Te Arai Links at first light, the fairways running down through the dunes to the Pacific

Building brands & creating content for the world's greatest golf destinations.

We work on landmark projects and create long-term partnerships through our deep understanding and passion for golf.

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Golf is the world's greatest game. Our goal is to present it with the reverence it deserves.

We take our lead from the great architects, who are as much philosophers and custodians of the game as designers. We are never flippant about the work, but never forget that golf is meant to be fun.

We protect and elevate the brands we work with, fiercely, and we know that saying no matters as much as saying yes. Sometimes it's what you don't say that says it all.

Clients

  • Royal Melbourne Golf Club
  • Kingston Heath Golf Club
  • Royal Queensland Golf Club
  • The National Golf Club
  • Te Arai Links
  • The Grange Golf Club
  • The Melbourne Sandbelt Group
  • The Barwon Heads Golf Club
  • Peninsula Kingswood
  • Sorrento Golf Club
  • Barnbougle
  • Kauri Cliffs
  • Lonsdale Links
  • St Andrews Beach
  • Golf the Bellarine
  • Woodlands Golf Club
  • 7 Mile Beach
  • SHIFT Magazine
  • No Laying Up
  • OCM Golf
Looking straight down on a Te Arai fairway winding through open sand and pines

What we make

From the ground up.

Every place has its own lie of the land. We read it first, then build everything from it.

We read the market as closely as we read the course.

Brand

More and more of our work is the brand itself: the marks, the words and the guides that carry a club for a generation.

The Royal Queensland Golf Club lockup The Knot in weathered steel on a sandstone wallThe Knot's figure of eight embroidered on a cream capThe Knot on a glass of beer at the course

Royal Queensland Golf Club

A master brand on the river, and a new course called The Knot.

We drew the club's master brand together into one guide, then named the new short course and made its brand, The Knot · Golf & Social, from the river's own history: the steamships, the flying boats, the figure of eight.

  • Master brand
  • Brand guides
  • Naming
  • Launch film
The Long Island monogram Long Island from the air in evening lightThe Long Island monogram on ocean blueA Long Island fairway

The National Golf Club

Long Island, a course with a brand of its own.

A full rebrand and brand extension for The National's fourth course: the monogram, the marks for its farm, its track and its first course, and the film that launched it.

  • Brand extension
  • Identity
  • Marks
  • Launch film
The Woodlands monogram A gum backlit at sunrise on a Woodlands fairwayWoodlands bunkers under a willow in the evening

Woodlands Golf Club

A Sandbelt original, told as it is.

A brand for Woodlands built on what the club is rather than what it is not: the strategy, the monogram and the colours, the voice, and the guide the club works from.

  • Brand strategy
  • Identity
  • Voice
  • Brand guide

Case Studies

A Royal Melbourne bunker seen from directly above, its lips ragged against the fairway

Royal Melbourne Golf Club01

Thirty six holes, one clear voice.

We refined the club's mark and wrote the guidelines that keep it, then photographed and filmed both courses, the West and the East, hole by hole.

The website carries the whole round on a single screen, with the club's history and its championships beside it.

  • Brand strategy
  • Identity
  • Brand guidelines
  • Photography
  • Film
  • Website

Working with Contours Agency to develop a new website and complete a brand refresh has been a lot of fun. We are proud of the end result and have received wonderful feedback from our Members and guests.

Ben JarvisDirector of Golf, The Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Kingston Heath Golf Club02

A website for a course the world is watching.

Kingston Heath's website is ours, designed and built with the club and set in its own typefaces, with the course film running through it.

And we photograph the course, and the people who keep it.

  • Website
  • Film
  • Photography
Sprinklers backlit at dawn over the dunes of The National's Gunnamatta course

The National Golf Club03

Three courses on the coast, and a fourth on the way.

We made The National's website and photograph and film its courses on the Mornington Peninsula, from the sprinklers at dawn to the annual report.

As OCM Golf reshapes Long Island, we are telling it as it happens: the routings, the invitational, the walks with the architects and the press who come to see it.

  • Website
  • Photography
  • Film
  • Media packs

Will exceeded the Club's expectations on delivering a world class website with the content being beyond stunning.

Brett NelsonOperations Manager, The National Golf Club
Te Arai Links from the air, fairways between the dunes and the long Pacific beach

Te Arai Links04

First light on the Northland coast.

Two shoots at Te Arai, from the ground and from the air, made around the light: dawn on the dunes, the Pacific beside every hole, the pines going black at dusk.

  • Photography
  • Aerial
The Barwon Heads clubhouse above the eighteenth green in evening light

The Barwon Heads Golf Club05

All eighteen, flown.

Eighteen holes in the dunes between the Barwon River and Bass Strait, flown one at a time and laid on a map of the course, on the club's own address.

And the links photographed from the ground and the air, for the club to use as its own.

  • Course tour
  • Flyovers
  • Photography

Film

Made to be watched to the end.

Features, course walks, masterplans and launches, shot and cut by the same people.

Photography

Waiting for the light.

Knowing what makes a hole, when the light will reach it, and having the patience to wait for it. In Australia, New Zealand, Britain and America.

Capabilities

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Brand

Considered identities for clubs with a long history and a longer future. Always thoughtful, never trendy.

Strategy and positioningIdentityNamingBrand guidesMerchandise and print
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Websites

Sites as good to look at as the course, quick on a phone in the car park, and easy for the club to keep.

Design and buildCourse and hole guidesCourse toursMembership journeysEditing by the club
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Film

Purposeful flight paths that show the architect's intent, and stories told by the people who know them.

Club and course featuresHole by hole flyoversMasterplan filmsLaunches and eventsInterviews
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Photography

Patient work on the ground and in the air, graded and delivered ready to use.

Course and aerialClubhouse and interiorsMembers and eventsConstruction and worksMedia packs

To open your email and click on the video today and watch the images of Barwon Heads that you have created was unbelievable. Outstanding job!

Anthony Masters General Manager, The Barwon Heads Golf Club

Will and his team have done an incredible job bringing together the branding, website, and design for our new concept, Golf the Bellarine. They went above and beyond.

Aly Lamb Golf the Bellarine

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We work with clubs that understand the long game.

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