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…
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.
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…