On Par – All about golf in Australia

The latest edition of Australian Golf Digest arrived in my mailbox this week, and there were no surprises to learn that Kingston Heath had indeed knocked off Royal Melbourne for top spot in the Top 100 courses in Australia. Kingston Heath narrowly beat New South Wales Golf Club, with Royal Melbourne West, Barnbougle and [...]

Steve Keipert, Editor of Australian Golf Digest (definitely worth a read) was interviewed recently on “The Pro Shop”, a weekly locally produced golf show on OneHD (definitely worth a look). Steve was discussing the bi-annual ranking of the Top 100 Australian Golf Courses. The Top 100 ranking like any other ranking is [...]

Played St Andrews Beach Golf course on the Mornington Peninsula recently with Scott and Anthony, and its well worth a visit. The Tom Doak designed Gunnamatta layout opened in late 2005 and was planned as an exclusive private 36 hole layout. The second course (Fingle) was to be added over the next year or [...]

Played golf after work yesterday with colleagues Nige and Linds. Teed off at about 5:30pm at Yarra Bend Golf Course, only a short drive from Melbourne CBD. The summer twilight golf deal is excellent, $15 unlimited golf from 3:30pm. There arent many golf courses around that cost less than $1 per hole! [...]

Last year I blogged about Tony Cashmore’s golf course designs which include the Dunes, 13th Beach and Heritage Henley courses.  Having recently played the stunning Eynesbury golf course, I have to add Graham Marsh to my favourite course designers.

Graham Marsh has designed courses throughout Australia, North America and Asia.  He makes the most of the [...]

Golf Australia have recently released their top 50 Australian courses. The top ten are:

ROYAL MELBOURNE (West course) (1) Designer: Dr Alister Mackenzie (1931) KINGSTON HEATH (2) Designer: Dan Soutar (1925) NEW SOUTH WALES (3) Designers: Alister Mackenzie (1928); Eric Apperly (1937 & 1951); Peter Thomson & Mike Wolveridge (1985); Jack Newton, Graeme Grant & John Spencer [...]

After recently playing the Heritage Golf and Country Clubs’ Henley Course, I’ve added another Tony Cashmore designed layout to my list of favourite courses.  Tony Cashmore has designed numerous layouts throughout Australia,

Yarrambat Park – A public course in North Eastern Melbourne, fantastic layout let down by a lack of water and [...]

Played golf today for the first time in a couple of months, and it showed. Rob and I headed to Waterford Valley Golf Course in Rowville.

Both started off well, I hit the first two greens in regulation but ominously 3 putted both after putting the approaches a LONG way from the [...]

Some days just aren’t meant for golf (sad but true!). Today was one of those days. Second round of the Herald Sun Matchplay, paired against Cameron a tennis teacher from Heidelberg Golf Club. With no practice since the last round, the swing felt closer to an axe swinging into wood than [...]

Played the first round of the Herald Sun Golf Challenge at the Growling Frog this morning against Rod from Heidelberg. Rod was complaining that he hadnt played for ages but proceeded to blitz early and won the first 3 holes. This was looking like a thrashing. Managed to stem the bleeding and [...]