‘It burns me up that with the billions of dollars spent on course construction in the past fifty years, all the architects together haven’t been able to build another Royal Melbourne.’ Gene SarazenAustralia’s foremost golf club, Royal Melbourne’s

Along with fellow American Tom Doak, Bill Coore is the most respected and admired golf architect in the industry today. While Doak is an outspoken anti-establishment type, with forceful views and an unbridled self-confidence, Coore, by contrast, is a modest, mild-mannered designer with impecc

‘One of the most spectacular properties made available for golf in the past fifty years.’ Tom Doak on Barnbougle Dunes.Though the gorgeous island of Tasmania has long been a popular tourist destination, for more than 160 years its only real interest to golfers was

‘The flattish fingers of land along part of the clifftops were ready-made fairways grazed by sheep, I played 15 of the 18 holes with my crew one day before we had built anything.’ Tom Doak on Cape KidnappersSituated on the East Coast of New Zealand’s North I

‘At Ellerston we were able to create a course that a golfer of my calibre would love to play everyday for the rest of his life.’ Greg NormanLocked away in the secluded high country of the New South Wales Upper Hunter Valley lies the beautiful Ellerston estate, a v

‘Never yet have I advised upon a course where, owing to the excellence of design and construction work, the problems have been so simple.’ Dr Alister MacKenzie on Kingston HeathShortly after World War I, prominent Melbourne solicitor Stanley Dutton Green led a com

‘At Sydney, I made an entirely new course for the New South Wales Golf Club at a place called La Perouse. This is a sand-duned peninsula which overlooks Botany Bay and presents, I think, more spectacular views than any other place I know, with the possible exception of the new Cypress P

A short drive from the nation’s capital, ‘windy’ Wellington, New Zealand’s most famous piece of golfing ground was first used for the game back in 1929 when a group of local residents created a nine-hole course on leased sandhills within the seaside village of Paraparaumu

‘Moonah was our first experience in true links land and we had to adapt our style to the ground and wind. There were natural golf holes everywhere and it was our responsibility to try to find the best of them. It took months before we were ready to start construction.’ Bob Harriso

Melbourne businessman William Meader is considered the forefather of Victorian golf, having helped establish the state’s Golf Association in 1902 and founding the Victoria Golf Club the following year. Meader was later the driving force behind the club’s move into the southern Sandbel