Australia
The best sand nobody flies to
Melbourne's Sandbelt is the densest collection of great golf on earth outside of Britain, and Tasmania has two of this century's finest new courses. Our newest destination.
Four Sandbelt courses inside a twenty-minute radius, then a short flight to Barnbougle and King Island. The Australian season runs opposite to yours — our northern winter is their playing season — which makes it the right answer for a group that cannot get away in June. Bunkering here is a discipline of its own; you will come home rethinking what a hazard is for.
Courses we book here
$ to $$$$ · more on requestRoyal Melbourne (West)
Melbourne SandbeltMacKenzie and Russell on perfect sand. The bunkering is the reference point for the whole country.
Kingston Heath
Melbourne SandbeltA flat site made great by Soutar's routing and MacKenzie's bunkers. Many locals' favourite.
Victoria Golf Club
Melbourne SandbeltRoyal Melbourne's neighbour across the road, with greens every bit as good.
Metropolitan
Melbourne SandbeltThe purest turf in Australia and a bunker edge you could cut yourself on.
Peninsula Kingswood (North)
Melbourne SandbeltOgilvy Cocking Mead's restoration turned this into a must-play on any Sandbelt week.
Royal Melbourne (East)
Melbourne SandbeltMacKenzie's other Melbourne eighteen. Six of its holes make the Composite course, and it stands up on its own the rest of the year.
Commonwealth
Melbourne SandbeltRolling ground and a set of green complexes the other clubs get measured against. Quietly among the best in the country.
Yarra Yarra
Melbourne SandbeltMacKenzie bunkering restored with real care. The par threes alone justify the round.
Huntingdale
Melbourne SandbeltHost of the Australian Masters for three decades. Less celebrated than its neighbours and a serious test on the same sand.
Woodlands
Melbourne SandbeltShort, sandy and tree-lined, and it plays far bigger than the card. The course Melbourne members send each other to.
Southern
Melbourne SandbeltThe quiet end of the Sandbelt, on the same soil, with a green fee that reflects the anonymity rather than the golf.
Peninsula Kingswood (South)
Melbourne SandbeltThe second eighteen at Peninsula Kingswood, rebuilt alongside the North. Play both in a day if the club will have you.
Barnbougle Dunes
TasmaniaDoak and Clayton on Bass Strait duneland. The course that started Australia's links era.
Barnbougle Lost Farm
TasmaniaCoore's twenty holes next door, bigger in scale and just as wind-exposed.
Seven Mile Beach
TasmaniaClayton, DeVries and Pont on Hobart's doorstep, and free to play. Proof that great golf does not have to cost anything.
Cape Wickham
King IslandMore coastline in play than almost any course on earth. Worth the small plane.
Ocean Dunes
King IslandWilder and rougher than its neighbour, with holes that finish at the water's edge.
Thirteenth Beach (Beach)
Victoria CoastAn easy add on the drive to the Mornington Peninsula, and a genuinely good links.
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