PGA Championship at the City Golf Club in Toowoomba. With a tournament total of 17-under 263, Fox triumphed in dramatic circumstances by one shot from Matthew Millar (ACT) and Cameron Smith (QLD). “I am pretty ecstatic right now to be honest,” said Fox. “I was around […]
Australia’s Andrew Dodt staged a dramatic fight back with a closing five-under-par 67 to capture the inaugural True Thailand Classic presented by Black Mountain. Dodt’s winning total of 16-under-par 272 at the Black Mountain Golf Club left him speechless as his second victory on the region’s premier Tour finally ended a five-year title drought. Thailand’s […]
Four Cromer Golf Club members have proven that four aces indeed beats a full house (of golfers). On Wednesday 4th February 2015, the quartet were lucky enough to all have holes-in-one in the same competition, all on separate Par-3’s. Cromer Member Jack Ireland holed out on the 155m uphill 2nd, Russell Lumb equalled the feat […]
In what is regularly one of the most exciting golf events on Australia’s summer calendar, this year’s Oates Victorian Open did not disappoint, with a fairytale finish for the combined men’s and women’s event. In front of huge galleries at the magnificent Thirteenth Beach Golf Links, Victorian Richard Green capped off a week to remember […]
Jason Day has become Australia’s first PGA TOUR champion for 2015, winning an intense four-person playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open, played at Torrey Pines in San Diego, California. Finishing regulation play on 9-under the card, Day was tied for the lead with Americans J.B Holmes, Harris English and Scott Stallings. The quartet headed to […]
Australian Professional, Mathew Goggin, has won the Panama Claro Championship in Panama City and the first event on the 2015 Web.com Tour schedule. This is Goggin’s first victory since 2011. Born in Hobart Tasmania the 40-year old, who now resides in Charlotte North Carolina, finished at 11-under 269. “It just reminds you that you can still […]
It is with a heavy heart that the PGA of Australia advises the passing of one of Australia’s golfing greats, Kel Nagle. Nagle passed away peacefully at 1.30 this morning at Mona Vale hospital. He was 94. Born in 1920 in New South Wales, Nagle has been one of the PGA’s most revered Members for the […]
The emergence of the first 72-hole private membership Golf Club in Australia has become a reality when a proposed merger between the prestigious National Golf Club and the Long Island Country Club was recently supported by members by both clubs. Of the total number of National members who voted on the proposed merger, 80.93% voted […]
RIVERSIDE Oaks, the massive resort and residential development an hour northwest of Sydney’s CBD, which has been a national golf industry pacesetter since it teed off 27 years ago, has scored another historic first. With the opening in October of its 6300m Bungool layout, which meanders along the dramatically scenic Hawkesbury River’s banks at Cattai, […]
The PGA of Australia CEO Brian Thorburn, alongside the Minister for Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games, Jann Stuckey, announced during presentations at the 2014 Australian PGA Championship that the event is set to stay in Queensland, and on the Gold Coast, for at least a further three years. Speaking from the […]
Marcus Fraser narrowly missed out on claiming his first win since 2010 at the 2014 Thailand Golf Championship, but his disappointment was largely offset by the knowledge that he had qualified for The Open at St Andrews next year. The Australian, who finished in a tie for second alongside Martin Kaymer, a shot behind winner […]
Greg Chalmers has won the Australian PGA Championship after a seven-hole playoff at RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. Starting the day seven shots off the lead, Chalmers fired a final round 8-under 64 to end regulation play tied for the lead with Adam Scott and Wade Ormsby on 11-under 277. “It was […]
New South Welshman Lincoln Tighe has won the Nanshan NSW PGA Championship at Riverside Oaks Golf Resort. Starting the day five shots off the lead, Tighe fired an impressive 7-under 64 for a tournament total of 19-under 265 to claim his first title on the PGA Tour of Australasia. Tighe hovered around the lead all […]
It’s not often when phoning a golf club that the recorded voice on the other end of the line goes beyond asking if you’d like to speak with the pro shop and administration—and inquires as to whether you would like to know the “movie theatre session times.” But that’s exactly what happens when you call […]
Golf Australia and Qantas Loyalty have today teamed up to launch a new participation initiative they hope will bring more people to the game and, in time, become members of traditional golf club The Qantas Golf Club is a new online club designed to provide Qantas Frequent Flyers with the ability to earn Qantas […]
Jordan Spieth wowed his Australian audience with a command performance in Sydney, then immediately promised to defend his Emirates Australian Open title in 2015. Spieth, the 21-year-old Texan already close to the top 10 players in the world, smashed the course record at The Australian with a closing 63, finishing six shots ahead of his […]
Home favourites Rod Pampling, Brett Rumford and Greg Chalmers have qualified for The Open, courtesy of their final rounds of the Emirates Australian Open. Pampling finished on a seven-under-par total of 277 in second place, six shots behind the winner America’s Jordan Spieth, to qualify for the 144th Open at St Andrews in July. He […]
South Australian Nick Cullen has won the 2014 BetEasy Masters at Metropolitan Golf Club. Starting the day two shots off the lead, Cullen fired an impressive 3-under 69 for a tournament total of 9-under 279. Cullen won the title by just one shot from defending champion Adam Scott, New South Welshman James Nitties and Victorian […]
Next week at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney, Golf Australia will launch a first in Aussie golf. Australian Open Radio will bring golf fans more than 20 hours of live, exclusive coverage as the world’s best players battle it out for our national championship. Not only will AO Radio be available free through a […]
It has been the talk of Sydney since they announced their Emirates Australian Open rematch. But ever since world No.2 Adam Scott raised the prospect of a direct shootout with world No.1 Rory McIlroy in China recently, the golfing world has been waiting to learn whether or not last year’s combatants would be paired in […]
As the Australian golf club industry in general tries to slow the overall decline in membership numbers, numerous progressive clubs are developing local reciprocal agreements to boost their offering to members and entice new members. More clubs are either executing mergers or considering joining forces with other clubs to sure up their future but reciprocal […]
A proposal to merge Long Island Country Club Limited (Long Island) into The National Golf Club Incorporated (The National) will create Australia’s first ever 72 hole private golf facility and provide members with access to four championship golf courses for the price of one annual subscription. After the merger, The National will have four courses […]
For the second time in an increasingly prolific career, Rory McIlroy has won The Race to Dubai after a superb season in which he took his haul of Major titles to four, and won a World Golf Championship and the BMW PGA Championship for the first time. With 2,726,514 points now separating McIlroy and Henrik […]
The world’s best players will return to the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in February when the 2015 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open is held on the club’s famous Composite Course. In a world-class field featuring several of the top-10, Australian legend Karrie Webb – who won a record fifth national crown this year – will […]
Victorian Anthony Brown has won the 2014 Mazda NSW Open after a two-hole playoff at Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club. Starting the day three shots off the lead, Brown went quietly about his business to shoot 3-under 69 and tie New Zealand’s Josh Geary at 14-under 274 at the end of regulation play. After 15 holes […]
The U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group (The Golf Group) recently announced the successful raids of two China-based counterfeiting targets carried out over the past few months. The operations, which were executed by Chinese law enforcement with the assistance of the Golf Group, resulted in the seizure of almost 62,000 counterfeit golf products. Additionally, The Golf Group […]
Marc Leishman and Brendan Jones will play the Australian PGA Championship at RACV Royal Pines Resort from 11-14 December 2014. In his only appearance of the Aussie summer of golf, Leishman is looking forward to getting back to the Gold Coast for the Australian PGA Championship. “I always love playing at home in Australia and […]
