IT’S a long road to reach the standard of the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup competition play, but Queensland juniors from the Glass House Mountains Zone and the Darling Downs Golf Association experienced teams’ golf with great success late last year. Twenty-four juniors – 12 from the DDGA and 12 from the GMGZ – took […]
IF you’ve longed for a Californian/Palm Springs holiday in the sunshine, you can live that dream every day at Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters. Palm Lake Group’s première over-50s community lifestyle resort, Palm Lake Resort Pelican Waters is currently under construction right alongside the company’s Greg Norman-designed Pelican Waters Golf Course. In fact, the Palm […]
CHRISTMAS arrived early for the members of Oxley Golf Club in Brisbane with the opening of the TopStroke short course in early December. The mini-golf facility is terrific and is one of the largest built in Australia – just over 3200m2 which includes 18 mini-golf holes along with a further nine-hole practice putting green that […]
WHEN it comes to tipping winners and high place-getters on the PGA Tour, Wayne Hoger (aka One-Putt) is your go-to man. Last month, Wayne, who plays his golf at Cabarlah Golf Course just outside Toowoomba on the Darling Downs, finished atop Inside Golf’s Teepster tipping competition. And for his amazing tipping prowess he won a […]
WANNEROO Golf Club in Perth’s northern suburbs has broken new ground in WA as far as upgrading course reticulation is concerned. The club’s “Irrigation Upgrade Project” has been a major undertaking in 2021 at a cost of $1.3m by contractor New Ground. Horizontal boring for the main line and vibrating ploughing for the […]
By Tony Durkin THE odds of an amateur golfer scoring a hole-in-one are 12,500 to one, and the odds of an amateur golfer scoring a hole-in-one on the same hole, in the same event, on three successive years, is ‘off the Richter Scale’ at something like 15 billion to one. But Headland Golf Club’s A […]
CARBROOK Golf Club in Brisbane’s east delivers one of the best junior programs in the state. The coaching clinics are delivered by PGA professionals Grant Harriman and Kate Dunn. Both are experienced golf coaches and their enthusiasm is being embraced by the students they coach – juniors, ladies and students with special needs. For juniors […]
FORMER US Open winner Jim Furyk has some sage advice for golfers who have reached the age of 50 – play off the forward tees. The 51-year-old, who won the 2003 US Open and the 2021 US Senior Open, says golf is “fun again” now that he’s on the US Tour Champions and playing from […]
GOLD Coasters Neil Herdegen and Todd Sleep PGA from TS Golf Academy teamed up to win their third successive blind golf tournament at Kooralbyn Valley Golf Resort. The pair edged out more than a dozen players and their caddies over two days to claim the inaugural Kooralbyn Pineapple. Jamie Hain and Big Mark Tooks finished […]
MORE than 160 players took part in the Nambour Ladies Golf Club’s annual Cancer Charity Day recently. All proceeds ($2900) went to the Nambour General Hospital’s Cancer Unit. Nambour ladies president Gail Campling said many players dressed in “cancer pink”, which added to the four-person ambrose fun day. “There were raffles, auctions, prize for best […]
GOLFER from Yeppoon Golf Club made full use of their home course advantage when member Louie Antcliff teamed up with Mt Morgan’s Lance Antcliff to win the 2021 Central Queensland Four-ball Stableford Championships. The pair returned 48 points to finish four points clear of Boyne Island’s Scott Wawrzniak and Steve Gehrman. The ladies event […]
THE Hills Golf Academy’s motto is Live, Play and Learn and many golfers joined the academy to enhance their careers. Located at Jimboomba near Brisbane, the Hills Golf Academy (HGA) for many years has produced champion golfers under the expert PGA-qualified coaching provided by their world-class staff. Having coached former world #1 Jason Day and […]
THE Australian PGA Championship is fast approaching the fairways of Royal Queensland Golf Club and now is your chance to be involved and get up close and personal with the professional athletes by volunteering your services throughout the week. There are a wide variety of volunteer roles available between Thursday and Sunday, January 13-16. Organisers […]
AVONDALE Golf Club will host the annual Avondale Amateur from January 18-21. The event will see 120 men and 48 women compete for the 2022 Avondale Medal for men and Avondale Bowl for women. Both will be played over 72 holes on the picturesque course located on the North Shore of Sydney. The Avondale Medal […]
By Michael Davis WOODEND golfers are at their wits’ end. They are frustrated by the local council’s indecision on bringing their dilapidated clubhouse up to safety standard or demolishing it altogether. ‘It’s very frustrating,” said club secretary Barney Hearnden. “This has been going on for two years. “It’s so hard to get an answer from […]
By Richard Owen MALENY Golf Club continues to evolve as an attractive destination for social golf clubs and players of all abilities seeking a unique new golfing challenge and some good old-fashioned country hospitality. Nestled within the lush green hills of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, the club’s quality, 18-hole public course provides golfers with a […]
SCORING a hole-in-one might be a rarity in most people’s golf games. And Inside Golf has long since given up recording such feats – as they seem to occur a lot more often than the odds would suggest. Yet, Ian and Dawn Campbell have beaten the ‘ace odds’ in a much different way, which is […]
By Michael Davis A STAGGERING nine million Australians are interested in swinging a golf club, a ground breaking survey has found. Yet only five per cent of them are members anywhere. The cutting edge research will define Australian golf’s new direction as it sets its sights on a solid path for post-pandemic growth. Officially launched by the Australian Golf Industry […]
MOUNT Morgan Golf Club’s #2 team has taken out this year’s historic Robinson Cup teams’ event played at Capella Golf Club in Central Queensland. More than 170 players teed off in the event where the best three nett scores from each four-person team counted. The winning team from Mt Morgan returned a 228 total courtesy […]
By Michael Davis KINGSTON Heath is joining the groundswell of club thinking around the world bringing superb par-three experiences to time-poor golfers. Latrobe and Lonsdale Links are two Victorian clubs already ahead of the game having completed par-three layouts on their sites. The shorter courses are proving a boon for the clubs who already have […]
AMONG the young kids who regularly contest the three-hole competitions in the Glasshouse Mountains Zone Futures Tour, Billy Zerbst stands out. He’s always the smallest. That’s hardly surprising. He’s also the youngest – a four-year-old taking on five- and six-year-olds in a competition aimed at encouraging youngsters to learn and play the game of golf. […]
MOST golfers who take up the game of golf will eventually start dreaming about getting a hole-in-one. For many golfers it’s the ultimate prize. Well, the dream became reality for one young Collangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club (CTHGC) junior member when he aced the seventh hole on the River Course. Eight-year-old Ollie Moore stunned golfers […]
FOUR months ago, Cassie Porter struggled to bend down to tie her laces without pain due to a serious back stress fracture. But using her mental strength, Porter, 19, mustered enough strength to lift the women’s Keperra Bowl after coming home with a wet sail over the final four holes with an eagle-birdie-birdie-par finish. The […]
MALENY Golf Club has a new “infinity edge” practice green and a permanent home for its fleet of 24 golf carts following the recent completion of a purpose-built storage shed as part of a key infrastructure project. Some spare space in the shed, which can hold up to 32 carts, is being leased to members […]
ONE club boasts an incredible 159 per cent jump in membership. And that’s just a part of a golf membership ‘boom’ that has come about due to the Covid-19 pandemic in New South Wales. The golfing landscape has changed dramatically in the 18 months as golf has become the real ‘go-to’ sport with so many […]
CORAL Cove Golf Club surprised even itself when it held its third annual charity golf day to raise much-needed funds for the Challenge Foundation. The #DoingitforJarrod fundraising event is held in memory of former PGA professional Jarrod Lyle at courses across Australia to raise funds for families affected by cancer. Anyway, more than 120 players […]
DESPITE the wet and wild weather conditions, more than 90 women travelled from Royal Perth, Lakelands and Floreat in the north, High Wycombe in the east and Collie in the south to play in Pinjarra Golf Club’s annual Ladies Charity Golf Day. More than $2,600 was raised from competition entry fees, raffles and trade table […]
A LARGE contingent of interstate police golfers managed to escape the winter cold and pending lockdowns in late July to take part in the Australian Police Golf Championships (APGC) in winter-warm Darwin. It was the first APGC held in Darwin for 23 years. Originally planned to be played in South Australia, the event was moved […]
By Kim Burke LOCKDOWN golf is different in every club and at the picturesque Shelly Beach GC on the NSW Central Coast it has necessitated a nine-hole competition and social play only to cater for its 1200-plus membership. The women’s committee, through their 250-plus closed members Facebook group, decided to add a bit of fun […]
IN these harsh Covid-19 times across Australia, golf in all its forms – private and social club memberships, public course participation and those people who would normally be travelling throughout the country or overseas, are turning to golf. This is particularly so in Western Australia which, according to Golf WA CEO Gary Thomas. The State […]
MANY leading golf tournaments (professional and amateur) are being cancelled or pushed back, but not the Keperra Bowl which has been played annually at Keperra Country Golf Club in Brisbane for the past 16 years. The prestigious Keperra Bowl, a 72-hole Golf Australia Order of Merit and R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking Event, is scheduled […]
THE 2021 Outback Queensland Masters only recently completed its 1900km journey across Outback Queensland, but players are already planning to take part in the 2022 tournament. Next year’s event will again take players across outback Queensland … all the way to Birdsville on the edge of the Simpson Desert where a $1 million hole-in-one prize […]
WHAT is a course superintendent’s plan of action when he has a wish list for new equipment, including a much-needed turf cutter? Well, in the case of Muree Golf Club’s super Robert Baker you casually mention it to a club member whose wife just happens to be a staff member and keen golfer. That is […]
Historic near unanimous vote by the members of Oxley Golf Club in Brisbane has paved the way for a significant development project at the club. Following nine months of planning and investigation, the club recently started the construction of a unique mini-golf facility, which will be positioned on what was the par-3 ninth hole. The […]
Boonah Golf Club members recently elected its first female president in the club’s 93-year history. Ms Bernice Dover, 66, was elected unopposed, together with a new management committee, at a special general meeting. Ms Dover, a former human resources professional with some 30 years experience nationally and internationally, said she wanted to “build the club’s […]
Certainly the pandemic and travel restrictions has changed golf and how it is played all around the world. Even organisers of the National Hickory Championships, which have been played in the US for 23 years, were forced to make changes to allow “foreigners” a chance to compete. For those that could not play at the […]
By Michael Davis It’s big news when anyone has a hole-in-one at your club. But at Cranbourne, in Melbourne’s south-east, they’re claiming what must be some sort of a record after three members scored aces in eight days – two of them in three days. Steven Leigh and Mark Hammerschlag landed their gems on the […]
By Michael Davis No matter what level we play the great game of golf, everyone is aware that in Covid times it is increasingly difficult to obtain a tee time. Now the boom in Australian golf, which has been quite anecdotally, has been confirmed by the release of official AusPlay statistics. They show that golf […]
An exciting milestone in the creation of Living Choice Parkwood, a 200-apartment retirement community to be built at Parkwood Golf Course, was celebrated on 22nd May when the village’s first display apartment was unveiled to the public. Living Choice Parkwood, described as ‘Golf resort living for the un-retiring’, is Living Choice’s 11th retirement village and […]
Inverell Golf Club’s John Coote recently racked up his 18th club championship title, but what’s extraordinary is he has won the title in six successive decades. The 68-year-old won his first championship at the northern New South Wales club in 1977, aged 25, and continued his good form winning the championship in the ’80s, ’90s, […]
