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As golf’s elite stage well and truly fires up overseas, it feels only right to pause and celebrate the epic summer of golf we’ve just witnessed here at home. When the PGA of Australia released its schedule last June, it promised a blockbuster season, but not even the game’s powerbrokers could have predicted just how thrilling the summer would turn out to be. Rory McIlroy’s appearance at the Australian Open was the kind of marquee moment that stops you in your tracks. His appearance, while now in the rearview mirror with another visit to come, still feels monumental; proof of the calibre of competition our shores can attract after all. However, that was only the beginning for our local game. The extraordinary LIV Adelaide tournament delivered a spectacle like few…

Wiser people than this humble golf writer have often proclaimed all good things take time. And better things, it could be argued, take just a little bit longer. This could easily define the almost 100-year evolution of the course at Glenelg Golf Club, one of Adelaide’s most revered clubs. Glenelg recently celebrated the completion of an extensive redesign less than a year out from its centenary. I visited the course back in early 2024, more than halfway through its five-year Irrigation Replacement and Course Enhancement Masterplan rebuild, and was impressed with the direction the “new” course was taking, but most of the biggest changes were still to come. My return for the purposes of writing this review of the finished product revealed an even more visually exciting, challenging, fun and…

As he had done pretty much twice a week for the previous eight years, Vic Winter stepped up onto the tee of the par-3 sixth hole at Harrington Waters and surveyed the 141 metres between he and the pin. There was a time he’d have hit 7-iron. Today, though, he would pull out a hybrid. The man was nearly 97 years old, after all. He teed it up, stood over his canary-yellow Callaway Supersoft, and let rip. There was a pure strike, the launch was clean, and the ball tracked directly toward the flag. This was the last they saw of it, however. They knew it had landed on the green but after that, they couldn’t be sure. On the green, players, caddies and volunteers couldn’t find it. Winter’s caddie…

It takes but a few minutes inside the capaciously grand clubhouse at the Royal Sydney Golf Club to appreciate its history, dating back to the club’s origins in 1893. Modern comforts are thoughtfully blended with the rich oak honour boards, trophies and other treasured items that help to chronicle the story of a multisport and community organisation which has seen the greats tread its courts, halls and fairways. The nooks and crannies of the clubhouse and locker rooms reveal items like a set of 19th-Century scales, still in perfect working order, in a corner of the locker room near where a shoeshine attendant has plied his trade for many years. The golf course itself – a host to 16 Australian Opens and with aspirations for more – has recently undergone…

It was with mixed emotions that this sometimes jaded, sometimes cynical viewer of all things golf took in the climax to the recent Players Championship. The closing holes on the TPC Sawgrass course, laden with water hazards (never “penalty areas”), necessarily reduce the margin of error by dint of the proximity enjoyed by the liquid refreshments and the ultimate targets. So things are always likely to happen. Bad things more than good, if history is to be our guide. The half-century or so of this “almost major” is littered with late disasters, balls disappearing below the surface at regular intervals. For the shallower thinkers among us – those who desire such “excitement” – there has always been plenty to be had. This time round, eventual champion Cameron Young was rightly…

Nick Davis played 71 games for the Collingwood Magpies and 97 games for the Sydney Swans, before embarking on coaching gigs with the Swans and with NRL clubs the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and the Sydney Roosters, where he still works today teaching leaguies drop punts. In February of 2020, one month shy of his 40th birthday, Davis ran out for the Roosters in a Nines tournament in Perth. He even had a crack at punting in the NFL. Ask, however, which footy club Davis supports and the man is adamant: he supports no team. Because while there is no “i” in “team”, there are five in “individual brilliance”. And Davis has eyes only for one man. And that man is the grand slam man, the great man of Holywood, Northern Ireland, Rory…

Long before he became a fixture at Brisbane’s Victoria Park, Jamie Brew was a Chartered Accountant at Ernst and Young. The transition from “Big Four” boardroom to a coaching bay might seem like a big leap, but for Brew, a PGA professional traineeship was the logical progression. Whether you are auditing a balance sheet or assessing a student’s setup, the goal is the same: identify fundamental flaws and build a structure that can withstand pressure. Now, with nearly 30 years’ experience as a PGA member, Brew brings that “professional’s eye” to every lesson. He understands that for a high-handicapper, the game is often a frustrating mystery of misses and mishits. His approach strips away the noise, focusing instead on “simple things done often”. From his early days as a trainee…

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Adecade after winning the Players Championship, amid a stunning run of victories through 2015 and 2016 which elevated Jason Day to world number-one, he closed the 2026 tournament at TPC Sawgrass by signing off for an 80. Day, now a 38-year-old PGA Tour veteran, but still in the world’s top 50, even the top 30 for most of the previous two years, had put his tee shot in the water on the deliciously tough par-3 17th hole, made double-bogey, then parred the final hole to finish the “fifth major” (at least in the mind of some players) on four-over for the tournament and a tie for 59th. At least he made the cut, having missed the previous two, including the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The “elevated” event at Bay Hill is…