Best Golf Courses in Victoria
12 ranked courses in Victoria
Victoria has 12 courses in this guide, the most of any Australian state, and nine of them are private. By type there are four parkland courses, four links and four heathland. Eight are in Melbourne's suburbs on the Sandbelt. Royal Melbourne Golf Club — West Course at Black Rock is the work of Alister MacKenzie and Alex Russell, renovated by Tom Doak in 2015-2016. Kingston Heath Golf Club in Cheltenham is Dan Soutar's 1925 course with bunkering by MacKenzie, and Victoria Golf Club, also in Cheltenham, opened in 1927 to a design by Oscar Damman and Bill Meader and has held the Australian Open several times, including in 2024. The Metropolitan Golf Club in Oakleigh South dates from 1908, Woodlands Golf Club in Mordialloc from 1913 and Commonwealth Golf Club in Oakleigh South from 1920. Yarra Yarra Golf Club in Bentleigh East is Alex Russell's 1929 course, which has been restored. Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club in Frankston has two courses, North and South, redesigned by OCCM. The other four are by the sea. On the Mornington Peninsula, The National Golf Club - Moonah Course at Cape Schanck is a Greg Norman and Bob Harrison links, and St Andrews Beach Golf Club at Fingal is a public par 70 by Tom Doak and Mike Clayton. At Barwon Heads on the Bellarine Peninsula, The Barwon Heads Golf Club is a par 70 links laid out by Victor East, and 13th Beach Golf Links, home of Tony Cashmore's 2001 Beach Course, has hosted the Victorian Open since 2013.
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Top 10 Best Golf Courses in Victoria
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About Golf Courses in Victoria
The Sandbelt clubs sit close together, with Commonwealth and Metropolitan both in Oakleigh South, and Kingston Heath and Victoria both in Cheltenham, so several rounds fit one Melbourne stay where a member introduction or reciprocal arrangement is in place. Frankston leads on to the Mornington Peninsula for The National and St Andrews Beach, and Barwon Heads, with its two clubs, is a separate trip to the Bellarine Peninsula.
- Ranked courses
- 12
- Course styles
- heathland 4 · links 4 · parkland 4
- Access
- private 9 · public 2 · resort 1
- Opened
- 1908–2001
- Playable without membership
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