Short game after winter: dormant couch, Canberra frosts, sandbelt firmness and sticky kikuyu
Winter is over in the south, but the ground around the greens has not caught up. Couch that slept from May to September in…
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Playing an inverted calendar: summer heat and early tee times, winter in the tropics, and the trips that fill the months when the south is cold and wet.
Three objects, two square metres: the home routine for wet Octobers and the southern winter
A putting mat, an alignment stick and a mirror in two square metres of floor: the twenty-minute routine for the weeks Australian golf takes…
Golf in the Australian heat: BoM heatwave warnings, UV from 3 and your club’s 36°C rule
The first hot Saturday of summer usually arrives before the sunscreen in your bag has been replaced. Here is how to plan a round…
Frost in Canberra, storms in Brisbane, the wet in Darwin: how your course changes over a year
A 150 metre post reads the same in July and February, but the shot does not. From Sandbelt summers to Top End wet seasons,…
When summer golf ends in Australia: clean-up, stats, trade-ins and winter pennant
The Australian season fades rather than stops, so most golfers never close it. An hour of cleaning, a look at the numbers and a…
The spring countdown: six weeks to get your game ready for the southern golf season
Southern golf comes back to life between September and October. Book the regrip and the fitting first, wake the body with half swings, sharpen…
The winter golf trip: Queensland, the tropics, Thailand, Vietnam
The Southeast runs on an inverted calendar: peak in winter, cheapest in summer, and best value in the shoulders. The detail that ruins trips…
Summer golf: beating the heat, early tee times and hydration
Australian summer golf is a scheduling problem before it is a technique problem. The tee time decides more than anything else on the list.