Elite Traveler January-February 2016

INSPIRE GOLFING MELBOURNE

The green, green grass of Melbourne

Australia takes its sports very seriously: cricket at the Gabba; theWallabies national rugby union team; the AustralianOpen tennis tournament; not tomention their powerful Olympic swimmers, including the mighty Ian "Thorpedo" Thorpe. But can Australia establish itself as a world capital of golf too? Minty Clinch heads to the championship golf courses of Melbourne to find out…

Right: View from the lightning-fast greens of Kingston Heath