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RANKING: Australia's Top-100 Public Access Courses for 2025
Presenting a guide to the best golf courses in Australia which are open to the public, allowing you to book a tee time without needing a membership.
23 Jan 2025
Review: Cobram Barooga Golf Club
The founding members of Cobram Golf Club could never have envisioned their humble nine-hole sand scrape course would one day expand to become a massive rolling 36-hole complex.
15 Apr 2024
Morri: Public golf... again
Almost evert day it seems my Twitter feed contains news of another public golf course under threat somewhere in the world.
26 Feb 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: Leongatha Golf Club
A list of the regional Victoria’s best golf courses would not be complete without Leongatha Golf Club in South Gippsland and its Vern Morcom-designed layout is about to get even better.
14 Dec 2023
Golf Australia continues to support golf facilities nationwide
Following its support of the Oakleigh Golf Course, Golf Australia is again throwing its support behind all public golf facilities that continue to be the lifeblood of the golfing community.
25 Oct 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Palm Meadows
In the late 1980s Palm Meadows was at the forefront of a new wave of resort courses being constructed in Australia.
26 Sep 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Kooindah Waters Golf Club
It’s in the nature of courses to change, diluting the links between designer and design – sometimes, however, it’s the architect that gets there first, ready to mentally file away the last project and move onto the next.
8 Aug 2023
Ranking: Western Australia's best public access courses for 2023
Looking for a round at a top course in Western Australia? Look no further we showcase the finest public access layouts in the golden west as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023.
4 Jul 2023
Ranking: NSW and ACT's best public access courses for 2023
If you're looking to play Australia's best courses where tee times are readily available, look no further. Here, we showcase the finest public access layouts in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023.
20 Jun 2023
Ranking: South Australia & NT's best public access courses for 2023
If you're looking to play Australia's best courses where tee times are readily available, look no further. Here, we showcase the finest public access layouts in South Australia and the Northern Territory as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023.
6 Jun 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: The Coast Golf Club
There is something special about playing golf on the water’s edge, alongside beach sand and at the mercy of mother nature.
5 Jun 2023
The Rise of Public Golf
Public golf is the foundation of the game at the grass roots in this country.
24 May 2023
Ranking: Tasmania's best Public Access Courses for 2023
Looking for the best courses to play around Australia, where getting a tee time is open for all golfers? Here, we showcase the finest public access layouts in Tasmania as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2023.
23 May 2023
Review: Toowoomba Golf Club
When judges started submitting their lists in late 2022 for Golf Australia’s ranking of the nation’s Top-100 Public Access Courses, there was an unfamiliar presence among the courses gaining a foothold among the century-makers.
26 Apr 2023
Review: Ballarat Golf Club
There has been no more learned person in Australian golf than the late Peter Thomson.
17 Oct 2022
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