
Australia
Australia is the sixth largest country in the world but it has the world’s lowest population density with a mere two people sharing each square kilometre. Australia's biggest attraction is its stunningly natural beauty with more than 7,000 beaches and some of the most diverse landscapes you’ll find anywhere in the world.
Royal Melbourne Golf Club (West)
Victoria, Australia
Royal Melbourne Golf Club (West)
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.
Kingston Heath Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Kingston Heath Golf Club
Kingston Heath Golf Club pushes Royal Melbourne – and in some opinions exceeds it – as the premier course in Australian golf.
Barnbougle (The Dunes)
Tasmania, Australia
Barnbougle (The Dunes)
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.
Cape Wickham Golf Links
Tasmania, Australia
Cape Wickham Golf Links
It’s said that respected author Darius Oliver was instrumental in convincing businessman Duncan Andrews to develop the remote Cape Wickham site...
Barnbougle (Lost Farm)
Tasmania, Australia
Barnbougle (Lost Farm)
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 Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
New South Wales Golf Club
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.
Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club (North)
Victoria, Australia
Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club (North)
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 Golf Club - Australia
Victoria, Australia
Victoria Golf Club - Australia
There is clearly something about Victoria Golf Club that renders it even better than the sum of its very impressive parts.
Royal Adelaide Golf Club
South Australia, Australia
Royal Adelaide Golf Club
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.
Royal Melbourne Golf Club (East)
Victoria, Australia
Royal Melbourne Golf Club (East)
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.
The National Golf Club (Gunnamatta)
Victoria, Australia
The National Golf Club (Gunnamatta)
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.
The Metropolitan Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
The Metropolitan Golf Club
Seven Australian Opens, five Australian PGAs and ten other professional tournaments have been hosted at the Metropolitan Golf Club.
The National Golf Club (Moonah)
Victoria, Australia
The National Golf Club (Moonah)
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.
Ocean Dunes Golf Course
Tasmania, Australia
Ocean Dunes Golf Course
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.
St Andrews Beach Golf Course
Victoria, Australia
St Andrews Beach Golf Course
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.
The Lakes Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
The Lakes Golf Club
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...
Lake Karrinyup Country Club (Championship)
Western Australia, Australia
Lake Karrinyup Country Club (Championship)
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...
The National Golf Club (Old)
Victoria, Australia
The National Golf Club (Old)
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.
Peninsula Kingswood (South)
Victoria, Australia
Peninsula Kingswood (South)
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.
Woodlands Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Woodlands Golf Club
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.
Cathedral Lodge Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Cathedral Lodge Golf Club
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.
Newcastle Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
Newcastle Golf Club
Given its manifest qualities and historical significance, Newcastle Golf Club is somewhat of an anomaly.
Kooyonga Golf Club
South Australia, Australia
Kooyonga Golf Club
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.
The Dunes Golf Links (The Dunes)
Victoria, Australia
The Dunes Golf Links (The Dunes)
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.
Yarra Yarra Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Yarra Yarra Golf Club
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.
Barwon Heads Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Barwon Heads Golf Club
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.
Commonwealth Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Commonwealth Golf Club
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.
13th Beach Golf (Beach)
Victoria, Australia
13th Beach Golf (Beach)
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.
Joondalup Resort (Quarry & Dune)
Western Australia, Australia
Joondalup Resort (Quarry & Dune)
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.
Royal Canberra Golf Club (Westbourne)
ACT, Australia
Royal Canberra Golf Club (Westbourne)
Designed by Commander John Harris, the Westbourne course at Royal Canberra is delightfully routed through the Westbourne Woods arboretum.
The Australian Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
The Australian Golf Club
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.
Magenta Shores Country Club
New South Wales, Australia
Magenta Shores Country Club
Ross Watson was the architect who laid out the links-like resort course at Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club...
Lonsdale Links
Victoria, Australia
Lonsdale Links
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.
The Links Kennedy Bay
Western Australia, Australia
The Links Kennedy Bay
Michael Coate, in conjunction with the late Roger Mackay and Ian Baker-Finch, has created a wonderful modern links course at Kennedy Bay.
Royal Queensland Golf Club
Queensland, Australia
Royal Queensland Golf Club
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?
Moonah Links (Legends)
Victoria, Australia
Moonah Links (Legends)
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.
Brookwater Golf & Country Club
Queensland, Australia
Brookwater Golf & Country Club
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.
Hamilton Island Golf Club
Queensland, Australia
Hamilton Island Golf Club
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...
Bonnie Doon Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
Bonnie Doon Golf Club
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.
Concord Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
Concord Golf Club
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…
Port Fairy Golf Links
Victoria, Australia
Port Fairy Golf Links
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...
Portsea Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Portsea Golf Club
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.
Grange Golf Club (West)
South Australia, Australia
Grange Golf Club (West)
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.
The Royal Sydney Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
The Royal Sydney Golf Club
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.
The Grand Golf Club
Queensland, Australia
The Grand Golf Club
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.
Bonville Golf
New South Wales, Australia
Bonville Golf
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.
The Cut Golf Course
Western Australia, Australia
The Cut Golf Course
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...
Moonah Links Resort (Open)
Victoria, Australia
Moonah Links Resort (Open)
Home to Golf Australia (formerly the AGU), the Open at Moonah Links is a championship course built and prepared for national competition...
Spring Valley Golf Club
Victoria, Australia
Spring Valley Golf Club
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...
Hope Island Golf Course
Queensland, Australia
Hope Island Golf Course
Hope Island is Thomson’s tribute to old-fashioned golf and it embodies all that is good in the links game...
Kalgoorlie
Western Australia, Australia
Kalgoorlie
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.
Huntingdale Gold Club
Victoria, Australia
Huntingdale Gold Club
Where Huntingdale Golf Club has really made its mark on the Australian golf scene is its annual hosting of the Australian Masters.
Elanora Country Club
New South Wales, Australia
Elanora Country Club
The name Elanora comes from the Aboriginal word meaning “home by the water” and the Country Club certainly satisfies this geographical description...
The Vintage Golf Club
New South Wales, Australia
The Vintage Golf Club
The course at Vintage Golf Club borders the Beggars Bridge and Bimbadgen vineyards in the fertile Hunter Valley, near Cessnock and opened in 2003.
Grange (East)
South Australia, Australia
Grange (East)
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...
Pelican Waters
Queensland, Australia
Pelican Waters
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...
Terrey Hills
New South Wales, Australia
Terrey Hills
Graham Marsh designed a challenging championship golf course at Terrey Hills, the first to be constructed in the Sydney area for over twenty years...