Australian Golf Media – representing the shared media interests of the PGA of Australia, the WPGA Tour and Golf Australia – this week celebrates a milestone edition of Inside The Ropes. Inside the ropes The podcast, regularly co-hosted by Andy Maher, Mark Hayes, Alison Whitaker …
One of New Zealand’s golfing greats opened a new short course in Wanaka yesterday in the hope it will inspire young people to take up the sport. The crowd cheered as Sir Bob Charles, winner of the 1963 British Open, hit the first ball from …
As the new Kennedy Bay golf clubhouse continues to take shape, plans for the multi-million transformation of Links Kennedy Bay were revealed last month. Alongside the new golf clubhouse, the reinstatement of an improved links course will act as an entry statement to the Kennedy …
The first fairways, tees and greens at Brisbane’s first new public golf course in 70 years have taken shape in the city’s east, with work under way on the $25 million, 18-hole course. King of the Tingalpa tribe The first fairways, tees and greens at …
The new owners of Terrace Downs have reopened the luxury golf and accommodation resort at Windwhistle in Mid-Canterbury. New Zealand-owned hotel group CPG Hotels bought the resort for $6.6 million late last year after its previous owner, Japanese investor Hiroshi Hasegawa, died in Japan from …
Wholesale business Australian Golf Supplies Pty Ltd (AGS) has recently been appointed the exclusive national distributor for Marki and American company CMC Design. The newfound synergies will …
Former Morgan Stanley investment banker Jack Dahan has acquired the Sands golf resort in Torquay on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula for $12.8 million, paying just over half what it changed hands for four years ago. Half price The 76-hectare resort, originally developed by Rupert Murdoch’s nephew, …
Sir Russell Coutts once told Mountain Scene his golf game’s ”crap”, but that isn’t stopping the yachting legend from hoping to extend his field of dreams on the Crown Terrace. He’s applied to Queenstown’s council for resource consent to add another three holes to the …
A band of unruly dirt bikers have been filmed taking to an East Auckland golf course doing wheelies and “boosting around” greens and roads while players try to execute shots. Golfers enjoying a quiet round yesterday afternoon at Howick Golf Course found themselves sharing the …
The Royal Auckland and Grange Golf Club has hit the rough with its plan to rezone its 80 hectare course in Papatoetoe. The Ōtara-Papatoetoe Local Board voted on Tuesday to unanimously oppose the proposal. But despite the board’s decision, the exclusive golf club is still …
