Entertainment golf: does the bay feed the course?
Off-course play is now counted because it is too large to ignore. A bay builds a swing; the first nine holes make a golfer.
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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: which numbers are real
Carry distance and ball speed are reliable. Australia is one of the better places to own a radar unit, and one of the worst…
The under-40 wave and what clubs do about it
One Australian in seven plays some form of golf. Nine-hole competitions, twilight rates and pace of play are what keeps the younger ones.
Water, chemicals and what the drought changed
Recycled water, stormwater harvesting and warm-season grasses came out of the Millennium drought. A fawn sandbelt fairway in February is the point.
One in seven Australians plays golf: the numbers and the easiest ways in
Four million adults, 1.8 million playing without a club, and social membership growing four times faster than the traditional kind.