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NSW duo Halls and Lee 2025 adidas Australian Amateur champions

NSW duo Halls and Lee 2025 adidas Australian Amateur champions

Two New South Wales golfers are the new adidas Australian Amateur champions after completing dominant wins at Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne. 18 Jan 2025
O'Donovan and Lee take leads into final day at Australian Amateur

O'Donovan and Lee take leads into final day at Australian Amateur

Two golfers from the Avondale Golf Club in Sydney lead the 2025 adidas Australian Amateur Championship men’s and women’s divisions heading into the final round at Commonwealth Golf Club in Melbourne. 17 Jan 2025
WPGA tournament cancelled due to course flooding

WPGA tournament cancelled due to course flooding

Flooding has forced the cancellation of this weekend’s Drummond Golf WPGA Melbourne International official event at Latrobe Golf Club. 10 Jan 2024
Morri: Sandbelt is golf for golf’s sake

Morri: Sandbelt is golf for golf’s sake

It’s not the most prestigious, most cherished or most lucrative. But among the most important? In terms of tournaments, the Sandbelt Invitational is in the conversation. 11 Dec 2023
Morri: Proving perceptions wrong for the sake of public golf

Morri: Proving perceptions wrong for the sake of public golf

‘Golf courses are a tribute to white privilege. Turn it into something the whole community can use.’ 2 Oct 2023
Gallery: Victoria's best public access courses for 2023

Gallery: Victoria's best public access courses for 2023

Looking for the best courses to play around Australia, where getting a tee time is open for every golfer? Here, we showcase the best public access layouts in Victoria as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023. 1 Aug 2023
Baker's history in the making

Baker's history in the making

It all started with a scrapbook. In truth, the seeds were there before that when Ross Baker first realised as a trainee golf professional that his skills lay more with making clubs than swinging them. 14 Jul 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #96 – Dr. Hannah Brown

The Thing About Golf Podcast #96 – Dr. Hannah Brown

Rare is the person who swings from indifference, or even dislike of the game, to becoming a committed and passionate golfer but that has been the journey for our guest Dr Hannah Brown. 5 Jul 2023
Presidents Cup heading to Kingston Heath

Presidents Cup heading to Kingston Heath

The PGA Tour and the Presidents Cup today announced that the 2028 Presidents Cup will be contested at Kingston Heath Golf Club, one of the most iconic venues on the famed Melbourne Sandbelt. 27 Jun 2023
Holiday at home: Victoria's Secret

Holiday at home: Victoria's Secret

Stretching east from the outer suburbs of Melbourne to the New South Wales border, north to the Great Dividing Range and south to the Bass Strait coastline, Gippsland incorporates snowfields, old growth forests, rolling green pastures, beaches and lakes. 26 May 2023
The Thing About Golf Podcast #92 – Geoff Ogilvy

The Thing About Golf Podcast #92 – Geoff Ogilvy

Winner of the 2006 US Open, Geoff Ogilvy is known as one of professional golf’s best interview subjects and in this wide ranging chat with John Huggan he shows why. 10 May 2023
All you need to know about The Athena 2023

All you need to know about The Athena 2023

The third iteration of The Athena, an innovative and exciting tournament for Australia’s best young female golfers, is about to hit Melbourne this weekend. 3 Mar 2023
Opinion: It’s just the vibe of the thing

Opinion: It’s just the vibe of the thing

It is one of the quintessential moments of Australian cinema when Dennis Denuto utters the immortal line “It’s just the vibe of the thing” during the 1997 film The Castle. 22 Dec 2022
Exclusive: Hend clarifies Australian Open stance

Exclusive: Hend clarifies Australian Open stance

A professional golfer who is active on social media is both a gift and curse. 25 Nov 2022
Australian Open adds two high performing Harrisons

Australian Open adds two high performing Harrisons

Two of Australia’s most exciting young male players have taken up invitations to join the fields for the marquee events of the summer of golf. 16 Nov 2022
Ace of a day for Malaysia/Melbourne’s Wong at WAAP

Ace of a day for Malaysia/Melbourne’s Wong at WAAP

Fresh off a fifth women’s club championship win at Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne, Jeneath Wong has made a hole-in-one on day two of the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific. 4 Nov 2022
Golf industry leaves Melbourne full of inspiration

Golf industry leaves Melbourne full of inspiration

As golfers head to the course for their weekend game there will be some faces that look a little more exhausted than usual in the form of golf professionals, club managers and more this week. 14 Oct 2022
Scott adds his name to Aussie summer

Scott adds his name to Aussie summer

Adam Scott is making an emotional homecoming after three years to have another tilt at his home country’s national Open and PGA Championship. 30 Sep 2022
60 Best Aussie metro courses you can play for $50 or less

60 Best Aussie metro courses you can play for $50 or less

Inflation is on the rise and the cost-of-living is starting to hit the hip pocket nerve. But there’s no need to sacrifice your golf game. 29 Sep 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Kew GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Kew GC

Melbourne’s Kew Golf Club has been an important part of Victoria’s golfing landscape for 128 years. 28 Sep 2022
Women’s Australian Open adds another major winner

Women’s Australian Open adds another major winner

The ISPS HANDA Australian Open was already set to garner attention as the first national Open played concurrently by men and women. And the field has received a major boost on both fronts. 25 Aug 2022