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australia's top-100 courses
australias top 100 courses
Top-100 Spotlight: The Brisbane Golf Club
Founded in the late 19th century, Brisbane’s oldest golf club boasts an honour board adorned with the names of all-time greats who have won club and significant amateur events, including the likes of Norman Von Nida and Frank Phillips.
14 Aug 2024
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2024
Ranking golf courses, not unlike critiquing movies or restaurants, is far from being an exact science.
24 Jan 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: Warrnambool GC
It seems that every time Marc Leishman plays his way into contention in a tournament, his home town of Warrnambool, on Victoria’s Shipwreck Coast about three hours’ drive west of Melbourne, rates some kind of mention.
25 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Curlewis GC
It was a chilly autumn evening in 2015, yet there was a strange, aggressive heat in the air.
24 Feb 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: The Eastern GC
From the moment you drive through the gates and ease your way up the long driveway to the clubhouse, you can’t help but be struck by the splendour of the golfing landscape and its surrounds at The Eastern Golf Club.
9 Feb 2022
RANKING: Australia’s Top-100 Courses for 2022
After two years of uncertainty brought by pandemic lockdowns and border closures, here is the most comprehensive ranking of the nation’s finest layouts.
24 Jan 2022
Review: Mt Compass golf course
Inspired by the principles of Dr Alister MacKenzie, course architect Neil Crafter’s creation at Mt Compass ticks all the boxes when it comes to fun, strategic golf for players of all standards.
9 Aug 2021
Review: Magenta Shores Golf & Country Club
Despite being already well-established among the nation’s Top-100 Courses, the team at Magenta Shores is continually striving to improve its acclaimed layout and climb even higher in the rankings.
26 Oct 2020
Queuing up: How one club is recruiting young members
How do you attract and maintain more than 100 young members to your golf club in less than two years? Melbourne’s Kew Golf Club has the answer.
3 Jun 2020
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2020
After two years of judging, here is the most comprehensive ranking of the nation’s finest 100 layouts in the land.
10 Feb 2020
Inside Golf Australia January 2020
Australia has upwards of 1,600 golf courses. But we’ve spent the past two years combing the country to find the absolute best; the crème de la crème.
19 Dec 2019
CITY LIGHTS: Sydney
Australia’s largest city is blessed with some of the nation’s most famous attractions. After you’re done with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, here are the dozen highest-ranked courses to be found, all within a 45-minute drive of Sydney’s GPO.
5 Sep 2018
REVIEW: Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club
The words ‘Sanctuary Cove’ have always invoked thoughts of high quality, on and off its golf courses. And 30 years after being presented to the world, the Gold Coast jewel still impresses.
2 Sep 2018
REVIEW: Commonwealth Golf Club
The simplest values of strategic course design are being rediscovered by one of the star courses of the Melbourne Sandbelt and the golf is more interesting for it.
29 Jul 2018
REVIEW: Mt Compass Golf Course
A new owner, a new name, a new course superintendent and this South Australian gem is starting to sparkle again.
27 Jun 2018
RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Courses for 2018
So here it is. The culmination of two year’s work to comb the country and come up with the list of Australia’s Top-100 Courses.
18 Jan 2018
Wakehurst Golf Club
Wakehurst Golf Club took its time reaching completion and to shed its early ‘rocky’ reputation but today it is one of northern Sydney’s most picturesque and demanding layouts.
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