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Everything about the top golf courses in Australia
The best golf courses in Australia make an argument that begins and ends on the Melbourne Sandbelt, where the concentration of top-ranked courses within a single metropolitan circuit represents the most extraordinary collection of serious design on naturally suited ground outside of the British Isles. Royal Melbourne Golf Club's West Course leads this list and Australian golf without serious competition. Alister MacKenzie's 1926 design on naturally sandy Sandbelt terrain is consistently placed in the world's top ten and is the course that Australian golf's international standing is built on. Kingston Heath Golf Club gives the list its Sandbelt depth. The most admired second course on the belt, consistently named by experienced visiting players as the finest round they played after Royal Melbourne, its MacKenzie-influenced bunkering and heathland character place it in the same design tradition as the great Surrey and Berkshire courses of England. Together Royal Melbourne and Kingston Heath establish the Sandbelt as a destination in its own right. New South Wales Golf Club at La Perouse handles the Sydney circuit and the most visually dramatic coastal dimension. Its clifftop setting above the Tasman Sea south of Botany Bay produces holes whose ocean framing belongs in any serious list of the finest individual golf settings in the world. Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania gives the list its links dimension and its most remote and singular experience. Tom Doak and Mike Clayton's design on Bass Strait duneland on Tasmania's north coast, and the adjacent Lost Farm, together represent Australian golf's most complete expression of what naturally suited links terrain produces when serious design is applied to it.
