Australia

Victoria, Australia

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.

Victoria, Australia

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

Tasmania, Australia

Barnbougle Dunes is a memorable golf course made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts; it's the closest thing to a seaside links as exists in Australia.

Tasmania, Australia

It’s said that respected author Darius Oliver was instrumental in convincing businessman Duncan Andrews to develop the remote Cape Wickham site...

Tasmania, Australia

The 20-hole Barnbougle Lost Farm links opened for play in December 2010 and commentators already think this new golf course is equal to its world-beating neighbour.

New South Wales, Australia

New South Wales Golf Club is one of the most spectacular golf courses in Australia and it’s one of the toughest tests in the country.

New South Wales, Australia

Ellerston is the course that Greg Norman built for the flamboyant Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, the country's richest man, who sadly died in December 2005 at the age of 68.

Victoria, Australia

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.

Victoria, Australia

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

South Australia, Australia

Although the sea hasn’t bordered the course at The Royal Adelaide for some 10,000 years, it remains, like Royal Lytham & St Annes, more a links than an inland course.

Victoria, Australia

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.

Victoria, Australia

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.

Victoria, Australia

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

Victoria, Australia

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.

Tasmania, Australia

Six of the holes at Ocean Dunes are located hard against the coast, with the par threes at the 130-metre 4th and 210-metre 10th vying for “signature hole” status.

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.

New South Wales, Australia

Lakes are not the only hazard at the Lakes Golf Club. In fact, the front nine – with the exception of the opening hole – is water free...

Western Australia, Australia

Lake Karrinyup Country Club, "the place where the bush kangaroos graze", has held the Australian Open four times and the lake is an obvious focal point...

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.

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.

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.

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.

New South Wales, Australia

Given its manifest qualities and historical significance, Newcastle Golf Club is somewhat of an anomaly.

South Australia, Australia

Kooyonga Golf Club is one of the most interesting of Australia’s classic golf courses and it knocks most modern layouts into a cocked hat.

Victoria, Australia

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Western Australia, Australia

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., Joondalup – "the place of shining waters" – is one of only a handful of golf course projects undertaken in Australia by RTJ2.

ACT, Australia

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

New South Wales, Australia

The venue of the inaugural Australian Open in 1904 (host to twenty-one in total) and most recently in 2019, the Australian Golf Club is a wonderful championship venue.

New South Wales, Australia

Ross Watson was the architect who laid out the links-like resort course at Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club...

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.

Western Australia, Australia

Michael Coate, in conjunction with the late Roger Mackay and Ian Baker-Finch, has created a wonderful modern links course at Kennedy Bay.

Queensland, Australia

Royal Queensland Golf Club hosted three Australian Opens in 1947, 1966 and 1973. Perhaps the nation’s premier professional tournament is due a return here some time in the future?

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.

Queensland, Australia

The course at Brookwater Golf Club has become quite a talking point in its few short years of existence. It is essentially a public course and therefore receives a good airing with the golfing public.

Queensland, Australia

Hamilton Island Golf Club is not actually located on Hamilton Island; instead it’s laid out on nearby Dent Island and is accessed by ferry from the marina...

New South Wales, Australia

The third oldest club in Sydney, Bonnie Doon began life as Marrickville Golf Club in 1897 when members played on a 12-hole course laid out in the Sydney suburb of Tempe.

South Australia, Australia

Today’s course at Glenelg Golf Club has been completely transformed to keep pace with the demands of the modern game and the set of holes around the turn are probably the strongest...

New South Wales, Australia

Founded in 1899, Concord Golf Club is one of Australia’s oldest and most prestigious clubs where Tom Doak’s Renaissance Design has breathed new life following a course renovation…

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...

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.

South Australia, Australia

The West course at The Grange Golf Club measures 6,840 yards from the back markers and it plays to every inch of its length.

New South Wales, Australia

Royal Sydney Golf Club celebrated its centenary in 1993 and the championship course has evolved over 100 years into one of the finest in the country.

Queensland, Australia

The Greg Norman-designed course at The Grand Golf Club started out as the Gilston Golf Club in 1990 and its rebirth was complete when the club hosted the 2001 Australian Open.

New South Wales, Australia

Literally carved through rainforests, the holes at Bonville are played in virtual isolation to each other, with huge Blackbutt, Ironbark and Tallowood trees framing every fairway.

Western Australia, Australia

The Cut Golf Course is named after the nearby Dawesville Channel which was cut into the narrow strip of land separating the Harvey Estuary from the Indian Ocean...

Victoria, Australia

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

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...

Queensland, Australia

Hope Island is Thomson’s tribute to old-fashioned golf and it embodies all that is good in the links game...

Western Australia, Australia

A primitive course was established by Goldfields Golf Club members in 1899 and the club is still going strong, operating nowadays from the new Graham Marsh-designed Kalgoorlie Golf Course, which opened in 2010.

Victoria, Australia

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

New South Wales, Australia

The name Elanora comes from the Aboriginal word meaning “home by the water” and the Country Club certainly satisfies this geographical description...

New South Wales, Australia

The course at Vintage Golf Club borders the Beggars Bridge and Bimbadgen vineyards in the fertile Hunter Valley, near Cessnock and opened in 2003.

Tasmania, Australia

South Australia, Australia

The East course at the Grange Golf Club came of age twenty years after it opened when a fresh faced, 21 year old professional named Greg Norman won the West Lakes Classic...

Queensland, Australia

Situated in the Golden Beach area near Caloundra, Pelican Waters Golf Club lies on relatively flat land with creeks coming into play at nearly every hole...

New South Wales, Australia

Graham Marsh designed a challenging championship golf course at Terrey Hills, the first to be constructed in the Sydney area for over twenty years...

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...

Queensland, Australia

Arnold Palmer has designed more than 300 courses but so far he has only one Australian signature course to his name and it happens to be the Pines course here at Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club

Queensland, Australia

This Greg Norman designed course at The Glades Golf and Spa opened in 2000 and is considered to be one of the Great White Shark’s better golfing projects.

Western Australia, Australia

The Perth suburb of Cottesloe – famed for its beaches, cafés and relaxed lifestyle – is where the Cottesloe Golf Club was formed in 1908.

South Australia, Australia

With wonderful views of the Fleurieu coastline, Links Lady Bay offers golfers an authentic links-like experience with subtly undulating fairways, cunningly-placed bunkers and smooth, true greens...

Western Australia, Australia

The Meadow Springs golf course is laid out over gently undulating, open bushland with many of the fairways bounded by tall Tuart trees.

Victoria, Australia

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

New South Wales, Australia

The upscale 36-hole Riverside Oaks Golf Resort occupies a 600-acre property overlooking the Hawkesbury River, adjacent to the heavily forested Cattai National Park.

Western Australia, Australia

Unusually, the round at Western Australian Golf Club starts with an intimidating par three, one of five short holes on the card.

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.

South Australia, Australia

The Mount Compass golf course (formerly Fleurieu Golf Club) is situated an easy 45-minute drive from downtown Adelaide, with fairways routed around several lakes in a native bush setting that’s also home to kangaroos, echidnas and a wide variety of bird species.

New South Wales, Australia

Avondale Golf Club sits within one of the most densely populated metropolitan districts in Australia but, after passing through its under stated entrance, you are transported to another world...

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.

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.

Victoria, Australia

RACV Healesville Country Club nestles in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, on the edge of the Yarra Valley, and the course itself is routed over fairly undulating terrain.

Queensland, Australia

Many of the holes on the Championship course at the Capricorn Resort dogleg right or left to test the shot-making abilities of golfers and there’s plenty of water to be found on the inward half...

New South Wales, Australia

It’s no easy task living in the shadow of one of the world’s Top 50 ranked golf courses but that’s exactly what the 18-hole layout at St Michael’s has had to do...

Victoria, Australia

Laid out near the tip of the Mornington Peninsula, the course at Sorrento Golf Club is one of the oldest in the area and its hilly, sand-based fairways are set within densely forested terrain...

New South Wales, Australia

Situated on the lower north coast in the Port Stephens area of New South Wales, the 18-hole Pacific Dunes course is the focal point of a multi-million dollar golf and residential development.

Western Australia, Australia

Mount Lawley Golf Club began in the late 1920s when members cleared the original bushland, prepared the ground, planted trees and weeded the fledgling fairways over a two year period...

Victoria, Australia

Just over a decade after Sam Berriman laid out a course for the members at Huntingdale in 1941, he was appointed to design the 18-hole layout at Cranbourne Golf Club.

New South Wales, Australia

Surrounded by natural bushland, the course at Horizons Golf Resort is a Graham March and Ross Watson collaboration, with boardwalks guiding golfers around natural wetland areas at some of the holes on a very eco-diverse layout.

Victoria, Australia

The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria’s resort golf course at Cape Schanck is located on the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula, where the Bass Strait meets the tidal bay of Western Port...

Tasmania, Australia

The course at Tasmania Golf Club is set out on headland overlooking Barilla Bay with breathtaking views across the water...

New South Wales, Australia

Stonecutters Ridge Golf Club holds the distinction of being the first Greg Norman-badged course to debut in Sydney and it finally opened its doors to golfers in 2012, after almost five years of permitting and building delays.

New South Wales, Australia

Steve Smyers designed the course at Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club and the gently undulating front nine contrasts markedly against a more challenging back nine that’s laid out on hillier terrain, with great views of the Hunter Valley.

Victoria, Australia

The doors to Ranfurlie Golf Club's course first opened in 2002 and its generally wide, open fairways were the perfect foil for the tighter, tree-lined holes on the older Amstel Park course, which closed in 2016.

Queensland, Australia

One of the best conditioned public access courses in the country, Pacific Harbour Golf and Country Club arrived on the Australian golf scene in 2006...

Victoria, Australia

Opened for play in June 2015 and designed by Peter Thomson and Ross Perrett, the course at Black Bull Golf Club forms an integral part of the Silverwoods Golf & Lifestyle Resort.

Queensland, Australia

Kooralbyn Valley Resort was Australia’s first golf resort when it debuted in 1979. Ownership changed hands several times before it closed for six years in 2008, but it’s now back in all its former glory following an impressive refurbishment.

Victoria, Australia

Settlers Run Golf & Country Club 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...

Queensland, Australia

Visually stunning, the Palmer Coolum golf course utilises about a third of the resort property, with a mix of links-like holes on the stretch running along the Pacific Ocean.

Western Australia, Australia

Sun City Country Club was formed in the 1970s as a sporting amenity for a new satellite city, with Bob Green and Murray Dawson, the inaugural Club Captain, setting out the course.

New South Wales, Australia

Narooma Golf Club is famed for having some of the best kept greens in New South Wales and the course throws up one or two surprises with several blind tee shots to be negotiated...

ACT, Australia

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.

Victoria, Australia

Founded back in 1896, The Eastern Golf Club relocated twice before settling on a site just outside Yering, in the Yarra Valley, where Greg Norman fashioned 27 new holes for the members in 2016.

Victoria, Australia

The 36-hole Rosebud Country Club has been a golfing destination on the Mornington Peninsula since the early 1960s. Towering pine trees frame the fairways on the North course, where the Australian PGA Championship was held back in 1976.

ACT, Australia

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...

Western Australia, Australia

The Vines Resort & Country Club is situated in Swan Valley, the oldest wine growing region in Western Australia...

Victoria, Australia

The course at Horsham Golf Club once had the reputation as a tight track with tall, mature pine trees lining the secluded fairways but a fire in February 2009 destroyed many of the trees...