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With a couple of big tournaments happening on Adelaide a coupe of months in a row I felt it appropriate to get another interviewee from the driest capital city of Australia and this time I'm joined on the podcast by first time guest Richard James, Superintendent of Kooyonga Golf Club, in the lead up to hosting the Women's Australian Open in a couple of weeks time. Richard gives us a brief outline of what makes up Kooyonga GC and just how the course is shaping up for the national tournament and it's great to get an insight into yet another one of Australia's premier tournament golf courses.

Of course I do the usual run around Australia and New Zealand with a run through of a month on epic women's tournaments in Australia, some pretty interesting news coning out of public golf still under intense pressure in Sydney, the closing down of the 118yr old Corowa Golf Club on the Murray River, the opening of Huntingdale's new full course design, the opening of phase 2 of the KruseGolf and CDP design works at Royal Perth GC, along with a whole lot more.

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Royal Wellington Golf Club

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Darcy Jones is the Superintendent at Catalina Club in Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast. This is a big golf facility of 27 holes that is soon to begin some changes to the site by golf course architects KruseGolf and Clayton DeVries Pont (CDP) working together as part of the clubs forward vision.

Darcy was introduced to golf where he grew up as a young kid in south western NSW and upon his family moving to the NSW South Coast, he soon became more interested in the game and where he became an apprentice greenkeeper working with his twin brother.

Upon completing his apprenticeship Darcy was soon looking for something more and he would find his way to Wimbledon in London, England! After working for a time in the UK, Darcy headed back to Australia and landed a role at Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

I won't share anymore other than to say that Darcy has experienced a great deal in his career all the way to becoming Superintendent at Catalina Club, and I'm sure you'll enjoy his story along with learning a few things about Catalina Club and it's very bright future ahead. It's time to kick back and enjoy this chat and maybe even plan your next golf trip to the south coast of NSW.

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Catalina Club

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Clayton DeVries Pont (CDP)

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Narooma Golf Club

Bermagui Country Club

All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club

Royal Wimbledon Golf Club

Tura Beach Country Club

Royal Canberra Golf Club

Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Sandy Golf Links

Victoria Golf Club

OCM Golf Design

The Dunes Golf Links

St. Andrews Beach Golf Course

13th Beach Golf Links

Lonsdale Links

NSW Golf Club

Royal Sydney Golf Club

Killara Golf Club

EP.95 Keeper of the Greens - Richard Forsyth

EP.70 Keeper of the Greens - Pat Wilson

EP.111 Keeper of the Greens - Josh Smith

EP.159 Keeper of the Greens - Adam Marchant

EP.135 Steve's Random Special Guest - Mike O'Keeffe

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If you haven't heard of The Cliffs Kangaroo Island yet, trust me, you soon will!

Sam Atkins is a passionate man, a passionate owner of this new golf course, and a passionate and proud South Australian. Sam joins me to discuss in detail the full story of The Cliffs Kangaroo Island, how the idea was spawned, what has gone into building this somewhat mysterious new golf course on an island off South Australia, what challenges they have had to overcome, and just what it means to be able to offer a new golf course such as this to the Australian golf landscape.

Join with me as Sam lets us in on the passion behind this project, what we can expect from the golf course and the hospitality when we finally get there, and just what makes Kangaroo Island so special in general! This is one conversation you won't want to miss out on so grab you favourite beverage of choice, kick your feet up and prepare to grab your diary to book in your trip to Kangaroo Island to experience The Cliffs when it's open for play!

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The Cliffs KI Instagram

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Darius Oliver

⁠Justin Trott⁠

Kooyonga Golf Club

Cape Wickham Golf Links

Ocean Dunes Golf Course

Southern Ocean Lodge

Penneshaw Pub

Parndana Golf Club

Ellerston Golf

Barnbougle

7 Mile Beach Golf Course

Emu Bay Lavender Farm

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This time around it's LIV Adelaide week and we all want to know how the course is getting ready for the tournament so I am joined by Superintendent Rowan Daymond for an update. There's some fresh news coming in from Redcliffe Golf Club in QLD with their new construction works designed by Crafter Mogford , there's a whole lot of info coming out of the Newcastle GC in NSW with their significant rebuild currently happening as part of their new design by Harrison Golf, I visit Australia's 1st specifically designed 12 hole golf course that is soon to open as the reimagined Newgreens Chatswood in Sydney, along with a whole lot more!

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Maleny Golf Club

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Grange Golf Club

Kooyonga Golf Club

Club Tocumwal

Murray Downs Resort

Northbridge Golf Club

Newcastle Golf Club

Harrison Golf

Newgreens Chatswood

Royal Wellington Golf Club

Women's Amatuer Asia Pacific - Royal Wellington Golf Club

Lakes Resort Pauanui

EP.156 Keeper of the Greens - John Spraggs

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Tom North is the current Superintendent of Royal Hobart Golf Club in Tasmania. Tom is a young Super in most people's eyes, but it's his strive for excellence where he stands out from the rest.

Growing up in a the regional township of Broadmarsh, just to the north of Hobart, Tom was a keen young golfer playing on the family farms or the local 9 hole golf course at Elderslie Golf Club.

Whilst greenkeeping wasn't exactly what was always looking to do as a career, he left school when he successfully applied for a greenkeeping apprenticeship at Royal Hobart. Working through his apprenticeship to become qualified, Tom quickly made the next step in his career at the neighbouring Llanherne Golf Club as Superintendent. Here Tom would carve out his own brand of greenkeeping where he worked hard for a number of years lifting the profile of Llanherne and also his own career.

When the Superintendents role at Royal Hobart was vacated, Tom was quick to throw his hat on the ring at the age of 25, and the rest as they say is history!

Join me as Tom walks us through his fast tracked greenkeeping career that goes full circle very quickly from the bottom to the top at Royal Hobart Golf Club as we also hear about how Royal Hobart are improving their course and facilities in a modern world where many more golfing eyes are looking at Hobart as a golf destination!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

Royal Hobart Golf Club

Elderslie Golf Club

Llanherne Golf Club

7 Mile Beach Golf Course

Arm End Golf Course

Tasmania Golf Club

North West Bay Golf Club

Kingston Beach Golf Club

Ratho Farm

EP.134 Keeper of the Greens - Brad Palmer

EP.59 Keeper of the Greens - Shaun Bowden

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This segment of Walking the Fairways has plenty of news including an onsite catch up with Superintendent Luke Diserens of Northbridge Golf Club where I'm shown around an incredibly unique golf course along with a great deal of work that Luke and his course team have been working through to improve the quality of the golf course for members and visitors.

I'm also joined on this episode by Terry Vogel, past guest of the pod and Superintendent of Cobram Barooga Golf Club, as they get ready for the latest Webex Players Series tournament right in the middle of some ridiculously extreme summer conditions!

There also plenty of rain that was received along the east coast of NSW and New Zealand's North Island, and lots of other new info from Queensland, South Australia and a touch from the public Albert Park Golf Course in melbourne.

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Northbridge Golf Club

Cobram Barooga Golf Club

Gibbston Valley Golf Course - Golf Course Architecture Magazine

Tauranga Golf Club

Otumoetai Golf Club

Lakes Resort Golf and Country Club

Lakelands Golf Club

RACV Royal Pines

Brisbane Golf Club

Rich River Golf Club

Benalla Golf Club

Thurgoona Country Club Resort

Wellington Golf Club (NSW)

Merewether Golf Club

Newcastle Golf Club

Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club

Albert Park Golf Course

Aston Hills Golf Club

Glenelg Golf Club

The Cliffs Kangaroo Island

Ocean Dunes King Island

Cairns Golf Club

EP.108 Keeper of the Greens - Terry Vogel

EP.141 Keeper of the Greens - Damien Bell

EP.75 Keeper of the Greens - Tim Warren

EP.69 Sustainable Golf - Monina Gilbey

EP.121 The Design Brief - Ryan Van Der Veen

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Anita Mitchell is someone who loves greenkeeping! She will be the first to tell you that she hasn't done it forever, but you'll quickly notice just how much she enjoys her profession!

Anita has the privilege of only working at one golf course thus far in her career - the incredible Te Arai Links in New Zealand!

There's a running theme during this podcast, and that is to have a laugh! Between bloopers and hilarious comments, we had an absolute blast recording this episode!

Join Anita and I, as Anita walks us through her relatively short career and an true love for greenkeeping, beginning at a time during the construction of these two world renowned golf courses! Oh yeah, and we have a good laugh and many things along the way!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:
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Te Arai Links
Waverley Golf Club
Rangatira Golf Club
Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club
Coore & Crenshaw
Tom Doak Design
Renaissance Design
Royal Wellington Golf Club
Tara Iti Golf Club
EP.147 Keeper of the Greens - John Spraggs

Avondale Golf Club is celebrating 100 years in 2026!

We pick up the story of Avondale Golf Club in 1949 after the club had approached Prosper Ellis, a leading amateur golfer and golf course architect of the time, to see if he could improve the unchanged Avondale golf course.

From the 1970s to the 1990's the club would engage a number of different golf course architects, all of which were leading experts of the time. The 1990's also brought about a the Eastern Seaboard Fires that were devastating to Northern Sydney and Avondale was no exception.

I'm also joined on the podcast by a number of people to help me tell the story of the club's most recent 25yrs. We explore from personal detail, how the club and course have evolved to produce a growing crop of young juniors for the club's future, and a highly regarded golf course and recognised environmental sanctuary of Sydney.

Oh, yeah, and did I mention Grace Kim?!

Join me as we continue our journey, but this time with a more personal insight, as we embark on part 2 of Avondale's history on the way to 2026 in celebration of 100yrs of Avondale Golf Club.

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

⁠Avondale Golf Club⁠

⁠Prosper Ellis - Wiki

Eric Apperly - Top100golfcourses.com

Riversdale Golf Club

Society of Australian Golf Course Architects

Vale Peter McMaugh - ASTMA Article

Kel Nagle - Wiki

Ross Watson - Planet Golf Article

Audubon International

1994 Eastern Seaboard Fires - Wiki

Avondale Cadet Program

Avondale Amateur

Grace Kim - Wiki

Grace Kim playoff win 2025 Amundi Evian Championship - Youtube

Harrison Endycott - Wiki

Harrison Endycott - PGA Tour profile

Avondale Golf Club Superintendent Rob Biddle - Joint Claude Crockford Award Winner - ASTMA Article

Australian Sports Turf Managers Association (ASTMA)

Crafter + Mogford Golf Strategies

⁠EP.93 Aussie Golf History Killara Golf Club

Avondale Golf Club is celebrating 100 years in 2026!

Avondale Golf Club in Sydney began life during a boom of golf after WWI. Started by a group of well to do businessmen of the Upper North Shore, Avondale was one of many golf courses that were being hastily built during this time.

Folklore has always held that the Avondale club was a frustrated breakaway of members from the nearby Killara Golf Club, but extensive new research into the origins of Avondale's story, not only showed folklore to be a fallacy, but also opened up an entire new understanding of Avondale's origins. A strong Scottish connection between the club's pioneers and the earliest golf experts at its beginning is arguably larger than any other in Australia. And when coupled with previously unknown information of Dan Soutar's involvement, you know there is a distinct recipe and drive for success!

Part 1 of Avondale Golf Club's earliest history explores the extent of its Scottish background, exactly how this golf club would go on to choose one of the most inhospitable sites for a golf course in Sydney's unique bush landscape, and tell the story of its path to being Eric Apperly's first ever golf course design.

Join me for an amazing journey through the life of one of Sydney's hidden treasures in a way never heard before, to a depth the club itself never knew they had!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

Avondale Golf Club

Sir Robert Gillespie - Australian Dictionary of Biography

Dan Soutar - Wiki

Dan Soutar's first article describing the site for the future Avondale Golf Club - The Sun (newspaper) 17th February 1925

Eric Apperly - Top100golfcourses.com

Eric Apperly's lost pro shop architectural drawings

Dame Joan Hammond - Wiki

Killara Golf Club

Concord Golf Club

Manly Golf Club

Goulburn Golf Club

The Australian Golf Club

The Lakes Golf Club

Eastlake Golf Club

Pymble Golf Club

Australian Golf Heritage Society

EP.93 Aussie Golf History Killara Golf Club

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There's a little going on around Australia and New Zealand to begin 2026 and this is the right podcast to stay up to date with all of it. From a cyclone in QLD to bushfires in VIC, a new course soon to open in NZ and one soon to begin in QLD. It's all here for you to stay up to date and even consider just where your next golf trip will be.

You hit 'em clean and we'll keep 'em green!

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People and places mentioned in this podcast:

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Envu - Instagram & Facebook

Mackay Golf Club

Proserpine Golf Club

Tropical Cyclone Koji - abc.net.au

Byelee Waters Golf Project

Gladstone Golf Club

Gibbston Valley Golf Club - Golf Course Architecture

Fox Hills Golf Club

Penrith Golf Club

Flagstaff Hill Golf Club

Cathedral Lodge & Golf Club

Alexandra Golf Club

Longwood Bushfire Victoria - news.com.au

Arm End Golf Course

Arm End Golf Course - Facebook

Titirangi Golf Club

Windross Farm Golf Course