Entertainment golf: from the bay to the first tee
Off-course participation now exceeds on-course participation in Australia. Whether that produces golfers depends less on the venues than on whether anyone is standing on…
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Who plays golf now, what they spend, and how the game is changing — participation, club membership, women’s golf, and the technology reshaping practice.
Launch monitors at home: what the unit measures
One number justifies the category for an amateur: carry distance, which almost no club golfer has honestly. The rest is decoration, and the sticker…
The under-40 wave and the clubs that adapted
Under-forty golfers are the fastest-growing group in the Australian game, and most of them arrived through a simulator bay rather than a junior programme.…
Water, chemicals and what the drought changed
Brown fairways in August are a sign of a course managed well, not a course in trouble. The useful question is not whether golf…
One in seven Australians plays golf: the numbers and the easiest ways in
More than four million adults played in 2024/25, and social and virtual membership grew 14.8 per cent, four times the rate of traditional club…