One of the more hotly contested redesign jobs in Australia was awarded to the newly formed Ogilvy Clayton Design team last week, the company appointed by the Royal Canberra Golf Club to prepare a Masterplan for major course works, post the 2013 Aussie Women's Open. Back in October the club’s board had sent an expression of interest document to course architects and design companies across Australia, with a short list of four announced in mid November and including Crafter & Mogford,....

Just when you thought that Robert Trent Jones II’s design company had scraped the marketing barrel with its Green Proclamation of a few years back, an even fluffier and more pointless piece of spin was released this week – the Robert Trent Jones II Public Golf Proclamation.

While this article is unlikely to win me any new fans in my hometown, there are times when certain questions just need to be asked. And the burning question right now, for me, is whether Melbourne’s Sandbelt is over-rated?