Boonie Doon is a course that has kept rising on our ranking ever since completing its drawn-out redesign that saw almost a decade of segmented upheaval, yet was surely worth the wait.
Murray River golf courses, while attractive to tour and fun to play, do tend to follow a certain design script. When Black Bull Golf Course opened 10 years ago, it broke the rules and moved away from narrow, treelined runways and instead used its lakeside location to cultivate a larger, links-style course where the breezes Read more…
The par-3 third at Narooma might be one of the most photographed holes in Australian golf, although don’t dismiss the course in the quiet southern New South Wales town as having a singular reason to visit.
A perennial favourite on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, Twin Waters Golf Club melds links qualities with a tropical location and climate. Members, holidaying golfers and regular visitors keep coming back because the offering is always – and pleasingly – the same. In some ways Twin Waters is the chicken parmigiana of golf courses. It might not Read more…
The ever-evolving Westbourne course at Royal Canberra Golf Club, comprising holes one to 18, represents a magnificent layout in a wooded, lakeside setting that’s equally stellar.
When Royal Fremantle returned to our biennial ranking of Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses last year after a 26-year absence, it was less of a surprise and more of an overdue recognition.
Call it secluded, call it unheralded, call it hidden within the bushy suburbs of Australia’s largest city. Whichever way you wish to frame it, found mere walking distance from Sydney’s bustling Pacific Highway is the bushland oasis of Avondale, which has been a steady rankings riser ever since Ross Watson oversaw thorough redesign work in Read more…
For many years Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula sat in the shadow of its cross-bay sister peninsula, the Mornington, when it comes to golf. However, the emergence in 2001 of the first course at 13th Beach drew golfers’ attentions to the south-western corner of Port Phillip Bay as the golf offerings on the Bellarine began to flourish.
Australia has an oversupply of golf courses where comparisons are made between them and Augusta National. Bonville is one; Royal Canberra (pre-redesign, but perhaps also post) is another. However, the course that arguably resembles the mighty Georgia layout most closely is the Hilltop course at Mollymook Golf Club.
Some golf courses are the result of the efforts and input of dozens of people – perhaps more. Others are the vision of a single person or one dedicated couple. For Cathedral, it was the latter. David and Sonya Evans had the land, the financial requirements and the courage to build a golf club of Read more…
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