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Top-100 Spotlight
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Top-100 Spotlight: The Lakes Golf Club
When you roll through the gates at premier golf clubs, anticipating what you are about to experience is a thrill that never wanes.
9 Sep 2024
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
Top-100 Spotlight: The Heritage Golf & Country Club: Henley Course
The first time I played the Henley Course at The Heritage Golf & Country Club, I got lost heading to the 1st tee.
31 Jul 2024
Top-100 Spotlight: Royal Adelaide Golf Club
Royal Adelaide is one of Australia's finest courses and has been for nearly 100 years.
6 May 2024
Review: Pymble Golf Club
Of all the questions that are asked of a golf course one that is rarely heard is “does it give the members what they want?”
13 Mar 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
Top-100 Spotlight: Port Fairy Golf Links
Once upon a time, it was a little-known links on Victoria’s south-west coast. Today, the links at Port Fairy is firmly entrenched among the best 50 courses in the nation.
27 Nov 2023
Top-100 Spotlight: Flinders Golf Club
It is more than just a little ironic that the oldest golf club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, Flinders Golf Club, might also be the region’s most underrated.
18 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: Murray Downs Golf & Country Club
Murray Downs Golf & Country Club is one of the great golfing successes to be found along Australia’s greatest tributary, the Murray River.
24 Dec 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club
Queensland’s Bribie Island is all sand. And there is nothing a golf course architect likes more than being presented with a blank canvas of sandy terrain to gently poke and prod into a spectacular layout.
22 Dec 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Kew GC
Melbourne’s Kew Golf Club has been an important part of Victoria’s golfing landscape for 128 years.
28 Sep 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Links Hope Island
Next year marks the 30th anniversary of a Gold Coast golfing icon – Links Hope Island.
17 May 2022
Top-100 Spotlight: Ocean Dunes
One of the treasured qualities of the acclaimed links layouts of Great Britain and Ireland is the natural setting – wild windswept holes rolling between sand dunes that have been in existence for centuries are the norm.
11 Oct 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Alice Springs GC
Playing desert golf is a unique experience.
3 Aug 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Eastlake Golf Club
Wedged between the private Bonnie Doon and The Lakes Golf Clubs, on a long stretch of undulating terrain, is Eastlake Golf Club – a wonderful public access course making its mark in the national rankings.
28 Jun 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Long Reef GC
Five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson once described Long Reef as occupying “one of the best sites of any golf course in Sydney.”
7 Jun 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: The Glades Golf Club
One of the best courses to be found on the golf rich Gold Coast has had recent refurbishments validated with an improved national ranking. Here’s why The Glades’ popularity is growing.
21 Apr 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: The Coast Golf Club
A course on great golfing land isn’t always guaranteed to offer golf to match the quality of its location. Located among a string of seaside courses on some of the best golfing land in Sydney, The Coast provides a golfing experience the equal of its impressive address.
10 Mar 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Mollymook Golf Club
Having weathered bushfire and COVID-19 crises, Mollymook Golf Club is ready to put 2020 in the rear-vision mirror and greet the New Year as one of the best public access courses in the nation.
19 Jan 2021
Top-100 Spotlight: Cranbourne GC
Melbourne’s South East is home to the world famous Sandbelt courses. Travel a bit further and you will find some lesser known, but highly-rated gems, like Cranbourne Golf Club.
18 Dec 2020
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