The February 2024 issue of Inside Golf is online for your reading pleasure. This month: HOVLAND EYEING OFF A HUGE 2024 With an Aussie by his side WIN – A HAWAIIAN TRIP OF A LIFETIME AUSTRALIANS DOMINATE MAJOR US Q-SCHOOLS OPINION The Golf Ball Rollback – What do we think? 100TH ANNIVERSARY Gailes Golf Club GOLF IN SOUTH EAST ASIA SOUTHERN CHARM The NSW South Coast LIFESTYLE LIVING Golf Course Living … and much more! READ ONLINE HERE The post February 2024 Issue of Inside Golf is Online first appeared on Inside Golf. Australia's Most-Read Golf Magazine as named by Australian Golfers - FREE ..read more

Peter Lonard has won every Major Australian Championship at least twice, beat the yanks on the PGA Tour?, toweled up Phil Mickelson in the Presidents Cup!! But the one achievement that’s eluded him is an interview with Larry and Gary on Backspin. Well listeners, that’s all changed. Despite his incredible playing record, Pete’s one of the most grounded, unaffected blokes you’d ever meet and his yarns on Augusta, the White House, Gary Player etc. are absolute gold. Inside Golf Editor and former winning Tour Player Rob Willis asks Gary how Scotty Scheffler hits the ball better than anyone else on ..read more

Victor Hovland embraced the local Hawaiian culture in his first event of the new PGA TOUR schedule at The Sentry at Kapalua, in kick starting a year in which the young gun will have his sights firmly set on major championship success.  There or there abouts for most of the week at The Sentry, Hovland couldn’t quite reel in eventual winner Chris Kirk, however there was enough to like about his initial outing to have his supporters believing he can build on his exceptional 2023 season.  The winner of the Tour Championship in August, the PGA TOUR’s FedEx Cup finale, Hovland emerged as t ..read more

IN the second installment of an extensive interview with Inside Golf’s US correspondent Garrett Johnston, Stuart Appleby talks about some his most memorable golfing moments, from winning on the PGA Tour, to his near miss in the British Open, and playing alongside Tiger Woods at Augusta. Now competing on the PGA TOUR Champions, Appleby is one of Australia’s most respected golfing exports.  Your first PGA Tour win was the 1997 Honda Classic, how do you reflect back on that now? It was a completion of a lot of things for me. I played quite a few holes on Sunday. I got a bit fortunate because ..read more

By Peter Owen CAMERON Percy, who was once putting so poorly he played an entire tournament without looking at the hole, has earned himself a spot on one of the world’s highest profile golf tours. Percy, who did not play golf until he picked up a set of his grandmother’s old clubs at the age of 15, is one of four Australians who won places on the PGA Tour Champions following a gruelling series of qualifying tournaments late last year. When he turns 50 in early May, he’ll be lining up against some of the best over 50 golfers on the planet – potentially giving himself the opportunity to earn a lu ..read more

2023 NSW Women’s Open winner, Momoka Kobori. THE magnificent Magenta Shores Golf Course on the NSW Central Coast will host the $500,000 Women’s NSW Open for the first time in 2024.   A championship which tees off on March 29, the event is set to attract over 120 elite female golfers from across Australia and around the world, with the co-sanctioned Women’s NSW Open featuring around 90 international players from the Ladies European Tour (LET), 30 WPGA competitors, plus a contingent of Australia’s elite female amateurs.  Golf NSW CEO Stuart Fraser, said the organisation looked forward ..read more

Links at Kennedy Bay. IN a WA-first, Links Kennedy Bay (LKB), managed by Clublinks Management, has bucked the trend by introducing electric scooters, adding to an already unique golfing experience.  In offering an alternative to traditional golf carts, the 20 new and environmentally friendly scooters provide golfers with a different and enjoyable way to navigate the Port Kennedy course. Imported by Golf Chariots, the scooters have enough battery to last 18-holes and come with a single leather seat, a basket to hold a medium-sized esky, and a stand to securely carry a large golf bag.  ..read more

A DISTRIBUTION partnership between Champion Sports and PXG, a company dedicated to developing the world’s finest golf equipment and apparel, is set to ensure golfers in Australia and New Zealand have access to some of the world’s finest golf clubs.   In finally making its way to Australia the new partnership will enable PXG to expand its reach and provide top-quality golf equipment to a wider audience of players.  Following a limited distribution strategy, 50 top accounts in Australia will be supported by Champion Sports, with a similar model to be employed in New Zealand.  Add ..read more

BUNKER-TO-BUNKER…. Inside Golf writers have their say! By Peter Owen FOR most of us, the proposed ball rollback doesn’t really matter much. It would mean our drives are perhaps four or five metres shorter, and if the members kicked up any sort of a fuss, well, the tee markers could be moved up a fraction. No, the proposal is aimed squarely at limiting the enormous distances the world’s elite players hit the ball – something that has come about not just because of their unquestioned talent and fitness, but through years of technological improvement in equipment. The proposal, endorsed by the U ..read more

“The (Gailes) layout is first rate. There is little to criticise and I was tickled to death to be able to play there. I’ll bet that course develops some (great) players because they have to play golf there.” – GENE SARAZEN, 1934 GAILES Golf Club’s history is a fortunate one, made possible by Dr Henry Byam Ellerton. Born in London in 1871, Dr Ellerton graduated from Nottingham Asylum and went on to become its senior medical assistant officer. Then, in 1908, the Queensland Government called applications in England and Australia for a medical superintendent at the Hospital for the Insane, Goodna ..read more