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…
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.
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…