Best Golf Courses in Australia
22 ranked courses in Australia
Australia has 22 courses in this guide, and 12 of them are in Victoria. Fourteen of the 22 are private, four are resort courses and four are public; by type, nine are links, eight parkland, four heathland and one coastal. The Victorian clubs have their own page: Royal Melbourne Golf Club — West Course, Kingston Heath Golf Club, Victoria Golf Club and five more Sandbelt clubs in Melbourne's suburbs, with The National Golf Club - Moonah Course and St Andrews Beach Golf Club on the Mornington Peninsula and 13th Beach Golf Links and The Barwon Heads Golf Club on the Bellarine Peninsula. Tasmania has four links. Barnbougle Dunes, Tom Doak and Mike Clayton's 2004 course, and Barnbougle Lost Farm share a property near Bridport on the Bass Strait coast, and both are resort courses. Cape Wickham Golf Links, a 2015 public links by Mike DeVries and Darius Oliver, sits on King Island, and 7 Mile Beach, by Mike Clayton and Mike DeVries, opened its South Course near Hobart in December 2025. Adelaide has two private clubs, Royal Adelaide Golf Club in Seaton and Kooyonga Golf Club in Lockleys, Herbert Rymill's course from 1923. Sydney has New South Wales Golf Club on Cape Banks at La Perouse and The Lakes Golf Club in Eastlakes, founded in 1928. Royal Queensland Golf Club in Brisbane dates from 1920, and Joondalup Resort, a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design, is in Connolly in Perth's northern suburbs.
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Melbourne is the biggest trip: eight clubs sit in its suburbs, with the Mornington and Bellarine peninsulas a drive away. Tasmania pairs the two Barnbougle courses at Bridport with 7 Mile Beach near Hobart, and Cape Wickham is a flight of about an hour from Melbourne to King Island. Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth each work as a single-city stop, though five of their six clubs are private.
- Ranked courses
- 22
- Course styles
- links 9 · parkland 8 · heathland 4
- Access
- private 14 · public 4 · resort 4
- Opened
- 1908–2025
- Playable without membership
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