With regional travel back on the agenda, Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula and neighbouring regions offer the ultimate return to normalcy for golf-starved travellers.
With outstanding and abundant bunkering, Woodlands looks, sounds and feels like a course befitting the Sandbelt moniker, regardless of your geographical definition of where it begins and ends.
We reveal the 25 layouts that take top turf conditioning to a whole new level and find out why the COVID-19 lockdown actually provided a timely ‘reset’ many courses so desperately needed.
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?
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.