Matt Cleary has been twice nominated for "Best Coverage of Sport by an Individual - Print Media" by the Australian Sports Commission; 

He was awarded Best Travel Feature in 2015 by the Australian Golf Media Association;  

He is a contributor to: The Guardian; Inside Sport; The Robb Report; Rugby League Week (RIP); Big League; The Roar; Inside Cricket; Jetstar's in-flight; Golf Australia; Golf Digest; NRL.com; Inside Rugby; Sydney Morning Herald; Bleacher Report; Australian Financial Review; Inside Golf; Luxury Travel, and several others;

He once spent four months driving 25,000 kilometres around Australia, for a 12-issue series of stories in Golf Digest about playing golf on a full lap of Australia;

He is owner-operator of golf travel company MCG Tours;

He is author of "A Short History of Golf" (foreword by Greg Norman); 

He wrote a live blog for The Guardian about Jarryd Hayne's first game for San Francisco 49ers which became a viral phenom.