Settlers Run - Victoria - Australia

Settlers Run Golf & Country Club officially opened in 2007 and it's the latest course in the Cranbourne area which is at the centre of a 500-home residential estate that Greg Norman’s golf and property company helped to establish just outside the city of Melbourne.

On a triangular shaped site, the course’s generous fairways weave in and out of a substantial housing development that (incredibly) somehow manages to lie pretty unobtrusively in the background, divorced from the golfing action.

Some of the holes – particularly on the front nine – have significant elevation changes and the par five 9th is already a firm favourite with a downhill drive followed by a long uphill second (and probably third) shot to a well protected green.

There are only three par three holes on the card, each of which plays to a different position on the compass. The best of this trio is probably the shortest, the 165-yard 11th, and its green is framed to the right by tall pine trees, with an enormous bunker complex protecting the left side of the putting surface.