Australian Golf Passport
By Scott Warren & Matthew Mollica
This is an Australian golf podcast about Australian golf courses, taking listeners on a dream lap of every golf course worth considering for a Down Under bucket list golf visit. We answer the questions that will help you make your dream Aussie golf trip a reality. No Fedex Cup updates, no equipment reviews, no technology debate, no betting-agency-sponsored tipping segment: Just the how, what, when and where of playing great golf in Australia, with the occasional sacred cow sacrificed in the name of frank discussion, and lessons from the mistakes we made along the way, so you don’t have to.
Latest episode
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Episode Fifty Seven - Save Moore Park GC's Jared Kendler, plus latest Metro/Huntingdale news
Hot on the heels of the release of a plan by the Save Moore Park Golf Course alliance to keep the course at 18 holes, we chat with the driving force behind that alliance, Jared Kendler. Jared talks us through the issues an… -
Episode Fifty Six - Peninsula Kingswood (North) full post-mortem
The longest episode we've ever done! There was a lot to discuss... The keenly anticipated chat on one of the most dramatic, and visually striking courses in the land. Following on from Scott's whirlwind trip to Melbourne … -
Episode Fifty Five - Sandbelt trip wrap-up: PK & Commonwealth
Three days, five rounds, two course walks, 65,000 steps each. We're cooked. But before Scott gets on a plan home, we've got a quick recap of our rounds at Peninsula-Kingswood North and South, and a hotly-anticipated lap of the newly-renovate… -
Episode Fifty Four - Sandbelt golf trip day one: PK, Yarra, listener Qs
A quick debrief on the first day of our Melbourne Sandbelt golf trip. Not the day we had planned thanks to a 50mm drop of rain, but we still saw plenty and had a lot to discuss. -
Episode Fifty Three - Chris Solomon
A super special guest for the long overdue next episode of the podcast. Chris Solomon from No Laying Up joins us to share his views on all things golf Down Under. Soly has travelled here several times over the years, with his visits bookende… -
Episode Fifty Two - Aussie golf media doyen Brendan James
Brendan James, long-time editor of Golf Australia magazine is our special guest for this episode. Brendan is a doyen of the Australian Golf Media landscape, spending more than quarter of a century at the helm of Golf Australia magazine. He’… -
Episode Fifty One - Gil Hanse & Josh McFadden on Royal Sydney GC
A thrill to speak with John McFadden and Gil Hanse of Hanse Golf Design. Both are visiting our country to complete work on the course at Royal Sydney Golf Club. This exciting development is entering the home stretch, after years of planning… -
Episode Fifty - Metro/Huntingdale merger, Five Mile Beach update & other news
We've made it to 50 episodes! Metropolitan and Huntingdale are planning to merge, the Aussie Open is back on the sandbelt, some news about the likely architect of Five Mile Beach, two more courses for King Island (… -
Episode Forty Nine - Architecture listener questions
Following on from our previous episode examining why course architcture is an important part of the game of golf, we rip through 20 listener questions on the topic: Should short par threes have small greens or big wild ones? Where would an Aussie Pin… -
Episode Forty Eight - Why Does Golf Architecture Matter?
Following on from a listener DM regarding course design issues, we devote an entire episode to the topic of golf architecture. Why does it matter? Why is the Old Course important, and why is Alister MacKenzie revered? How is it so many people long fo…
