A new-look course with Tom Doak’s fingerprints all over it is just one of the many reasons you need to tick the world-class Mornington Peninsula off your travel list.
When Greg Norman and Tiger Woods were pitted against each other in the singles matches of the 1998 Presidents Cup, pride and their place in golf history went on the line.
Evin Priest sat down with 15-time Major winner Tiger Woods days before the golf great captured a record-equalling 82nd PGA Tour victory at the Zozo Championship in Japan. Woods opened up in an exclusive Q&A about his love of Australia, its sporting culture and his “favourite” golf courses on the planet.
The emergence in 2001 of the first course at Thirteenth Beach drew golfers’ attentions to the south-western corner of Port Phillip Bay as the golf offerings on the Bellarine began to flourish.
Immensely long, vulnerable to the winds whipping off nearby Bass Strait and cratered by innumerate pot bunkers, the Open course at Moonah Links is about as tough as the game becomes.
