The journey to Albany Golf Club is more like a pilgrimage to play a layout ranked No.99 on Australia’s Top 100 Golf Courses. The remoteness of Albany (population 35,053) in Western Australia’s Great Southern region, 405 kilometres south-east of Perth, is accentuated by the formidable coastline from where Anzac soldiers departed for the battlefields of Europe in 1914.
William Angove is recognised as the architect of the state’s oldest golf course on its original site (1898) along the foreshore of King George Sound. Despite the kikuyu playing surfaces, Albany has a genuine linksy feel along with the novelty of ‘hogs-back’ cambered fairways on the 6,068-metre, par-72 layout.
The panoramic views from Albany’s highest vantage points are breathtaking – especially so if you’re lucky enough to catch Southern Right whales breaching as close as 100 metres offshore.
THE DETAILS:
Ranking for 2024-2025: 99th
Prior rankings: 92nd (2010), 91st (2008), 91st (2004), 67th (2002), 59th (2000),
69th (1998), 73rd (1996), 52nd (1991), 35th (1989), Ninth Ten (1986)
Where: Barry Court, Middleton Beach WA 6330
Phone: (08) 9844 8855
