Australian Golf Passport
Episodes
Ep87: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses - Part 3
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We finally arrive at the crescendo of our inaugural Australian Top 50 Golf Course rankings. After pulling up stumps during the late night recording of...
Ep86: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses - Part 2
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We (slowly) approach the pointy end of the inaugural Australian Golf Passport Top 50 Australian Golf Course Rankings, with the intention of working fr...
Ep85: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An episode we’ve looked forward to recording for all of 2025. We unveil the back half of our inaugural Australian Golf Passport Top 50 Australian Go...
Ep84: Simon Holt, World Top 100 panel chair
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A wide-ranging discussion with one of the best guys and keenest minds in golf travel and architecture this episode – one of Edinburgh’s favourite ...
Ep 83: Aussie Open mojo restored
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A quick catch-up for Scott and Matt after a week that saw the men's Australian Open reborn at Royal Melbourne.Rory, the course, the set-up, a supe...
Ep82: 7 Mile Beach
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A long time in the making – we’ve been busting to record this episode after visiting a week ago. Australian Golf Passport hit 7 Mile Beach last we...
Ep81: First look at Kangaroo Island, new World Top 100, Vic GC vs Cheltenham & Dean from Seed
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A mixed bag of interesting topics this week:Footage of the fully-grassed course at The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island emerged recently and warranted discus...
Ep80: Tom de Jersey
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Motivated by Scott’s personal journey with his swing and fitness through 2025, we sit down for a great chat with Tom de Jersey. Tom is a Sydney base...
Ep79: Listener Questions (Tassie green fees, Kangaroo Island mayo, best cheap courses & more)
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Listener questions episodes have always been among our most popular, and we're back with 30 questions from our audience: ranging from the green fe...
Ep78: Tom Doak
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A real treat to speak with one of the world’s greatest golf course architects – Tom Doak. After starting in the golf architecture world with Pete ...
Ep77: Kate Torgersen & Sandbelt Vegetation
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After an eventful week of golf twitter exchanges about tea tree and the sandbelt we have a timely interview to lead off this episode. Kate Torgersen f...
Ep76: Tara Iti - The best course in the southern hemisphere?
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two of the heavyweights of world golf are the stars for this episode – Royal Melbourne West and Tara Iti. Scott recently returned from a quick hit a...
Ep75: Royal Queensland
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The week before last afforded the chance for Scott, Matt and Dean from Seed to share a game on a sunny and breezy Saturday afternoon at Royal Queensla...
Ep74: Peninsula Kingswood (South)
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After visiting Peninsula Kingswood together late last year Scott & Matt finally get around to devoting an entire episode to this gem of a course. ...
Ep73: So... Is Seven Mile Beach any good?!
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A really special episode this time around, with the voices of five different golfers all fleshing out the experience of preview play over the eleven h...
Ep72: Ewan Porter
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt flying solo for this one, with special guest Ewan Porter discussing a range of topics, as Scott was racking up the birdie alongside Nick Mills on...
Ep71: Goals Review & General Golf Chat
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A casual chat for this episode – Scott and Matt discuss recent golf, a plan to build excitement in the lead-up to the Australian Open, and more. The...
Ep70: Listener Questions (Part 2)
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another longish episode where we wrap up the huge batch of listener questions forwarded to us recently. Membership issues, rankings, golf in Sydney, a...
Ep69: Listener Qs (Hanse at Barny, Ranking the Royals, Sydney gems, $600 to spend on the Mornington, and more)
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This latest edition of Australian Golf Passport podcast is an ever-popular Listener Questions episode. Thanks to all those who submitted via the Insta...
Ep68: Yarra Yarra
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back to devote an entire episode to Yarra Yarra – one of those Sandbelt courses that doesn’t quite get the love it deserves on occasions. ...
Ep67: Tom Mackenzie on rebuilding NSWGC & discovering Aussie golf
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Mackenzie from Mackenzie & Ebert is our guest for this episode, talking all things NSWGC redesign, plus the arm-wrestle between designing in t...
Ep66: Royal Sydney Is (Almost) Ready!
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fast turn around from last episode to this – with RoyalSydney about to publicly unveil their newly renovated Gil Hanse golf course. After a recent m...
Ep65: Recent Events
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode affords the chance to review loads of little topics on the Australian golf landscape - courses re-opening after works, Karl Vilips breakt...
Ep64: New South Wales GC renovation, Scott's instant reaction
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New South Wales GC is baaaaaack!Matt checks in with Scott after opening weekend at the newly-renovated NSWGC for a quick initial reaction to the chang...
Ep63: Golf Along The Murray River, with Brian Walshe
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An episode topic that has been consistently requested since we first started recording Australian Golf Passport – a deep dive into Golf Along The Mi...
Episode Sixty Two - Commonwealth deep dive, Aussie Open news, Fliers Club and Dean from Seed
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We could have taken the easy way out and made this two episodes to chip away at our goal of 26 for the year, but instead here's two and a half hours o...
Episode Sixty One - A big announcement
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've been working on something exciting, and we're pumped to share it with you. First cab off the rank for 2025 allows us the chance to formu...
Episode Sixty - 2024 Australian Golf Passport Awards
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our final episode for 2024 takes a look back at the year that was - with awards for a range of fantastic courses, great performances and favorite mo...
Episode Fifty Nine - Ross Flannigan, inc. Sandbelt Invitational wrap-up
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A massive Christmas holiday edition for you to take in over a long festive season car trip, or during a relaxing lie down in the sun over the Christma...
Episode Fifty Eight - A Ton of Listener Questions
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We thought we'd get on our bikes and up the rate at which we publish, as the finish line for 2024 nears. After having recorded a long episode in which...
Episode Fifty Seven - Save Moore Park GC's Jared Kendler, plus latest Metro/Huntingdale news
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Episode Fifty Six - Peninsula Kingswood (North) full post-mortem
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 cou...
Episode Fifty Five - Sandbelt trip wrap-up: PK & Commonwealth
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three days, five rounds, two course walks, 65,000 steps each. We're cooked. But before Scott gets on a plane home, we've got a quick recap of our roun...
Episode Fifty Four - Sandbelt golf trip day one: PK, Yarra, listener Qs
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 plent...
Episode Fifty Three - Chris Solomon
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode Fifty Two - Aussie golf media doyen Brendan James
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 land...
Episode Fifty One - Gil Hanse & Josh McFadden on Royal Sydney GC
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A thrill to speak with Josh McFadden and Gil Hanse of Hanse Golf Design. Both are visiting our country to complete renovation of the course at Royal S...
Episode Fifty - Metro/Huntingdale merger, Five Mile Beach update & other news
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 lik...
Episode Forty Nine - Architecture listener questions
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode Forty Eight - Why Does Golf Architecture Matter?
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode Forty Seven - How to win a club championship, with Warwick Dews
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We recap Scott's win in the 2024 New South Wales GC A-Reserve club championship final, joined for the discussion by his opponent's caddie, NSWGC head ...
Episode Forty Six - Steve Keipert & Australian Golf Digest 2024 Top 100
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Keipert, editor of Australian Golf Digest joins us to chat about the magazine's latest rankings edition - with the Top 100 list of Australia...
Ep45: Matt Mollica live from Augusta
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered what pure euphoria sounds like?Matt phoned in fresh from 12 hours walking the grounds of Augusta National to debrief on his day at The M...
Episode Forty Four - Playing The Masters, with Lukas Michel
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lukas Michel joins the pod for a second time to chat about playing in the 2020 Masters Tournament: what he learned about the course; favourite shots, ...
Episode Forty Three - Listener Qs + Matt is Masters-bound
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A quick catch-up before Matt's departure for the US to attend the Masters and play some all-world golf courses. We answer some listener questions,...
Episode Forty Two - Four word course reviews are back!
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Four-word course reviews are back! After an initial catch-up on some recent news in Aussie golf & the pursuit — not all of it successful — of th...
Episode Forty One - Mike DeVries & 7 Mile Beach
09 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A real treat to chat with esteemed golf course architect Mike DeVries. Boasting decades of experience in the industry, Mike is one of the ...
Episode Forty - Greg Chalmers
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A snippet of 1998 Australian Open winner Greg Chalmers was featured within our previous episode – a focus on Royal Adelaide. This episode of the pod...
Episode Thirty Nine - Royal Adelaide, With A Couple Of Lefties
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the finest courses in the land comes under the microscope today - with the venerable Royal Adelaide layout our focus. Details are fleshed out b...
Episode Thirty Eight - 2024 Goals
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Scott take a leaf out of the NoLayingUp playbook and map out some personal goals for the year ahead. Golf, health, personal development – a...
Episode Thirty Seven - Mike Clayton Returns
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We round out the calendar year in style – Mike Clayton returns to discuss all things golf, and give us a little look at Mike the man, not just Mike ...
Episode Thirty Six - 'Tis the season, Let's Get Blind!
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas is nearly upon us, so we decided to get into the festive spirit. A busy last few weeks on the domestic golf scene sees a full news chat a...
Episode Thirty Five - Australian Open Week Is Here!
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest week in the country for professional golf is upon us, and Scott & Matt take a look at the event, and the host courses – The Lakes a...
Episode Thirty Four - Barnbougle Revisited
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After having first visited the town of Bridport back in 2004 for a sneak preview round on Barnbougle Dunes, Matt recently made his first trip back the...
Episode Thirty Three - What next for golf in Moore Park?
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The New South Wales Premier Chris Minns yesterday announced that the busy and popular public golf course at Moore Park will be carved up to create mor...
Episode Thirty Two - Royal Melbourne (Composite)
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is it the best course in the world? Who can say. Royal Melbourne’s famed Composite layout has its moment in the Australian Golf Passport podcast sp...
Episode Thirty One - Royal Melbourne (East)
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of Australia’s finest layout, and one that is often over-looked by locals and overseas visitors alike. We’ve been looking forward to coverin...
Episode Thirty - Sandbelt Scandal & National Nonsense
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With a flurry of activity on the local golf scene, and one great question accidentally omitted from the recent mailbag episode, we call an emergency p...
Episode Twenty Nine - Listener Questions
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The second half of the recent batch of listener questions submitted a little while ago are all covered in this fun episode. Loads of really interes...
Episode Twenty Eight - Ben Hillard
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode grew up in Melbourne, and played golf in his youth, but his love of the game blossomed in early adulthood. His rise from pl...
Episode Twenty Seven - Listener Questions
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot on the heels of a tremendous time with Tron Carter we dive into a perennial favourite - listener questions. Thanks so much to so many of you for s...
Episode Twenty Six - Tron Carter
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A distinct privilege to spend some time talking with No Laying Up’s Tron Carter. A lover of all things Australian golf, Tron’s passion and knowl...
Episode Twenty Five - A Homesick Ran Morrissett
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ran Morrissett, the doyen of the online golf architecture community and founder of golfclubatlas.com is our special guest for this really enjoyable e...
Episode Twenty Four - The Lakes
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of Sydney’s finest courses and clubs has the spotlight for this edition of the pod, but there’s plenty of additional discussion in a spritely,...
Episode Twenty Three - RQ, Brooky & Chit Chat
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A mixed bag for episode 23, with a whole range of topics covered including upcoming events in several states, a new golf outlet in Melbourne, and tho...
Episode Twenty Two - Bob Harrison
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A real treat for this episode of the podcast – a chat with famed Australian golf course architect Bob Harrison. His design portfolio spans decade...
Episode Twenty One - Newcastle
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we drive two hours north of Sydney – to the memorable and enjoyable Newcastle golf club. A wide-ranging discussion addresses the cha...
Episode Twenty - Listener Questions
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of The Masters and the Easter holidays, we publish our longest episode yet. Over 100 minutes of discussion devoted to answering two dozen o...
Episode Nineteen - Lonsdale Links
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hot off a stellar hit and run mission to Victoria where Scott played 72 holes in a two day visit, we devote this episode to Lonsdale Links. Spoken of ...
Episode Eighteen - Todd & Joseph's Excellent Adventure
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We spend an hour chatting with Todd Ogborn and Joseph Kass, two golf professionals who visited Australia earlier in the year. Travelling to our shores...
Episode Seventeen - Hobart
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the back of Scott’s recent trip to Tasmania for a friend’s 40th birthday, we devote this episode to golf in and around Hobart, focusing on five...
Episode Sixteen - Eclectic
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This seemed like as good a time as any to hit a wide range of little topics that have been on the agenda over the last few months. This latest episode...
Episode Fifteen - Ellerston
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The fiercely private and highly ranked course is a veritable white whale for local golfers and many who venture to Australia for a once in a lifetime ...
Episode Fourteen - Bonnie Doon
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A somewhat unheralded course in Sydney gets the spotlight this episode. A darling of our hosts, Bonnie Doon is the result of years of toil by respecte...
Episode Thirteen - Mat Goggin and 7 Mile Beach
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off the new year with a bang, chatting to Mat Goggin, the man behind arguably the most hotly anticipated golf course opening of 2023. Designed...
Episode Twelve - Port Fairy
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A favourite among those who know it well, this gem of course on the south west coast of Victoria is given due recognition in our final episode for 202...
Episode Eleven - Listener Questions
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loads of questions from listeners around the globe on all manner of Aussie golf topics are covered in this episode. Discussion includes golf in NSW an...
Episode Ten - Victoria - with Lillie Callow and Matt Griffin
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the eve of the 2022 Australian Open, co-hosted by Victoria, we focus on this storied course and Club with two of their finest members. Lillie has p...
Episode Nine - Kingston Heath
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the nation’s golfing treasures is the focus for this episode. Kingston Heath is sharing host duties of the 2022 Australian Open with Victoria...
Episode Eight - Metropolitan - with Lukas Michel
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This edition starts off with another brief look at headlines of the day, including news of a sister course alongside 7 Mile Beach in Tasmania, the 202...
Episode Seven - Mornington Peninsula Part 2 - with Mike Clayton
29 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Australian golfing royalty makes a guest appearance this episode, with Mike Clayton sharing his views and experiences of golf on the Mornington Penins...
Episode Six - Mornington Peninsula Part 1 - The National GC
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode Six – Mornington Peninsula Part 1 This edition starts off with another brief news of the week segment which ranges from Australian history, ...
Episode Five - New South Wales
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A labour of love for Scott, as we cover loads of detail about one of the most iconic and dramatic courses in Australia – that of the New South Wales...
Episode Four - Barnbougle Dunes
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Pushing through cold symptoms during recording, Scott’s flu game is strong. He & Matt devote this episode to the crown jewels of the Apple Isle ...
Episode Three - Royal Melbourne (West)
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The boys kick things off with a brief review of some news and tidbits on the local golf scene, as well as answers to some listener questions following...
Episode Two - Setting The Scene
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A timeline of Australian golf seems a good matter to address prior to diving into details on specific courses in later episodes. Travel logistic...
Episode One - Introduction
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this premiere episode hosts Scott Warren & Matt Mollica introduce themselves, discuss the genesis of the podcast, and outline the format for th...