The Grand Golf Club is the best on the Gold Coast, with a bushland setting and a tumbling landform paving the way for a series of dramatic holes where timber and water combine to perplex golfers.
What lesson does a golfer learn from spending 72 hours in the nation’s capital? Three days barely scratches the surface in this underappreciated golf destination.
The term ‘hidden gem’ is over-applied in golf-course circles. However, it fits when the discussion turns to Newcastle Golf Club as even most Novocastrians would be hard-pressed to describe where it is.
Geoff Ogilvy sadly won’t be at Winged Foot this September. That doesn’t stop him from owning an ironclad memory of the New York club and the details of his greatest triumph.
Our biennial ranking of the premier courses in the country is once again a celebration of the very best in Australian golf, just as it should be. Yet inside the local golf-club scene exists an intriguing realm of mistakes and maladies that Australian course architects know only too well.
A busy club known for its slick greens and star-studded membership, Monash is a course that accentuates the best assets of a stunning bushland setting.