A round-table discussion of Australian course architects reveals the trends, tales and talking points of golf course architecture in this country and abroad.
The sun was out, the wind was down and the field was away.
Yet the 2002 Australian Open stopped not long after play started. Two decades on, we revisit the day Australian golf made world headlines for all the wrong reasons.
With the host course’s architect as his caddie, Elvis Smylie will play this week’s Australian PGA Championship with an advantage no other player can claim.
Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath, Peninsula Kingswood and Yarra Yarra will host one round each in a 72-hole event with 60-strong mixture of male and female pros and amateurs.
If you could create the ultimate fantasy course for this year’s Presidents Cup by cherry picking the very best the state of Victoria has to offer, how would it look? We laid down the challenge to some of Australia’s elite players and course designers. Naturally, they didn’t disappoint.