Royal Canberra Golf Club
A course built through an arboretum in order to save it: Royal Canberra moved to Westbourne Woods in 1962, on a routing James Scott…
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.
Bankstown Golf Club
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…
Ballina Golf & Sports Club
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…
Bacchus Marsh Golf Club
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…
Axedale Golf Club
Nine sandscrape holes laid out by eight members in 1937 and flooded by the river ever since: eighteen grass greens from 1996, a par…
Avalon Golf Course
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…
Asquith Golf Club
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…
Ashgrove Golf Club
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…
Armidale Golf Club
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…
Antill Park Country Golf Club
Built by a community working bee in 1963 on the slopes of Razorback: nine holes that September, eighteen by 1969, and a par 70…
Alice Springs Golf Club
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…
13th Beach Golf Links
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…
The Vintage Golf Club
Norman and Harrison among the Hunter Valley vines, and the only course of theirs in the state a visitor can book: best conditioned in…
The Lakes Golf Club
Mike Clayton cleared the scrub in 2009 and built some of the boldest greens in Australia on a water-heavy routing: strategy over length, and…
The Australian Golf Club
The oldest club in Australia, rebuilt twice by Nicklaus for television: conditioning tour professionals call the best they have played, on a site that…
Terrey Hills Golf & Country Club
Graham Marsh cut Sydney's first new course in twenty years out of sandstone bushland beside a national park: the largest greens in the city,…
The Royal Sydney Golf Club
Gil Hanse took nearly a decade and a court case to rebuild the Bay course at Rose Bay: 600 trees out, 250,000 heathland plants…
Royal Perth Golf Club
The oldest club in metropolitan Western Australia, private but on land leased from the city: small firm greens, eighty bunkers, and a river breeze…
Royal Melbourne Golf Club
MacKenzie routed it, Morcom built it, and the bunkering is what the world comes to see: the West Course, its acknowledged weak stretch, and…
Royal Adelaide Golf Club
An open links on real dune land with a railway running through it, and the crater hole at the eleventh: MacKenzie's advice, Clayton's trees,…
Rockingham Golf Club
Eighteen holes carved out of tuart and grass-tree bushland beside Lake Cooloongup: kangaroos, solitude, deceptive greens, and completely flat ground.
Ringwood Golf
Council golf in Melbourne's east, kept better than most private clubs manage: wide fairways, honest value, and unrepaired pitch marks that come with open…
North Adelaide Golf Course
Fifty-four holes on public parkland beside the city centre, including Australia's first eighteen-hole par three: cheap, accessible, and unevenly maintained.
New South Wales Golf Club
MacKenzie on the headland at the mouth of Botany Bay, and Apperly's short hole over the ocean: wind from every direction, and a course…
The Metropolitan Golf Club
The first club on the Sandbelt proper, and the one whose greens the rest of Australia is measured against: flat, fast, immaculate, and quietly…
Lake Karrinyup Country Club
Alex Russell around a wetland lake north of Perth, rated the best course in the state: real elevation change, kangaroos on the fairways, and…
Kooyonga Golf Club
A man saw the sandhills from a tram in 1922, founded the club and designed the course himself: among the best-conditioned in Australia, and…
Kingston Heath Golf Club
Soutar routed it, MacKenzie bunkered it, and the short fifteenth is the result: the most admired sand on the Sandbelt, on a site smaller…
Huntingdale Golf Club
Alison's only Australian course, home of the Australian Masters for thirty years, rebuilt by Ogilvy Cocking Mead: deep sand, brutal short holes, and a…
Commonwealth Golf Club
A club captain went to Britain to study Colt and came home to finish the course himself: greens tilted to reward one side of…
Chatswood Golf Club
Australia's first purpose-built twelve-hole course, reopened in May 2026 on steep bushland above the Lane Cove River: two hours of golf, and a hill…
Albany Golf Club
The oldest links in Western Australia, on dunes facing the Southern Ocean: the closest thing in the country to Scotland, five hundred kilometres from…