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LOCATED just a short 10-minute drive from Noosa on the way to the iconic Eumundi Markets, Noosa Hills Par 3 and Mini Golf is the ultimate destination for a relaxed, welcoming golfing experience. Whether a seasoned golfer, a beginner, or simply seeking a family-friendly activity, Noosa Hills offers something for everyone. Known as the friendliest […]
LET us introduce you to Esprit de Vie a fresh take on the art of ageing that trades bingo halls for wine tastings, and lonely evenings for lively community vibes.. Nestled in the heart of Mermaid Waters, with a convenient walkway to the Q-Centre for shopping and essentials, this isn’t just later living – it’s […]
IT GLORIES in the title of a world championship. And, though this year’s winner may not be universally recognised as the world’s best, as the winner would if it were, say, boxing or swimming, this year’s HSBC Women’s World Championship is certain to produce a champion of rare quality. The event, of which Inside Golf […]
A popular addition to the field at the recent Australian PGA Championship, Jason Day performed strongly, finished in the top 10 and was well received by the crowds. Following his first tournament appearance on home soil after an absence of seven years, Day spoke to Inside Golf’s US correspondent Garrett Johnston upon his return to […]
Brendan Jones is headed for the PGA TOUR Champions in 2025 after successfully negotiating the qualifying school. Brendan Jones will become the 10th fully exempt Australian on the PGA TOUR Champions when he turns 50 in March after winning one of five tour cards at the recent qualifying school. After a sluggish front nine on […]
IN addition to Hannah Green’s second Greg Norman Medal, as announced in the December issue of Inside Golf, another nine high achievers were singled out and acknowledged at the PGA Awards Gala Dinner, held during the week of the recent Australian PGA Championship. More than 350 guests, including Cam Smith, Jason Day, Min Woo Lee […]
IT’S the last week of November, and Mark Gibson (aka Gibbo) is celebrating a significant milestone – 30 years as a full-time teaching professional at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast. Mind you, the 66-year-old, who runs Exceptional Golf at Royal Pines, was well-credentialled long before arriving there after having spent time working as […]
TEVEN Valley Golf Course nestled in the green rolling hills of the Ballina hinterland of northern NSW might be a small nine-hole facility but that doesn’t stop it dreaming big ideas … and scoring the occasional win. Take the month of August, for example. Golf NSW called upon Teven Valley GC to host the $50,000 […]
EARLIER this year GreenSpace Management became the first “off course” provider globally to become a signatory to the R&A Women in Golf Charter, and as part of this commitment, GreenSpace has been flying along with numerous amazing Women focused initiatives at their golf and mini golf courses nationally. The latest initiative, the ‘Women’s Golf Morning […]
AHEAD of celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, Burleigh Golf Club is continuing with its beautification and course upgrade program. Last year the popular Gold Coast club engaged renowned golf course architect Graham Marsh to redesign the par-three 17th hole and the third green. Last month the new-look lakeside 17th hole opened for play with […]
A typical Saturday morning at Kingaroy Golf Club with a large number of juniors attending clinics. CHRIS Sarquis has always been a man in a hurry. At the age of 18, when most of his peers were playing amateur tournaments or seeking a job as a trainee in a golf shop, he turned professional and […]
AS one of the country’s oldest golf clubs, it seemed appropriate that hickory golf clubs should be called into play when Concord Golf Club last month commemorated its 125th anniversary. As part of the club’s celebrations, a hickory event was arranged with 50 members keen to experience playing with clubs that would have been used […]
IT is one of the oldest golf clubs in New South Wales. So, Bowral Golf Club in the Southern Highlands seemed the perfect venue for a hickory golf club challenge, hosted by the Australian Golf Historical Society. This club was established in 1901 and happily accommodated players with clubs that were more than 100 years […]
ELVIS Smylie made such an impression when he burst into big-time Australian golf three years ago that it seemed inevitable the Queenslander would win early and often – not just in this country, but throughout the world. Smylie, the 19-year-old with the good looks and the silky smooth left-hand swing, was still an amateur when […]
HE’S LIVED in Australia since he was 11 and speaks with such a broad Aussie accent that you’d wager he’d never left these shores, but Jack Buchanan was born in Scotland and remains proud of his Scottish heritage. It was the reason he returned to his homeland this year to compete in four mid-summer tournaments […]
Now playing on the PGA Tour Champions, Richard Green enjoyed a breakout year in the US, his second placing in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, his fifth runner’s up finish of 2024 seeing the Victorian wind up third on the season-long points list behind just Steve Alker and Ernie Els. Green collected US$3,137,821 in prizemoney […]
Paul Skinner is having a positive impact on those who never thought they would have the opportunity to play and enjoy the game of golf. Golf has been Paul Skinner’s life from the time he was 12 and caddied for members at Royal Melbourne. At the time, golf was his escape from the tumultuous time […]
FOLLOWING a three-win season on the LPGA Tour and in a year in which she reached a career high world ranking, Western Australian Hannah Green has been awarded her second Greg Norman Medal. At the PGA Awards Gala Dinner on Tuesday night more than 350 guests attended the glittering awards ceremony at Brisbane City […]
People have long thought of running a multi-course, professional tournament on the Melbourne Sandbelt. The courses are close together and Melbourne, along with New York, London and Philadelphia, is one of the four finest golf course cities in the world. Importantly the clubs have never hidden their courses behind closed gates. On the contrary, they have always embraced competitive […]
LEADING equipment manufacturer Callaway Golf, has signed on as the Official Equipment Partner and Supporting Sponsor of the New Zealand Open. Set to take place at Millbrook Resort in Queenstown between February 27 and March 2, 2025, the New Zealand Open will be contested for the 104th time, with this exciting partnership underscoring Callaway’s commitment […]
ESTABLISHED stars, a sprinkling of international talent and a crop of young guns ready to make their mark all adds up to an exciting summer of golf. Jason Day is heading home to Queensland to play his first tournament on Australian soil since 2017 when he contests the BMW PGA Championship, where he will be […]
JUST weeks after confirming her participation in the upcoming ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open, Hannah Green has claimed her third LPGA Tour title in 2024 with a victory at the BMW Ladies Championship in Korea. In a tournament played at the Seowon Valley Country Club, Green birdied the difficult 17th hole in posting a 19-under […]
PGA Australia has announced its post-Christmas Tour schedule, with four Webex Players Series events, where the men and women compete together, amongst the eight events planned. The brother-sister combination of Minjee and Min Woo Lee host the opening tournament of 2025 at the Royal Freemantle Golf Club, while the 2024-2025 tour schedule concludes with two […]
US PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has reached out to young Aussie golfer Jeffrey Guan who was released from the Sydney Eye Hospital in early October after being struck by an errant golf ball during a pro-am tournament on the NSW south coast. The freak accident occurred at a pro-am in Bateman’s Bay and just […]
RORY McIlroy is heading Down Under. But don’t get too excited because the four-time major champion is going to bypass Australia and head for New Zealand in the next few weeks. It will be the first time in his professional career that McIlroy has headed to the Shaky Isles. And sadly for golf fans the […]
THERE was wind, torrential rain and a determined challenge from his two closest pursuers on the final day, however it was Elvis Smylie who prevailed, the 22-year-old winning his first professional tournament with a victory at the Bowra & O’Dea Nexus Advisernet WA Open played at the Mandurah Country Club. Heavy rain over the closing […]
Australian Amateur Champion Quinn Croker has made the jump into the professional ranks. AUSSIE young guns Jasper Stubbs, Quinn Croker and Phoenix Campbell have turned professional after competing in the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in Japan in early October. The trio were part of a seven-strong Australian contingent at the Asia-Pacific, won by China’s Wenyi Ding, […]
Metropolitan’s venerated teaching professional, Brian Twite, is now 98 years old and as such the oldest living player who took part in the 1951 Open Championship at Royal Portrush in County Antrum, Northern Ireland. It was the first time the event had been played outside Scotland or England. Metro members led by Damian Quirk, eager […]
Karl Vilips is headed for the PGA TOUR in 2025. Rookie Australian professional Karl Vilips has qualified for the PGA TOUR in 2025 after finishing 19th on the Korn Ferry Tour moneylist following the season-ending Tour Championship. Featured in the September edition of Inside Golf, the 22-year-old Vilips posted top 15 finishes in each of […]
Cam Smith is a confirmed starter in three Challenger PGA Tour of Australasia events this summer. Smith commits to three Aussie tournaments Cameron Smith has officially confirmed his participation in three events during the upcoming Australian summer of golf, with the Queenslander set to play the NSW Open, Queensland PGA and BMW Australian PGA Championships. […]
Jason Day will return to Queensland to play his first tournament on home soil since 2017 at the 2024 BMW Australian PGA Championship on November 21-24. It will also be Day’s first appearance in a PGA Championship at Royal Queensland Golf Club, where he will join defending champion Min Woo Lee as one of the […]
Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and South Africa’s Ashleigh Buhai have confirmed they will defend their titles at the 2024 ISPS HANDA Australian Open to be held in Melbourne at Kingston Heath and The Victoria Golf Club’s from November 28 to December 1. Claiming her second consecutive Patricia Bridges Bowl in 2023, after winning across the same […]
Australian Travis Smyth is relishing the prospect of a late-season rankings charge on The International Series, as the Sydney professional goes into the final six tournaments of the year fuelled in large part by a transformation in his approach to diet. The 29-year-old is currently on a hot streak after finishing in a tie for […]
IT’S around about now when smart golf travellers start planning their bucket-list golf adventure to one of the four majors. If your choice is to attend the 153rd Open Championship (July 14-20, 2025) at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland it would be wise to start planning, and saving, especially for accommodation. If this year’s accommodation […]
Simon Hawkes will be the defending champion at the upcoming WA Open at what will be the 100th staging of the event. Bowra & O’Dea Funeral Directors and Nexus Advisernet have been confirmed as co-naming rights partners of the upcoming WA Open. GolfWA’s showpiece event tees off on October 17 for what will be the […]
YOUNG Chase Oberle couldn’t hide his disappointment after posting rounds of 73, 73 and 72 in the strokeplay stage of the Queensland Amateur Championship at Bribie Island in early September. It hadn’t occurred to him that shooting two over par for 54 holes on a tight, tough golf course, against some of the best amateurs […]
GOLD, to go with silver and bronze for star Kiwi New Zealand star Lydia Ko now has a complete set of Olympic medals after claiming the gold with a victory at the women’s golf event at the Paris Olympic Games. In her third Olympic Games, Ko won the silver medal in Rio de Janeiro, then […]
Underdog Internationals looking to upstage the Americans LED by world number six Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, buoyed by the likely inclusion of a couple of local stars, along with the addition of up to four Australians, and the International Team will be looking to take down the hot favourite Americans at the 15th staging of the […]
Andre Stolz has been a regular winner on the PGA Legends Tour since turning 50. By Peter Owen FOR someone who’s been the biggest money-earner on Australia’s Legends Tour for the past three years, and who is comfortably leading this season’s Order of Merit, Andre Stolz is curiously unfazed about his chances of being a […]
KEPERRA Country Golf Club’s second-year PGA associate professional – a young man who knows his way to the podium – recently took on the added responsibility of teaching members and guests the finer art of golf. Jordan Rooke is normally on the range honing his craft ahead of associate professional events but he didn’t hesitate […]
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