ACT

The Australian Capital Territory, or ACT as it’s more commonly called, is an enclave of less than a thousand square miles that lies within the state of New South Wales in the south east of Australia. The state capital Canberra is also the seat of government for the nation and it celebrated the centenary of its foundation in 2013.

There are ten clubs in ACT affiliated to the 24-club ACT Monaro District Golf Association which in turn is one of twenty Men’s Country Districts in membership of Golf NSW. Whilst the John Harris-designed Royal Canberra (Westbourne) layout stands head and shoulders above all the other courses in ACT, that’s not to say the others should be easily dismissed.

For instance, the old Federal course at Red Hill (dating back to 1933) has many admirers, as do a couple of mid-1990s designs at Gungahlin Lakes and Gold Creek.

Our ACT Rankings were last updated in February 2019. Click the link to read the story.

Top 100 Golf Courses - ACT

Royal Canberra (Westbourne)

1^st

Designed by Commander John Harris, the Westbourne course at Royal Canberra is delightfully routed through the Westbourne Woods arboretum.

Federal

2^nd

Founded in 1933, Federal Golf Club started out with a 9-hole layout (playing to sand greens), but it took another 20 years before eighteen grass greens became established...

Yowani

3^rd

Located less than a ten-minute drive north of downtown Canberra, the course at Yowani Country Club is a late 1950s James Herd Scott design, with narrow tree-lined fairways routed around a couple of sparkling lakes.

Gold Creek

4^th

The course at Gold Creek Country Club hosted the 1996 Australian PGA Seniors shortly after it opened and the winner of that particular tournament is still fondly remembered at the club because Trevinos, the Bistro, is named in his honour.

Queanbeyan

5^th

Records suggest that golf was first played in the Queanbeyan area in 1896, but the course in play today at Queanbeyan Golf Club is an early 20th century “home grown” creation which has gone from strength to strength in recent times, hosting numerous territory tournaments.

Cariló

Host venue to the Abierto de Cariló tournament on Argentina’s TPG Tour between 1983 and 2011, the course at Cariló Golf Club is a tale of two halves. Tomas Sanderson’s front nine opened in 1976 with smaller greens and the newer second nine debuted with more generous putting surfaces.