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.

Australian golf has a new number 1. For the first time since Australian Golf Digest started publishing a Top 100 ranking of golf courses in the 1980s, the West Course at Royal Melbourne has topped our biennial list. Until 2010 every previous ranking compiled by this magazine had featured the Composite Course at Royal Melbourne in top spot. Last time it was the sublime Kingston Heath that instead took first place. While the accolade was fully deserved, it was an honour that even the most passionate Kingston Heath member must have accepted was only temporary.