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Review: Portarlington Golf Club

Review: Portarlington Golf Club

The past 20 years have been a bullish period for golf on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. 3 May 2023

Review: Toowoomba Golf Club

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: Sandhurst Golf Club

Review: Sandhurst Golf Club

For the avid golfer, Melbourne’s south-east might best be described as paradise. 10 Mar 2023

REVIEW: Hamilton Island Golf Club

REVIEW: Hamilton Island Golf Club

The sun was just rising above the eastern horizon when I arrived at the Hamilton Island marina to get the ferry that would whisk me across the narrow passage to Dent Island for a morning of golf and then lunch at Hamilton Island Golf Club. 27 Feb 2023

Review: Sun City Country Club

Review: Sun City Country Club

Ask Mike Clayton what he thinks about the quality of golf to be found in Perth and he will get straight to the point. 6 Jan 2023

Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Lost Farm

Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Lost Farm

When Barnbougle Dunes opened for play in 2004 it had its share of critics who suggested it was too isolated for the golfing masses to make it a financially viable success. 5 Oct 2022

Top-100 Spotlight: The Vintage

Top-100 Spotlight: The Vintage

There is almost comfort in the monotony of making a trip you have made many times before. A feeling enhanced when you know there is an enjoyable experience at the end of your journey. 12 Sep 2022

Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

Top-100 Spotlight: The Cut GC

There was a time not that long ago when golfers could have been forgiven for thinking there was little chance of any new links courses being built around the Australian coastline. 18 Aug 2022

Ranking: Victoria's best courses for 2022

Ranking: Victoria's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around Australia? Here, we showcase the very best layouts to be played in Victoria as voted by our Top-100 Courses ranking judges for 2022. 1 Jun 2022

Ranking: NSW & ACT's best courses for 2022

Ranking: NSW & ACT's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around the country? Here, we showcase the finest layouts to be played in New South Wales and the nation's capital as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 25 May 2022

Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Dunes

Top-100 Spotlight: Barnbougle Dunes

“Golf courses can’t be boring. If a course is boring golfers won’t come back. To capture that sort of repeat business, you need to build golf holes that are seared into people’s memories, and Barnbougle has those in spades.” – Tom Doak. 23 May 2022

Ranking: South Australia & NT's best courses for 2022

Ranking: South Australia & NT's best courses for 2022

Planning your next golf holiday or weekend away and looking for the best courses to play? Here, we showcase the finest layouts in South Australia and the Northern Territory as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 18 May 2022

Review: Federal Golf Club

Review: Federal Golf Club

Canberra is quite obviously best known for being the home of our Federal Parliament and all manner of government agencies. But there is far more to attract you to the nation’s capital. 9 May 2022

Top-100 Spotlight: Killara GC

Top-100 Spotlight: Killara GC

By the late 1800s the once dry, rocky and inhospitable scrub of Sydney’s North Shore had been settled with farms, orchards and timber mills and was home to a growing population who found time for the occasional leisure activity in the period of relative prosperity before World War I. 5 May 2022

Review: Bonville Golf Resort

Review: Bonville Golf Resort

Bonville Golf Resort is Australia’s most beautiful inland golf course. 4 May 2022

Ranking: Tasmania's best courses for 2022

Ranking: Tasmania's best courses for 2022

Looking for the best places to play around the country? Here, we showcase the finest layouts in Tasmania as voted by our Top-100 ranking judges for 2022. 4 May 2022

Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Clayton: The Makings Of A Top-100 Course

Golf courses are lots of things to lots of people and ranking them in some sort of rational order is fraught given the emotions golf courses engender are not always rational. 15 Mar 2022

Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

Review: Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club

The wine can wait – a taste for golf will take visitors to this established and vastly improved Hunter Valley icon. 11 Mar 2022

Review: Nudgee Golf Club

Review: Nudgee Golf Club

With a Centenary year fast approaching, Brisbane’s Nudgee Golf Club is on the cusp of completing what is arguably the most exciting project in their long history. 23 Feb 2022

Inside Golf Australia January 2022

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Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2021, as voted by you

Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2021, as voted by you

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