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Each month, Golf Australia showcases great Australian courses and golfing holidays, profiles players and conducts road tests of the latest equipment. Leading PGA professional share instruction tips to improve your game and keep your handicap tumbling.

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BAIRNSDALE GOLF CLUB • With hints of the Melbourne Sandbelt across the layout, this East Gippsland course has slipped under the radar for far too long. But no more, as more travelling city golfers discover its delights.

HUGGAN’S ALLEY

KINGSTON HEATH TO HOST PRESIDENTS CUP

ROB BRADLEY

NELSON CLAIMS 11 WINS IN-A-ROW • AUGUST 4,1945

AROUND THE CLUBS

WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO WITH YOUR MOBILE PHONE

HOT & NOT

THE CADDY (1953)

FLASHBACK • JULY 9, 1949

IN MY OPINION

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PEACE & a new DAWN • It was the story that sent the world into a tizzy. Golf’s civil war seemingly done and dusted when protagonists Jay Monahan and Yasir Al-Rumayyan appeared side-by-side to tell the world the PGA Tour and Saudi golf interests would merge.

CAM’S OPEN Defence • It is 66 years since Peter Thomson followed up his Open Championship victory at St. Andrews by winning the Claret Jug at Royal Liverpool the next year. Cameron Smith now has a chance to follow in his ample footsteps.

AUSSIES IN THE OPEN FIELD

THE MAGIC of HOYLAKE • Hoylake has a hard task following the 150th Open at St Andrews, but it can deliver a unique spectacle unlike any other course on The Open rota, as Michael Catling explains

DOES THE NEW PAR-3 17TH LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?

amazing GRACE • Grace Kim might still be in her rookie year on the LPGA Tour, but she could be a surprise contender in her first Women’s Open Championship this month.

WHERE THE OPEN WILL BE WON OR LOST

Meet The FURROWS • The Melbourne Sandbelt’s newest course is a little beauty.

BUILD A BETTER SHORT GAME • There’s a Tour-proven short game system for every greenside shot – and this is how to do it …

THE RIGHT SHOT AT THE RIGHT TIME • When to use which release

THE ADDRESS

THE MOTION

THE ADDRESS

THE MOTION

THE ADDRESS

THE MOTION

SMART GOLF WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS

A GUARANTEED BUNKER SHOT SAVIOR

THE BEST WAY TO AVOID THREE-PUTTING

GRIPPING DOWN FOR CONTROL

ALIGNMENT IS KEY

MT COOLUM GOLF CLUB

YARRA VALLEY LUXURY

AN AUGUSTA, PINEHURST DOUBLE

ST ANDREWS BEACH • MORNINGTON PENINSULA • VICTORIA

INVEST IN A SMARTER BUGGY

ENJOY THE WALK

MORE SPEED, PERFORMANCE & MATERIALS

PING G430 DRIVERS

SCOTTY CAMERON SUPER SELECT PUTTERS

SPIN KINGS

THE FINAL PUTT