The Grand Golf Club is the best on the Gold Coast, with a bushland setting and a tumbling landform paving the way for a series of dramatic holes where timber and water combine to perplex golfers.
With 33 layouts in Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses, Victoria leaves other states in its wake when it comes to world-class fairways. But what makes the Garden State so great for golf, far beyond its famed Sandbelt region?
Since undergoing an extensive $6 million renovation in 2010, Princeville Makai has soared up the global golf-course rankings, including being named among the Top 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses in America by Golf Digest.
Our Tassie golfer helps you overcome sweltering heat and no apparent road rules to fully appreciate why Vietnam is one of the fastest growing golf markets on the planet.
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.
The 606-metre par-5 18th at Kapalua is the longest closing hole on any Golf Digest American-ranked course, but it’s still reachable in two, given its elevation drop and prevailing trade winds behind.
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.
Golf Digest’s inaugural ranking of the best courses across the ditch shines the spotlight on New Zealand’s international classics as well as its time-honoured gems.
Gailes Golf Club boasts a storied history, yet in its 95th year it is a progressive approach that is exposing the course to a far more diverse demographic.
Australian Golf Digest
