Sandbelt swales and clifftop slopes: the four uneven lies
A slope changes the club's effective loft and, sideways, its effective lie angle. Neither is a swing fault. How to set up for each of the four, on ground that is drying out under you.
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Royal Canberra Golf Club
A course built through an arboretum in order to save it: Royal Canberra moved to Westbourne Woods in 1962, on a routing James Scott…
Bankstown Golf Club
Established in 1928 in south-western Sydney: 6,068 metres of parkland with holes along the Georges River, a Group One rating and a course record…
Ballina Golf & Sports Club
Formed in 1908 by a meeting the mayor chaired, and moved twice since: a par 72 of 6,052 metres at East Ballina, long enough…
Golf, written for players in Australia
Panxis Golf covers the game as it is played here: firm couch fairways that run, Sandbelt bunkers with steep faces, first light in January and a season that peaks when the northern hemisphere shuts down. Equipment is judged on whether it changes a score, and the retailers and fitters we name are ones you can walk into. Distances are in metres, prices in Australian dollars. Nothing is a paid placement, no product is written up as though we had tested it when we have not, and every photograph is licensed and credited.