According to Melbourne’s The Age newspaper. there has been uproar in the city over state Planning Minister Matthew Guy’s decision to approve the relocation of the 99-year old Eastern Golf Club. The decision will allow the club to move from its present land-locked home in Doncaster to a n

Planet Golf can report that work started earlier this month on the new St Andrews Private Golf Club down at St Andrews Beach on the Mornington Peninsula. Designed by Ross Perrett and Peter Thomson, St Andrews Private will be an invitation only club limited to just 281 people deemed, by the devel

That the Ipswich Golf Club finds itself in financial trouble will surprise few, especially those familiar with the club’s recently ‘upgraded’ Wayne Grady golf course. Golf clubs across southeast Queensland have been struggling in recent times due to the economic downturn in the sta

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

Golf Monthly Magazine in the United Kingdom has released its 2012 ranking of the Top 100 golf courses in the British Isles. The list follows hot on the heels of the Golf World debacle, where the unopened Trump International Scotland course was ranked 8th in the UK/Ireland and ahead of Royal Dornoch

In news that will hardly shock observers of the Asian golf industry, it was announced this week that organizers of the Asia Pacific Golf Summit will yet again honor Jack Nicklaus at their annual talkfest. This will be the fourth Summit in a row that has feted the Golden Bear, this time with the grea

There are many dream jobs in golf but for Bob Harrison, the Australian designer of the new Ardfin course on Jura, this project must be close to pure fantasy. Harrison is the man charged with building a world-class golf course on a 14,000-acre estate at the southern tip of the sparsely populated Scot

Canada’s popular SCORE Golf Magazine released its latest Top 100 rankings this month, with few changes at the top but plenty of interest right through the list. For as long as we can remember, The National Golf Club of Canada has held the number 1 spot in the biennial rankings, and once again

We believe the organizing committee for Rio 2016 made an astute decision by engaging Gil Hanse and his team to design and build the new Olympic golf course in Brazil. What do you think, was Hanse the best candidate or should they have gone with somebody else? Vote now. Who should have won the 2016

Promising news from the New South Wales Hunter Valley last week, that Capital Corporation’s proposed new $150 million golf and recreation resort in Cessnock is still on the cards. As reported in local newspaper, ‘The Advertiser’, the new golf course will be designed by Jack Nicklau

One of the more hotly contested redesign jobs in Australia was awarded to the newly formed Ogilvy Clayton Design team last week, the company appointed by the Royal Canberra Golf Club to prepare a Masterplan for major course works, post the 2013 Aussie Women’s Open. Back in October the clubâ€

It was announced over the weekend by the organizing committee for the 2016 Olympic games that eight finalists had been selected for its golf course design contest. As readers will no doubt be aware, golf is returning to the Olympics in Brazil in five years after an absence of more than a century,

Earlier this week, the Bonnie Doon Golf Club welcomed defending Australian Open Champion Geoff Ogilvy back to the club to inspect the works being carried out by his design company Ogilvy Clayton Golf Design. Ogilvy Clayton began work on a major redevelopment of the Bonnie Doon GC in May, and with St

Observing from afar, the lashing dished out to Cog Hill and its redesign architect Rees Jones during the recent BMW Championship seemed astonishing. I’m not suggesting the criticism was unwarranted in any way, but I am surprised at the tone of some of the vitriol and, more importantly, the qua

Those who follow developments in Asia closely, will be aware that shortly after assuming the mantle of the World’s highest ranked professional golfer, England’s Luke Donald bowed to the inevitable and announced he was designing his first course, in Danang, Vietnam. The project is known

The organizers of the Asia Pacific Golf Summit announced yesterday that Gary Player was returning for the third straight year, this time to accept induction into the Asia Pacific Hall of Fame, which is administered by the group that runs the annual Summit. For Player this is yet ‘another disti

News out of Asia this week, that the 2011 Asia Pacific Golf Summit in Pattaya will feature British legend Tony Jacklin as one of its keynote speakers. Following from the ‘love-fest’ of previous years, where the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Peter Thomson, Greg Norman and Annika So

Staggering reports overnight from the Arabian Business magazine, which claims to have seen documents confirming the fee paid to Tiger Woods by developers of the stalled Tiger Woods Dubai project. The magazine claims that Woods has already received more than $55 million from UAE developer Tatweer, de

In May the venue for the 2018 Ryder Cup in Europe will be announced, and among the contenders is the yet-to-be built Comporta Links course in Portugal, to be designed by Tom Fazio in collaboration with European Golf Design. What’s telling about recent announcements from Portugal, is not that T

Reports recently have confirmed golf’s worst kept secret, that Tiger Woods Dubai – the former World No. 1’s debut golf design project – was in financial trouble and being put on hold. Tiger Woods Dubai was first floated back in 2006, but struck trouble the following year when