Victoria

Since the year 2010, Golf Victoria has represented female and male golfers who belong to more than 400 clubs throughout the state, following the merger between Golf Victoria with the Victorian Golf Association (formed in 1902) and the Victorian Ladies Golf Union (founded in 1906). The governing body hosts a number of competitions throughout the year for women, men golfers of all ages, including junior and senior. The best of Australian courses is located in Victoria and a lot of them are situated on the renowned Melbourne Sandbelt. Old favourites from the 1930s and 1920s like Royal Melbourne (West) and (East), Kingston Heath and Commonwealth fight for highest positions in the rankings against modern tracks along the Mornington Peninsula like Greg Norman's National (Moonah) and Tom Doak's St Andrews Beach.

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  1. The West course at Royal Melbourne Golf Club is generally acknowledged as the best course in Australia and one of Doctor Alister MacKenzie's finest designs.

  2. Kingston Heath Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Kingston Heath Golf Club pushes Royal Melbourne – and in some opinions exceeds it – as the premier course in Australian golf.

  3. There's fantastic variety on the Peninsula Kingswood North course - good elevation changes, interesting turns and irregular greens and recent renovations have elevated the course to a completely new level.

  4. There is clearly something about Victoria Golf Club that renders it even better than the sum of its very impressive parts.

  5. While it does not quite offer the grand theatre of the West, Royal Melbourne's East is still a fantastic golfing experience and holds its own versus all other courses in the Melbourne area.

  6. Right from the start the vistas are spectacular at The National Golf Club's Gunnamatta layout (formerly the Ocean course), with wonderful views over Bass Strait and most of the peninsula’s linksland.

  7. The Metropolitan Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Seven Australian Opens, five Australian PGAs and ten other professional tournaments have been hosted at the Metropolitan Golf Club.

  8. The Mornington Peninsula could easily be one long stretch of golf holes and it must have been a challenge for the architects to decide on their routing plan for The National Golf Club's Moonah course.

  9. St Andrews Beach Golf Course

    Victoria, Australia

    St Andrews Beach was Tom Doak’s first Australian mainland ensemble and his collaboration with former European Tour player turned golf course designer Mike Clayton opened for play in 2004 to a considerably loud fanfare of trumpets.

  10. The National Golf Club (Old)

    Victoria, Australia

    The Old was naturally the first course to be laid out here at The National Golf Club. The Old was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. in 1988 and its set on undulating slightly hilly ground which allows for stunning coastal views.

  11. Peninsula Kingswood (South)

    Victoria, Australia

    The atmosphere is fresh and rustic at The Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club and the courses are set at a little elevation so the sea can be spotted from a few points.

  12. Woodlands Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Although not as well known internationally as Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath or Victoria, nearby Woodlands Golf Club is one of the great charms of the Sandbelt courses.

  13. Cathedral Lodge Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Cathedral Lodge Golf Club was developed by investment banker and former Essendon Football Club President David Evans as a high-end private facility with an exclusive membership of fewer than two hundred golfers.

  14. The accent is very much on novelty and variation at the Dunes Golf Links, so the golfer will be asked to perform many direction changes, cope with side hill lies and fire to hill top greens.

  15. Yarra Yarra Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Unlike most of its peers in the Sandbelt, at Yarra Yarra Golf Club there is a distinct shift in scene and strategy between the two nines.

  16. Barwon Heads Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Barwon Heads Golf Club was founded in 1907 in Geelong and was initially a nine-hole links on land north of the village of Barwon Heads.

  17. Commonwealth Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Commonwealth Golf Club is a close neighbour of The Metropolitan and Yarra Yarra Golf Clubs, the three forming private golfing oases in modern Melbourne’s southward suburbs.

  18. 13th Beach Golf (Beach)

    Victoria, Australia

    The Beach course at 13th Beach Golf Links is as accomplished an offering as Tony Cashmore’s previous work at The Dunes, across the water near Portsea.

  19. Lonsdale Links

    Victoria, Australia

    At the end of 2020, Lonsdale Links re-opened after an extensive re-design by OCM, the design company of Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashly Mead. Five new holes were added on new land to the southwest of the old course, with a new clubhouse built close to where the old 1st green once was.

  20. Moonah Links (Legends)

    Victoria, Australia

    The Legends course at Moonah Links may be more forgiving than its neighbour but it still presents a stiff test to golfers of all abilities.

  21. Port Fairy Golf Links

    Victoria, Australia

    Port Fairy Golf Links co-hosts (along with nearby Warrnambool Golf Club) a very popular annual 36-hole amateur championship, the Shipwreck Coast Golf Classic...

  22. Portsea Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Portsea Golf Club is a charming, historic, local golf club near the sea. Although short by modern championship standards, the visitor will enjoy a full and testing experience.

  23. Moonah Links Resort (Open)

    Victoria, Australia

    Home to Golf Australia (formerly the AGU), the Open at Moonah Links is a championship course built and prepared for national competition...

  24. Spring Valley Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Spring Valley Golf Club is situated in the centre of the Melbourne sandbelt, but this course doesn’t quite have the same rolling topography of other, higher ranked courses in the area...

  25. Huntingdale Gold Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Where Huntingdale Golf Club has really made its mark on the Australian golf scene is its annual hosting of the Australian Masters.

  26. National (Long Island)

    Victoria, Australia

    Located on the southern edge of the Melbourne Sandbelt at the gateway to the scenic Mornington Peninsula, Long Island Country Club is one of Victoria’s hidden gems...

  27. 13th Beach (Creek)

    Victoria, Australia

    The Creek course at 13th Beach Golf Links is the result of collaboration between Tony Cashmore and Sir Nick Faldo...

  28. Curlewis Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    Situated on the Bellarine Peninsula, just over an hour’s drive from downtown Melbourne, the sandy soiled fairways at Curlewis Golf Club overlook the sparkling waters of Corio Bay.

  29. Sanctuary Lakes Golf Club

    Victoria, Australia

    The Sanctuary Lakes Resort is situated in the Point Cook district of Melbourne and it’s a grand scale residential golf project set out on property that was formerly used to produce salt commercially.

  30. Sandy Golf Links

    Victoria, Australia

    Rebranded as Sandy Golf Links, Sandringham Golf Course is owned by Bayside City Council and leased and operated by Sandringham Golf Links Management. Its extensive makeover was carried out by OCM, the design company that comprises Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashley Mead.