Course profiles

Golf courses in Australia

Course profiles built from official and public sources: length, the hole to know, the season that suits the course and what a round costs.

A course built through an arboretum in order to save it: Royal Canberra moved to Westbourne Woods in 1962, on a routing James Scott…

Established in 1928 in south-western Sydney: 6,068 metres of parkland with holes along the Georges River, a Group One rating and a course record…

Formed in 1908 by a meeting the mayor chaired, and moved twice since: a par 72 of 6,052 metres at East Ballina, long enough…

Formed at the Mechanics' Institute in 1907 and moved twice since: a par 72 of 6,042 metres opened at Darley in 1974, looking down…

Nine sandscrape holes laid out by eight members in 1937 and flooded by the river ever since: eighteen grass greens from 1996, a par…

Built in 1926 by the man who planted Avalon Beach's Norfolk Island pines after his coal mine failed: nine public holes, par 31, open…

A short bushland course at Mount Colah, off the M1: a par 70 of 5,494 metres whose holes point in every direction, so the…

Opened in 1939 on a leased dairy farm at The Gap, the last Brisbane club formed before the war: a par 67 of 4,899…

Founded in 1899 at close to 1,000 metres above sea level, in Australia's highest city: kikuyu fairways, bent greens, and a ball that flies…

Built by a community working bee in 1963 on the slopes of Razorback: nine holes that September, eighteen by 1969, and a par 70…

A Peter Thomson and Mike Wolveridge course opened in 1985 by Greg Norman and Johnny Miller: nearly 6,200 metres of irrigated fairway with the…

Two courses on a former asparagus farm at Barwon Heads: Tony Cashmore's Beach along 2.1 km of surf, a Faldo-assisted Creek behind it, and…