According to reliable industry sources, plans have been confirmed for the new private St Andrews Beach golf course on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Named St Andrews Private Golf Club, the layout will be designed by veteran architect Ross Perrett and sit alongside the existing Tom Doak-desig

Last month we drew comparisons between heavily manufactured dunes courses in Scotland and Wisconsin, with our poll respondents clearly of the view that Kingbarns (80% of votes) was superior to this year’s controversial PGA Championship venue, Whistling Straits (which only received 20% of votes

Later this month the final major championship for 2010 will be played on the Straits Course at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, designed by enigmatic 80+ year-old architect Pete Dye. Whistling Straits first opened for play in 1998, two years prior to Scotland’s Kingsbarns course, which is a sim