bit.ly/4mNvIOd. On Rory, and in contrast to last week, greens with fire and an appreciative crowd.

An admission: am having trouble suppressing giggles at the earnestness (and length) of Golf Channel’s Pre-Ryder coverage. So over the top it is almost reaching Monty Python sketch levels 😃

Hobart. Seven Mile Beach. Opening December. 10 green- a short 4 to the beach and 15 green - a reachable par 5. Blind second if you drive to the right.

An oldie….but topical 👇 golfdigestme.com/how-pole-vau...

Indigenous heathland and coastal manna gums - and a non-indigenous eucalyptus after this week’s high winds in Melbourne. The flora that belongs is always best Victoria GC on the Melbourne sandbelt.

@mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social: "There are 2 sorts of par3 - those where the pin position completely changes the shot you hit and those (usually with a small green) where no matter the pin position, you hit the same shot. Perdu at The Addington is an example of the former, the great 13th the latter."

#holesthatarentholes St Andrews Beach, Victoria, Australia 2nd tee to 7th green 📷: @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

Huggy on the Walker Cup.

Grassing is underway on Stage 2 of our Masterplan for Royal Perth in WA in partnership with KruseGolf. This phase includes 7 new greens and adjoining tees plus a large Himalayas putting green. All shaping by @lukasmichel.bsky.social with oversight from @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social and Harley Kruse.

In Defense Of Cypress Point's 18th open.substack.com/pub/quadrila...

MacKenzie's Careful Embrace Of Cypress Point's Legendary 16th open.substack.com/pub/quadrila...

The Sandbelt isn’t always sand. Yarra Yarra GC - the new practice pitching/bunker green. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

Memo for Scottish Golf (2): this morning at the U.S. Amateur there will be a 20-man for 17 spots play-off to get into match play. It’s what national championships do. What they do not do is have pathetic card count backs to decide who progresses and who does not. Just saying 🙄

Is Elanora the Fontainebleau of Sydney or Fontainebleau the Elanora of Paris? The rocky escarpment in the middle of the course has great similarities with our Parisian client 10,000 miles away. Harley Kruse explains how more native vegetation will in time make the Sydney sandstone more visible.

@mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social with contractor Ben Burke at Yarra Yarra GC. We are executing our partner Harley Kruse's plan to revegetate some key areas with indigenous species such as stipa, rice flower and trigger plant.

CDP and KruseGolf have been jointly appointed consulting course architect to Elanora Country Club, NSW, Australia. @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social: "We are delighted to be working at Elanora which I believe to be New South Wales's best golfing property north of the Sydney Harbour Bridge."

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www.golf.org.au/mike-clayton.... On Ian B-F Cam Smith and the unknowable. And the difference between Peter Thomson and Greg Norman.

t.co/jqg4P0tiJe. On Grace Kim and three of the finest half dozen shots hit by an Australian on the final hole of a major championship

The latest edition of the UK's National Club Golfer / Golf World. A piece on 7 Mile Beach by its co-designer, @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social.

images.ctfassets.net/3urhge2ecl20... On the new Royal Sydney and its 18th hole now being “able to hold its head up in polite society” (A.W Tillinghast)?

Included in Golf World's new article on its ranking of GB&I's links courses is this essay by our own @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social.

t.co/1MFJb0W9sB On the US Open - with a tennis comparison from John Fitzgerald thrown in.

www.golf.org.au/clayton-on-t.... On Oakmont. A high bar to match Rory v History at Augusta and Alcaraz v Sinner in Paris.

The mystery is isolating one hole from another. I don’t get it. Here at Woodlands (Melb Sandbelt) instead of looking into a wall of rubbish ti-tree left of the par 5,15th you now see through to the 13th hole. And vice -versa.

A great Australian short 4 almost no one talks about. Curlewis 12 (old 3) No hole in the country uses a boundary better (down the left) as a hazard and the green is one of Vern Morcom’s best.

Seven Mile Beach. 17. Looking good and getting closer.

The Aussies are going well at the Scottish's Men's Amateur Championship at North Berwick: followed around Billy Dowling (first round leader), Kayun Mudadana (current leader), and Max Moring @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

14th hole with the City of London behind. The Addington, Surrey, England. Designed by JF Abercromby & HS Colt. Restored by Messrs Clayton, DeVries & Pont. @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social @ivgd1.bsky.social 📷: Will Watt

A brief glance at the Senior PGA leaderboard made me smile. Just the one American in the top-ten. Which hints at how obnoxious is the near closed-shop policy of the Champions Tour. How is that even legal? 🤷‍♂️

Frank and Hendrik presented our Draft Course Plan and proposed renovations to the practice facilities to Royal Dublin's members at a town hall event last night. @ivgd1.bsky.social @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

Seven Mile Beach's 14th awaits the arrival of golfers. 📷: Anthony Toogood @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social

insightful as always Mike with some good insights from @geoffshac.bsky.social as well. Portrush would be a lovely walk, and I assume Oakmont as well. The PGA Championship continues to choose venues that cement its place at the bottom of the 4 majors.

Sometimes it's worth remembering where you started. @lukasmichel.bsky.social's video with @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social was filmed in 2021. Preview play begins at Seven Mile Beach on Thursday. For more information, please consult the club's social media feeds.

t.co/xJKXKlk2Rh. In the PGA Championship. 7600y courses and the madness of the modern golf ball.

Frank Pont in Seoul with the great So Yeon Ryu. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/the-... The Melbourne Sandbelt. On the path forward post the restoration/renovation era beginning with Kingston Heath in the early 80s and Victoria in the mid 1990s.

Congratulations to our clients The Addington GC and Wallasey GC, the two largest risers in the new top100courses.com England rankings.

Two more views of the same.

www.golf.org.au/mike-clayton... On the best player post-Tiger and an inexplicable 11 year wait for the Grand Slam. Or maybe not so inexplicable given the pitch into Rae's Creek and the 72nd hole wedge flared into the bunker. Quail Hollow and a home game at Portrush await. Oakmont too.

Played all 18 at Seven Mile Beach yesterday with Goggy, Dave McKenzie and Steph Bunque. It’s getting there - The 13th - short 4. 14 Down the hill into the dunes. Par 3. And 3 - the long 5 swinging right across the top of the property. @claytondevriespont.bsky.social

@mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social's preview of this week's Masters... www.golf.org.au/clayton-on-t...

Ben Crenshaw..: on his first Sports Illustrated cover in 1974… on Dan Jenkins and Herbert Warren Wind… winning the Masters twice… and going to Augusta next week for the 54th straight year. www.si.com/golf/ben-cre...

Holes That Aren't Holes. @mikeclaytongolf.bsky.social The Addington. Back of the new practice ground to 18th green. 135 yards.

For fans of very silly golf the Hero Indian Open is currently a must-watch 😃

Par 3 17th at Woodlands. 160y. A great example of a small green making for a demanding short iron.

Last year, we began the rationalisation of the bunkering at Yering Meadows in Victoria in accordance with the plan devised in partnership with KruseGolf. Shaped by @lukasmichel.bsky.social, we are now starting to rebuild those that are to remain.

A delightful chat between two long time golf pals.