Avondale Golf Club remains one of Sydney’s true hidden gems, a modern architectural triumph tucked into suburban bushland, with the velodrome-like 10th hole among the most memorable in the country.
Since relocating from suburban Doncaster to the outskirts of Melbourne in the Yarra Valley 11 years ago, Eastern Golf Club has built a new home for itself and garnered a renewed spirit – along with new golf courses.
The impact turned out to be immediate. Storied Huntingdale – arguably the most visible of Melbourne’s Sandbelt courses, thanks to its years of hosting the Australian Masters – is back. A widely praised renovation of the vaunted layout by OCM Golf has revived a Sandbelt favourite and brought the course to its highest position on Read more…
Of the five golf courses to return to our latest Top 100 Courses ranking after their deliberate omission in 2024, Mount Lawley Golf Club’s transformation perhaps represents the most fulfilling realisation of previously latent potential. While the other four courses (Huntingdale, Royal Sydney, Commonwealth and Links Kennedy Bay) have each made their own strides forward Read more…
The course once known as Fleurieu has remained a layout on the rise ever since it finally cracked the Top 100 a dozen years ago. Design-wise, the body of work is a combination of Neil Crafter and his late father, Brian. The pair penned the front nine in collaboration, with Neil devising the back nine Read more…
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…
No other Australian Open venue – and perhaps no other Australian golf course – has shut its doors a day after it first opened. Yet that’s the bizarre tale of The Grand, tucked away in the Gold Coast hinterland. Designed by Greg Norman and former design partner Bob Harrison for a consortium of Japanese owners, Read more…
The Hunter Valley wine region of New South Wales lacks few attractions, but until 2003 it was missing a top-shelf golf course. Cypress Lakes had opened 11 years earlier but wasn’t yet in the elite class. That changed when Greg Norman and Bob Harrison weaved fairways between the grapevines at The Vintage. With both the Read more…
Part of the rising fascination with Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula can be attributed to the ambitious yet impressive overhaul of the course now known as Lonsdale Links. When the design firm of Ogilvy Cocking Mead (OCM) embarked on the redesign of the old Lonsdale Golf Club, they took a gamble that paid off. The course today Read more…
Adelaide is a fortunate city. For its population, the South Australian capital is well served for world-class golf courses. Right among them is Kooyonga Golf Club, which ranks second in the city on our list but sits first in the hearts of many who prefer the nuances of the course in the suburb of Lockleys. Read more…
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