Australian Golf Passport

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 ab

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 ho

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 1

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

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 Bry

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

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 K

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

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 monolo

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

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

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 competit

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 J

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 pr

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 t

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 episod

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 t

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. Af

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

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