Great Golf Courses Australia

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Hardcover and fully illustrated book profiling the top 50 most desirable golf courses in Australia. Compiled by Golf Australia magazine. Welcome to every golfer’s ‘must play’ list. Great Golf Courses Australia nominates the top locations down under. Features a range of unique locations, from the major metropolitan courses to stunningly diverse locations such as King Island, Kalgoorlie and Port Fairy. It’s a best of the best list of astonishingly beautiful and challenging locations for enthusiasts. The line-up was compiled by Golf Australia editor Brendan James. For each course covered there is information on the standout holes, history and features. The stunning colour images will inspire golfers to start planning their next trip.

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Great Golf Courses Australia. Welcome to every golfer’s ‘must play’ list.

Great Golf Courses Australia nominates the top locations down under. Features a range of unique locations, from the major metropolitan courses to stunningly diverse locations such as King Island, Kalgoorlie and Port Fairy.

It’s a best of the best list of astonishingly beautiful and challenging locations for enthusiasts. The line-up was compiled by long-time Golf Australia editor Brendan James.

For each course covered there is information on the standout holes, history and features. The stunning colour images, many captured by drone, will inspire golfers to start planning their next trip.

Great Golf Courses Australia written by Brendan James

Barnbougle Dunes

Bridport, Tasmania

Designers: Tom Doak and Mike Clayton, 2004

Address: Waterhouse Road, Bridport, Tasmania

‘Golf courses can’t be boring. If a course is boring golfers won’t come back. To capture that sort of repeat business, you need to build golf holes that are seared into people’s memories, and Barnbougle has those in spades.’ These are the wise words of Tom Doak, one of the world’s best golf-course architects and Barnbougle Dunes’ co-designer alongside Mike Clayton. More than two decades after the first shots were struck here, much of Barnbougle’s ongoing success can be attributed to the golfers who visit time and time again to test themselves across this wonderful stretch of Tasmanian coastline

Cape Wickham Golf Links

King Island, Tasmania

Designers: Mike DeVries and Darius Oliver

Address: Cape Wickham Road,

King Island, Tasmania

If you keep your head down while playing golf at Cape Wickham Golf Links you’re missing the point of playing golf on King Island. The site is remote, exposed, windswept and stunningly beautiful, everything a truly grand golf location should be. It boasts an incredible setting, and the cavalcade of world-class holes ensures it stands among the world’s finest courses.

Joondalup Resort

Connolly, Western Australia

Designer: Robert Trent Jones Jnr, 1985 Address: Country Club Boulevard, Connolly, Western Australia

Joondalup sets a high standard for visually striking and immaculately presented golf, thanks to the creative mind of American course architect Robert Trent Jones Jnr. Jones’ career began alongside his celebrated designer father Robert Trent Jones in the early 1960s before forming his own design company in 1972. In the nearly five decades since Jones has created or remodelled nearly 300 golf courses across more than 40 countries.

Great Golf Courses Australia for any golf lover who dreams of playing the best courses in Australia!

As you will discover in this book, some of Australia’s greatest courses date back to the golden age of course development during the late 1920s, when the legendary Dr Alister MacKenzie came to Australia and set perfect examples of classic course architecture, examples that still have great influence on modern course design worldwide. He left his mark on wonderful courses in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland during his brief stay, and he also greatly influenced generations of like-minded designers and lovers of the game with his golfing philosophies, all of which revolve around having fun.

Written by Brendan James. Brendan has played and photographed golf courses throughout Australia for over 30 years, teeing up at over 1000 layouts across that time. Brendan has worked at Golf Australia magazine for much of that time, including as editor between 2003 and 2024.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gelding Street Press (31 July 2024)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1922662100
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1922662101