“GOLF IS A BETTER GAME WHEN YOU ARE PLAYING WITH YOUR MATES. I APPRECIATE IT MORE NOW...”

We’ve all been experiencing strange times over the last three months. But not being able to play golf for a while and living almost exclusively at home has been especially odd for a seasoned traveller like me.

I actually just beat the lockdown regulations when I flew home from New Zealand, where I had been playing in the Tara Iti member-guest. It’s an incredible course, by the way. I’d heard so many wonderful things about it before I went, but Tom Doak’s design exceeded even my most elevated expectations. It’s a legitimately great links course built on pure sand.

Anyway, I arrived back in Melbourne 12-hours before Australia’s 14-day quarantine rules came into effect. So I was lucky. It wasn’t long before golf tournaments