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In case you missed it: Moving Day at Augusta as it happened
What a day at Augusta National. Rory McIlroy goes into the final round of a major championship with the 54-hole lead for the first time since 2014. He leads DeChambeau by two heading into Championship Sunday while Canada's Corey Conners loiters at eight-under-par.
13 Apr 2025
C'mon, Aussies: the local hopes to get Australia out of bed Monday morning
It’s been 12 years since Adam Scott drained that mighty 25-footer to birdie the second play-off hole of the 2013 Masters; 12 years since we raised the rooves of living rooms and golf clubs around the land; 12 years since the greatest excuse for breakfast beers since Bob Hawke gave everyone the day off in 1983.
9 Apr 2025
Health and head space keys to McIlroy's Masters
After being cut off at the knees when Jay Monahan quite surprisingly went on television with the head of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to announce what was perceived then to be a “merger” between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, Rory McIlroy quit his role as the establishment’s pseudo-spokesman in the great pro golf imbroglio of our times. And it’s looked like the outlook has agreed with him since. The man looks like he’s free.
9 Apr 2025
Hits and memories of Rory at Augusta
He’s missed the cut (three times), he’s led after three rounds, he’s notched four top-5s and eight top-10s. There were years he was never really in it, others when he most certainly was. And there were years when you thought – surely, this time – Rory McIlroy will up and win the first major championship of the year, The Masters, at venerable Augusta National in Georgia.
8 Apr 2025
Cleary: Horror movie, right there on my TV: Greg Norman's Masters of 1996
The Masters at Augusta National is special because the course can tell stories. Glorious ones, compelling ones. There's been happiness, hubris and horror shows. And then there is Greg Norman in 1996, which nearly 30 years on remains borderline unwatchable.
7 Apr 2025
Head, heart and elbow, it's Rory's Masters
I want it to be Rory. Chances are you want it to be Rory. And the editor of this crackerjack journal would like it to be Rory, given he’s splashed the man all over the cover and throughout the pages of our glossy bit of kit which is still a bargain at $9.08 per month at all respected subscription services.
7 Apr 2025
Ripper GC leads in Miami, Leishman three back of DeChambeau
Ripper GC leads the teams event at LIV Golf Miami while Marc Leishman will head out in the penultimate group on Sunday afternoon at Trump National Doral, three shots behind the leader, Bryson DeChambeau, reports LIV Golf Media.
6 Apr 2025
Ford NSW Open heading to the Hunter Valley
The NSW Open is heading to the Hunter Valley.
3 Apr 2025
Stableford is great. But match-play against the hole? That's a top fun format
Stableford competition rules at Australian golf clubs and it's maybe fair enough; it takes less time and is lots more enjoyable than stroke-play, and nobody complains about it. But there's a format under our nose that one could describe as "match-play against an implacable, nerveless opponent" that should have more precedence, as Matt Cleary argues here.
31 Mar 2025
Solbari: Sun protective apparel
According to a study by the University of South Australia, golfers are 2.4 times more likely to suffer from skin cancer than other Australians.
19 Mar 2025
Personal Lesson: Putt with hybrid from off the green
Most people reach for a wedge around the green but from uphill lies it can be difficult to get good, crisp contact with a lofted club because the leading edge can get stuck into the hill as you're playing through the shot. And while there are several clubs you could use, around courses with raised greens - and thus a lot of short shots from uphill lies - a hybrid is a great option, according to Head Professional at Pennant Hills GC, Neil Rolfe
17 Mar 2025
19 Holes With ... Chad Townsend and Val Holmes
Former North Queensland Cowboys Val Holmes and Chad Townsend are Sydneysiders these days, turning out for the St George Illawarra Dragons and Sydney Roosters respectively. Yet their passion for golf and their Players Club social media and merchandise empire, forged in Townsville, has travelled into the deep south with them, as Matt Cleary found on a fine – if perilous to passing motorists - afternoon at Monash Country Club.
17 Mar 2025
Cleary: Postcard from California
Our man Matt Cleary visited the great state of California for a golf and cultural exchange tour for the ages, and found the fine city of San Francisco where there is craft beer and steep streets and freaky driverless taxis. And, he can assure you, there is some of the all-time top golf.
17 Mar 2025
Adam Scott fans winning as Players Championship Round One Tee-times announced
The Players Championship round one tee-times have been announced, and the news is good for Australia-based Adam Scott fans who should see plenty of their man on Friday morning's broadcast.
12 Mar 2025
Personal Lesson: Stop your chips dead at the hole
Andrew Cooper, Head Teaching Professional at Victoria Golf Club, demonstrates the keys to gaining sufficient elevation and stopping power for chips around the green – a very common skill requirement around the tight lies of the Melbourne Sandbelt, but an action which can be applied on most surfaces around the green.
12 Mar 2025
"More pointless than Pokémon": Tomorrow's Golf League critiqued, and roughly
Matt Cleary has seen enough of Tomorrow's Golf League (TGL), the hybrid, indoor-outdoor, digital-actual, teams-based golf league in Florida to know that it's not for him. Indeed he wonders if it has any point at all.
10 Mar 2025
Cleary: Postcard from Sin City
Our man Matt Cleary is on a sports odyssey of the United States, and comes to us live from Las Vegas where the stakes (and steaks) are large, the ice hockey impenetrable and the golf is flat-out extraordinary.
5 Mar 2025
Spotlight: Commonwealth Golf Club
Brian Slawnik and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design have long been unabashed fans of the Sandbelt, and of Commonwealth Golf Club in particular. When asked to redesign the course, the first thing Slawnik told members was that it’s already great and that RGD would approach the work as preservationists. What Slawnik, RGD and Commonwealth greens staff did since has reimagined and reinvigorated one of Australia’s great courses.
1 Mar 2025
Video interview: Drinks With ... Matt Millar
Veteran tour pro Matt Millar on LIV Golf, the Australian Open and playing with Rory, Ernie and cranky Colin Montgomerie.
19 Feb 2025
Cleary: A Vintage Day of Golf in The Hunter
We were three beers deep at a pub called Nineteen when the barkeep offered us three hundred bucks. It sounded generous. Too generous. As friendly as these Hunter Valley folk are, they don’t hand out greenbacks to wandering golf hounds, particularly those who may come from Sydney. There must be a catch, our table of knowledge deduced.
17 Feb 2025
Cleary: A mug punter's guide to LIV Adelaide
Welcome to LIV Adelaide and your mug punter's guide to the Big Hopes in the tournament, featuring stupid-late mail on the players whose game suits the golf course to help gain a line on the favourites, the chances, the smokies, the flat-out pretenders. And, fact is, you’d sooner pick an Irishman on a roughie to win the Melbourne Cup.
13 Feb 2025
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