Settled on a parcel of land wedged between the Perth CBD and the Indian Ocean, Cottesloe is more parkland in style with many holes cascading down or climbing up the rolling site.
A new-look course with Tom Doak’s fingerprints all over it is just one of the many reasons you need to tick the world-class Mornington Peninsula off your travel list.
The 60-year-old ventured back to Australia last week as one of Tiger Woods’ three captain’s assistants at the Presidents Cup, during which he shared his thoughts on the biennial competition, reminisced about his past visits to Australia and hinted at making one more.
The Internationals had looked so unified for the better part of three days in the two pairs formats but collectively appeared listless when playing on their own on Sunday.
The smoke has cleared, figuratively if not literally, and the make-up of yet another Jason Day-less national championship has more clarity even if the skies above The Australian Golf Club do not.
The emergence in 2001 of the first course at Thirteenth Beach drew golfers’ attentions to the south-western corner of Port Phillip Bay as the golf offerings on the Bellarine began to flourish.
A golf course devised with a ‘Home of Australian Golf’ and the Australian Open in mind, Peter Thomson’s Open course at Moonah Links is a supremely difficult test of execution.
South Australia’s ornament to the national golf scene is Royal Adelaide Golf Course, a beautiful and challenging excursion between the sandy craters and smatterings of pine trees.
Australian Golf Digest
