If any golfer requires a reminder of the need to always, always, always follow one of the golden rules of the competitive game – read every word of the local rules before teeing off – we offer the tale of Anthony Quayle at this past week’s Vic PGA Championship.
After a break-out season last year, winning three times and claiming the Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit, his latest win further outlines Micheluzzi as one of the most exciting emerging Australian talents.
Pack your bags – and clubs – for that mid-year vacation or long weekend. A number of forward-thinking golf clubs have initiated improvements to become even better play-and-stay destinations.
It took five birdies across five drama-fuelled playoff holes on the par-5 18th hole at Moonah Links’ Open Course for Andrew Martin to eventually become a Victorian PGA Championship winner for the first time.
Victoria returns to the local tournament scene with gusto in the coming weeks. Yet for everyday golfers, the state’s allure has never waned and rarely has it been more appealing.
With many capital-city courses overflowing with bookings or torrential rain, there’s never been a better time to head off the beaten track in search of that memorable round.
Winner of the 2017 Morobe Open in Papua New Guinea, Wood posted 20-under and then had to watch and wait as the final group all chased the eagle that would have forced a playoff.
A three-time winner on the Asian Tour – two of which came in consecutive weeks in 2004 – Pilkadaris has regularly featured on Australasian leaderboards without ever ending the week as the one on top.
A new-look course with Tom Doak’s fingerprints all over it is just one of the many reasons you need to tick the world-class Mornington Peninsula off your travel list.
A golf course devised with a ‘Home of Australian Golf’ and the Australian Open in mind, Peter Thomson’s Open course at Moonah Links is a supremely difficult test of execution.