Monash Country Club on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has learned throughout its 75-year history that when a club focuses on its golf course, great things happen.
As Castle Hill Country Club marks its 75th anniversary, the milestone provides a fitting opportunity to reflect on a rich legacy built on tradition, sporting excellence and forward thinking.
Plenty of top-shelf golf can be found along the 391-kilometre stretch between the pioneering settlement of Swan Hill and the winemaking region of Rutherglen.
High visitor numbers at Sydney’s Centennial Parklands – used to justify carving up half of Moore Park Golf Course for more parks in the city’s CBD – have been “inflated” by the New South Wales Government, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
It is often said one person’s trash is another’s treasure, and so when Glenelg Golf Club had some turf leftover from recent course upgrades, the Adelaide club knew there would be somewhere nearby that could make use of it.
Woodlands Golf Club is proof that nothing in the realm of golf courses truly stands still. The time-honoured layout on the edge of the Melbourne Sandbelt is revered for its short-yet-exacting challenge and how it has continued to remain relevant even as equipment technology has accelerated unrelentingly. Yet even as those in golf applaud Woodlands’ Read more…
Buying property in the Southern Highlands may be expensive, but the golf courses, hotels and restaurants are affordable, approachable and welcoming of visitors. From one angle, the New South Wales Southern Highlands could be characterised as a weekend playground for the rich and famous. Last year, the Australian Financial Review wrote that the “Southern Highlands Read more…
Looking for top-notch golf without the hefty price tag? With the cost of living soaring, we’ve rounded up the best-value courses where you can enjoy a great game without emptying your wallet.
No other Australian Open venue – and perhaps no other Australian golf course – has shut its doors a day after it first opened. Yet that’s the bizarre tale of The Grand, tucked away in the Gold Coast hinterland. Designed by Greg Norman and former design partner Bob Harrison for a consortium of Japanese owners, Read more…
The Hunter Valley wine region of New South Wales lacks few attractions, but until 2003 it was missing a top-shelf golf course. Cypress Lakes had opened 11 years earlier but wasn’t yet in the elite class. That changed when Greg Norman and Bob Harrison weaved fairways between the grapevines at The Vintage. With both the Read more…
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