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Feature story: Welcome home to St Andrews
The Women’s Open returns to the Old Course for 2024. We are talking the home of golf. Where the game began. Simple as. The best stage in the world for the best players in the world. It is how it’s meant to be.
21 Aug 2024
Travel: Highlands Swing
Every now and then a newspaper will trot out an article quoting academics and professionals advocating for the four-day working week.
19 Aug 2024
CLEARY: A round of golf destroyed by Gozer the Gozerian
If golf can produce one thing it’s memes. And there’s a pretty cool one going around about the contrasting emotions of a round of golf before one tees off and after one putts in.
19 Aug 2024
CLEARY: How Caddyshack can save a golfer's mind
It was following another Saturday stableford competition, another boulevard of broken dreams, with sublime mixed with ridiculous, that I realised I needed the tough love and wisdom of the greatest film of all time.
12 Aug 2024
CLEARY: Is this the worst thing you can do on a golf course?
Is this the greatest crime on a golf course? No. You could cheat in the Wednesday stableford competition. You could tear up the greens on a Suzuki GSX-R600. You could wear denim jeans. But! It is one of the worst things. It is in my top-five Pet Hates with a bullet. And it needn't bloody well be.
1 Aug 2024
Video Lesson: Hit a stinger into the wind
Head Teaching Professional at Long Reef Golf Club in Sydney, Michael Infanti, offers up a quick tip on how to successfully penetrate a prevailing breeze.
30 Jul 2024
CLEARY: Zed's dead but LIV lives, one year on from predicted doom
Unlike Zed who is dead, LIV Golf is still kicking and Greg Norman remains chief executive despite a proposal that he be "terminated”.
27 Jul 2024
CLEARY: Tiger Woods isn't done and Monty can eat crow
For reasons known only to the high priests of nomenclature, the collective noun for a group of mongoose is a 'band'. And that's what was stampeding over Tiger Woods' grave as he posted 79-77 to miss the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Troon.
21 Jul 2024
Our Experts Tip the Open Championship
Warning bookmakers, punters and the world's greatest golfers: Golf Australia magazine's crack stable of top experts - top stable of crack experts? Now, now, none of your cheek - have submitted their tips for this 152nd Open Championship at Royal Troon. And, let's just say, Rory McIlroy may thank us not at all.
17 Jul 2024
Let them cook: the six Aussie chances at Troon
Australians have won more Open Championships than any other major title. Ten times our nation has supped from the Auld Claret Jug. And, starting Thursday, in the 152nd iteration of the oldest golf tournament in the world, there are another six men with a red hot shot.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Make putts with money
Keep your head down, the putter head square, and putt for dough with dough using these two simple drills performed by Cypress Lakes' Head Golf Professional and PGA of Australia member, Scott Cubis.
17 Jul 2024
Video Lesson: Chipping to a tee, with a tee
Many golfers, as soon as they’re over the ball and about to chip, have it in their heads to “lift” the golf ball into the air.
17 Jul 2024
Cleary: A golf course so good you'll write love letters about it
And so to New South Wales GC, a golf course so good you could write a story of every hole.
15 Jul 2024
Cleary: John Deere in the headlights a 28-under snooze-fest
Following the Great Rebellion of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket series, in which Dennis Lillee, Viv Richards and the Chappell brothers wore coloured clothing and played “Super Tests” under floodlights with a, gasp, white ball, Australian cricket reunited for season 1979/80.
8 Jul 2024
Travel Feature: Capital Country
The best thing about Canberra is the air. Now, now – none of your cheek. Not the stuff out of the buffoons we send to the Capital to look after our interests, the gibbering nincompoops whose bluster could power so many of Canberra’s much-photographed hot-air balloons.
2 Jul 2024
Cleary: If Trump and Biden are single-figure markers, I am the ghost of Sam Snead
And I am not the ghost of Sam Snead. At least far as I know.
1 Jul 2024
Cleary: if bunkers are hazards, why do we rake them?
The venerable game of golf, according to the noble Scottish weirdos and beardies and old-money dandies who first decided the sandy dunes “linking” the arable land and the sea could be used to to whack feather-filled leather balls about the place and thus fill in the new thing called "leisure time", was never meant to be fair.
24 Jun 2024
CLEARY: PINEHURST NO.2 THE GREAT STAR OF U.S OPEN
The U.S Open had a brilliant and compelling finish as the game's superstars rose and fell until there could be only one. And it was Pinehurst No.2 that made it happen.
17 Jun 2024
Where dreams are made... and broken
It’s long been decreed by those dungeon masters of the United States Golf Association that U.S Open venues must have super-thin fairways and thick, chunky, chop-it-sideways rough. Thus, the first two times Pinehurst No.2 hosted the national championship (1999 and 2005), it was a beast more penal than Pentridge. Yet the USGA appears to have mellowed, and bucked the trend of punishment for the sake of it. And it’s been Pinehurst at the vanguard. And this year's U.S Open should be entertaining indeed.
12 Jun 2024
Our Experts' Tips for the U.S Open
Replete with Sandbelt references, the Aussie chances and the ritual writing-off of Tiger, Rory and Robert Rock, our panel of experts tip their certainties, their roughies and their day-dream believers ahead of the 124th U.S Open at Pinehurst No.2.
12 Jun 2024
Cleary: Golf must adapt to climate change because we can't trust the pols
And so it was to golf on Saturday at my home track, except there was no golf because it rained as if Moses had thrown open the Tasman Sea. Fairly hosed down, friend. You know those colours on the radar that illustrate rain density? There was a melange of orange, purple and puce. There was Sydney Sixers magenta. There was the rich black of Satan.
3 Jun 2024
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