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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.
Episodes
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Ep106: Dr. Alister MacKenzie - Part 1
A special one for our AGP audience this time around. Commemorating perhaps the most important moment for the game of golf in Australia. This edition of the podcast is the first of three dedicated to the life and times of Dr. Alister MacKenzie. Published to coincide with the centenary of his...
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Ep105: Barwon Heads, an English links on the Bellarine Peninsula
A few little snippets to discuss before we focus on the headline act for this episode. Scott and Matt discuss the imminent opening of some new holes at Newcastle Golf Club, with the work by Scott Champion and Bob Harrison looking really good. Lovedale Farm comes in for some discussion –...
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Ep104: Golf doesn't always love you back, with Mark Panopoulos
This week's episode is a chat between Scott and our guest Mark Panopoulos. We cover his pursuit to play every golf course in Australia - inspired by an epiphany in Kakadu National Park, sand greens golf, his upbringing on the NSW South Coast and life as a professional golfer in Australia....
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Ep103: From Hickories to Social Media
A few topics covered on this episode – ranging from Royal Park Golf Course, social media activity of golf clubs, and hickory golf. Firstly we touch on the community consultation process and impending change in the Royal Park precinct of Melbourne, which may have ramifications for the golf course....
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Ep102: Mic Henderson
A long-awaited chat with an under the radar figure in golfarchitecture in Australia. And a sensational, humble guy on top of that! Mic spends an hour with us, chatting about his start in the design and construction business, and the many projects he’s been a part of over the last two decades.…
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Ep101: Clowns (a wrap-up of our All-Australian 18s)
A review of the All-Australian Composite Courses we unveiled in Episode 100. We tackle audience feedback, some reflections on each of our courses two weeks on and some holes that were unlucky to miss out. We mull over the process of compiling such a course and touch on a range of issues related…
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Ep100! Naming our All-Australian Composite Courses
One hundred episodes! We've come a long way from that nervous first recording in August 2022. We have been looking forward for a while to selecting our ultimate Aussie 18s, and it felt like the right fit for this milestone recording. One hole per course and it had to slot in on our All-Australian...
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Ep99: Charlie Mercer from The Yardage Book Podcast
Not a nervous single nudged to mid on as we near the century – the 99th episode of AGP podcast is a great chat with Charlie Mercer – one of New Zealand’s finest, and host of The Yardage Book Podcast. Charlie recently visited Australia and played some of our best courses. We talk about his views…
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Ep98: Listener Questions (dream renovations, Aussie Open in Hobart, changes to clubland and more)
Back to the mailbag to answer listener questions. Almost two hours' worth, ranging from travel advice, hot takes, favourites and some wild hypotheticals. Shoutout to Bryson, you're probably fine company on the golf course but we're just not that fussed to find out. Our Podcast is published with...
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Ep97: Ocean Dunes + Aussie Open is headed to Adelaide
Part 2 of our recap of our recent trip to King Island focuses on Ocean Dunes. OD was our first round of the trip and made an enormous impression. We go chapter and verse on 1-18, answer some listener questions about the course and there's inevitable comparisons to Cape Wickham. But first, a chat...
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Ep96: Cape Wickham (finally!)
AGP finally touched down on King Island, with a group of mates in tow, all very excited to see the golf on offer. This episode will be the first of a couple devoted to King Island, and one where we principally discuss the course at Cape Wickham. The turf, location, the 18th green, the wind, sets…
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Ep95: Developments, departures, green jackets & red flags
A fair bit happening in Aussie golf this week, so Matt and Scott caught up for a quick trip through recent announcements and happenings: Rory is returning to the Aussie Open with the green jacket still in his possession. The Aussie PGA is headed to The Lakes and Bryson could be the drawcard (?!)....
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Ep94: St Andrews Beach, with Mike Clayton
We invited Clayts on to help us profile St Andrews Beach, so naturally the episode opens with a discussion about 1970s house prices, closes with a brilliant Clayts monologue about molded grip trainer clubs and namechecks at least 20 Aussie courses along the journey! Early in the life of this pod,...
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Ep93: Cathedral
One of Matt’s aims for 2026 was realised last week when he finally locked eyes on Cathedral Golf Club. We start the episode with a wide-ranging preliminary chat touching on a range of topics. The cost of public golf in the Hunter Valley, Church pew bunkers at Curlewis, the recent series of Womens...
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Ep92: Women's Australian Open at Kooyonga
The Women’s Australian Open is being held at Kooyonga this week, and is co-sanctioned by the LET. The field is strong and hopefully we see a return of the buzz created by year on year staging of the Women’s Australian Open as a stand alone event in late summer in Adelaide. We take a look at the...
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Ep91: Lukas Michel has been busy
A long overdue catch-up with friend of the pod Lukas Michel, who has spent the past three years building his career in golf design while also keeping his hand in competitive amateur golf. From helping to build 7 Mile Beach to working on a couple of course's in people's backyards, and testing his...
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Ep90: 36 holes at the new Royal Sydney, Scott's reaction
We both walked the new Royal Sydney course last year and were high on the incredible Gil Hanse renovation, but did Scott's thoughts change after two rounds there during January? We put this podcast together with thanks to Matt Burns and his staff at Angus And Grace Go Golfing. Check their insta...
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Ep89: Rankings Listener Qs & debrief
We are joined by stats guru Assoc Prof Dr Davis McCarthy for this episode as we do a post-mortem on the inaugural Australian Golf Passport rankings. We debrief on the process of releasing our own rankings list and tackle almost two hours of listener questions on the rankings, the panel and the...
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Ep88: 2026 - Here We Go!
We get the New Year going with a bang, reviewing the 2025 goals, handing out the now annual Australian Golf Passport awards, and setting some goals for 2026. With a nod to the guys at NoLayingUp, the annual goals episode has become a regular for us, and we hope it motivates you all to set your...
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Ep87: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses - Part 3
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 the previous episode, we resume the count at number 11 and work steadily to number 1. Scott’s recording on the road on summer holidays, hot…
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Ep86: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses - Part 2
We (slowly) approach the pointy end of the inaugural Australian Golf Passport Top 50 Australian Golf Course Rankings, with the intention of working from #25 all the way to #1. HOWEVA, things stretched on as they sometimes do, and we got to #12 before deciding to call an end to the day’s play. We...
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Ep85: Ranking Australia's Top 50 Courses - Part 1
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 Golf Course Rankings. After having assembled a panel, and collating ballots we’ve had a genius crunch the numbers (s/o Dr Davis McCarthy!) in order to...
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Ep84: Simon Holt, World Top 100 panel chair
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 sons, Simon Holt. Simon’s seen all there is to see in world golf. We discuss architecture, rankings, modern green fees, Australian golf and a ton more....
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Ep 83: Aussie Open mojo restored
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 superb supporting cast of players & a remarkable 72nd hole all came together to breathe life back into the tournament and show it the way forward.…
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Ep82: 7 Mile Beach
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 week – and the course did not disappoint. A glorious layout full of high calibre holes, fantastic green complexes and so much fun, engaging, thrilling...
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Ep81: First look at Kangaroo Island, new World Top 100, Vic GC vs Cheltenham & Dean from Seed
A mixed bag of interesting topics this week: Footage of the fully-grassed course at The Cliffs at Kangaroo Island emerged recently and warranted discussion. New World Top 100 rankings from Golf Magazine are imminent and the Aussie candidates come in for attention. Some argy bargy surrounding...
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Ep80: Tom de Jersey
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 based TPI certified physiotherapist. He talks with us about strength, range, training for golf, physical limitations to the golf swing, and how best to...
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Ep79: Listener Questions (Tassie green fees, Kangaroo Island mayo, best cheap courses & more)
Listener questions episodes have always been among our most popular, and we're back with 30 questions from our audience: ranging from the green fees at new destination courses to protecting classic architecture, cheap ways to improve country courses, Mt Lawley's WA Open close-up all the way to…
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Ep78: Tom Doak
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 & Alice Dye, Tom founded Renaissance Golf Design decades ago and has travelled the world building some of the finest courses in the game. We speak with...
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Ep77: Kate Torgersen & Sandbelt Vegetation
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 from Environmental Golf Solutions joins us to talk about her career in golf. Starting with her time in turf management, then the switch to flora. We...
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Ep76: Tara Iti - The best course in the southern hemisphere?
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 and run trip to Tara Iti and played both courses at Te Arai as well. The rounds at Tara Iti had him thinking it might even surpass the famed West…
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Ep75: Royal Queensland
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 Queensland. Before and after the game several RQ members proudly hosted a tour of the land east of the Gateway Bridge, describing the imminent development…
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Ep74: Peninsula Kingswood (South)
After visiting Peninsula Kingswood together late last year Scott & Matt finally get around to devoting an entire episode to this gem of a course. There’s the inevitable comparisons drawn between South and it’s sibling course, but so much more too. Discussion of the many strengths of the course…
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Ep73: So... Is Seven Mile Beach any good?!
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 holes currently open at the new Mike DeVries and Mike Clayton Seven Mile Beach course in Hobart. Will Kay, Will Watt, Sam MacDonald, Jared Kendler…
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Ep72: Ewan Porter
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 his beloved NSW GC at the time of recording. Our anchor will be back for the next episode – which we’re really excited about. More to come on that...
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Ep71: Goals Review & General Golf Chat
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 goals outlined at the start of the year also come in for a mid-season review. Tons of good stuff covered. We hope you enjoy the chat, and as always...
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Ep70: Listener Questions (Part 2)
Another longish episode where we wrap up the huge batch of listener questions forwarded to us recently. Membership issues, rankings, golf in Sydney, architecture, course comparisons, and so much more. A really interesting and varied grab bag of subjects to ponder. Thanks again to all those who...
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Ep69: Listener Qs (Hanse at Barny, Ranking the Royals, Sydney gems, $600 to spend on the Mornington, and more)
This latest edition of Australian Golf Passport podcast is an ever-popular Listener Questions episode. Thanks to all those who submitted via the Insta story call-out. Almost 5 dozen questions will form hours of discussion for this episode and the next! We got to 28 of them in this two-hour…
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Ep68: Yarra Yarra
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. We start the episode with a fast review of Scott’s recent Canberra visit, including his quick lap around Royal Canbera. For those keen to visit Royal...
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Ep67: Tom Mackenzie on rebuilding NSWGC & discovering Aussie golf
Tom Mackenzie from Mackenzie & Ebert is our guest for this episode, talking all things NSWGC redesign, plus the arm-wrestle between designing in the dirt and having a plan to work to, the tension between form and function, tricks for making tight sections of property feel spacious and why he…
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Ep66: Royal Sydney Is (Almost) Ready!
Fast turn around from last episode to this – with RoyalSydney about to publicly unveil their newly renovated Gil Hanse golf course. After a recent multi-hour walk around the property with super Adam Marchant, Scott shares his views on the design, and the highlights of the reworked layout.…
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Ep65: Recent Events
This episode affords the chance to review loads of little topics on the Australian golf landscape - courses re-opening after works, Karl Vilips breakthrough win, Matt's quick jaunt to Tara Iti, activities of panelists on the AGP Top 50 panel, and more of Scott's ball testing. Metro, The Lakes…
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Ep64: New South Wales GC renovation, Scott's instant reaction
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 changes. Spoiler: he enjoyed himself. Seed Golf has provided an introductory 20% off for listeners to Australian Golf Passport. Head to...
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Ep63: Golf Along The Murray River, with Brian Walshe
An episode topic that has been consistently requested since we first started recording Australian Golf Passport – a deep dive into Golf Along The Might River Murray. We’re joined by Brian Walshe – great friend of the pod, and a passionate golfer who has planned & enjoyed dozens of Murray River…
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Episode Sixty Two - Commonwealth deep dive, Aussie Open news, Fliers Club and Dean from Seed
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 of listening spanning four topics. We open with a chat about sanity prevailing at Sandringham with the men's and women's Aussie Opens to be…
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Episode Sixty One - A big announcement
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 formulate some new goals for the coming 12 months and reflect on the previous year. This is an enjoyable and rewarding process - shamelessly based on the famous...
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Episode Sixty - 2024 Australian Golf Passport Awards
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 moments of the year. Superintendents, pro shops, renovated courses and playing partners all come in for a little love and affection. We'd love to hear...
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Episode Fifty Nine - Ross Flannigan, inc. Sandbelt Invitational wrap-up
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 Christmas break. This episode starts with a little rundown on the recently completed Sandbelt Invitational to kick things off before sinking our teeth into...
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Episode Fifty Eight - A Ton of Listener Questions
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 we quickly review the goals for the year, this episode features heaps of responses to a great range of listener questions. During the edit process…
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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 and the plan that the golf community is hoping will be embraced by the NSW...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
HOSTED BY
Scott Warren & Matthew Mollica
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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...
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