Golf Courses - AUSTRALIA

Why play golf, if not to discover a place like this?

In the middle of Bass Strait, on the northwestern tip of remote King Island, sits Australia’s tallest lighthouse and one of the world’s ...

Fantastic experience playing the West Course. Favourite hole - the short par 4 10th.

‘Never yet have I advised upon a course where, owing to the excellence of design and construction work, the problems have been so simple.’ Dr Alister MacKenzie on Kingston Heath

Shortly after...

‘One of the most spectacular properties made available for golf in the past fifty years.’ Tom Doak on Barnbougle Dunes.

Though the gorgeous island state of Tasmania has long been a p...

‘At Sydney, I made an entirely new course for the New South Wales Golf Club at a place called La Perouse. This is a sand-duned peninsula which overlooks Botany Bay and presents, I think, more spect...

‘At Ellerston we were able to create a course that a golfer of my calibre would love to play everyday for the rest of his life.’ Greg Norman

Locked away in the secluded high country of the ...

Along with fellow American Tom Doak, Bill Coore is one of the most respected and admired golf architects in the industry today. Where Doak is an outspoken anti-establishment type with forceful view...

‘Moonah was our first experience in true links land and we had to adapt our style to the ground and wind. There were natural golf holes everywhere and it was our responsibility to try to find the b...

‘The National will make me famous - either as the designer who has created one of the worlds great golf courses or a designer who stuffed up some of the best golf course real estate imaginable.' Ro...

As the only mainland state Dr MacKenzie did not visit in a design capacity during his whirlwind 1926 tour, Western Australia retains a connection with this golden period of design thanks to the wor...