One of the most naturally endowed golf estates in Australia, Thirteenth Beach is a 36-hole development that stretches for three kilometers along Barwon Heads’ famous surf beach. Designed by Tony Cashmore, the older Beach Course is the pick of the golf and starts by taking golfers in a loop
Largely unheralded outside Australia, Woodlands is yet another exceptional example of classic golf course architecture within Melbourne’s glorious Sandbelt. Though today it is one of the best bunkered courses in Australia, when formed back in 1913 the club’s landlord prohibited any ea
The coastal town of Albany in Western Australia’s southwest was the first settled in the state and also houses its oldest golf course at the Albany Golf Club. The club has existed on its present site since 1899 when a group of locals built the nine hole links. It was not extended to 18
The Alice Springs Golf Club is a desert layout that has been described as the ‘sporting showpiece of the unofficial capital of Central Australia.’ It was designed by Peter Thomson and Michael Wolveridge in 1985, and is set attractively in the foothills of the majestic MacDonnell R
Ranfurlie is the second course at the Amstel Golf Club, which was founded back in 1936, and the first full design by Victorian designer Michael Clayton. Located just outside Melbourne’s Sandbelt, the course sits on a fairly unattractive yet deceptively undulating property,
Perched atop a plateau in the Roleystone Hills to the east of Perth, the Araluen Golf Resort is an incredible feat of construction and must have been close to the most difficult golf course in Australia to build.
Set within a steep and secluded forest of towering natives, the course
The Arundel Hills Country Club is located on the Queensland Gold Coast, and home to a challenging layout designed by Fred Bolton in the 1990s. With its lakes, tight fairways and fast greens this is regarded as one of the toughest tests on the coast, and is usually kept in appropriately good condi
Along with Barnbougle Dunes and Laguna Whitsundays, the beautiful Bonville resort on the New South Wales north coast is probably the ideal resort for those wishing to take the non-golf partner on their next Australian golf holiday. The beauty of the area is breathtaking and with plenty to dist
