On Par – All about golf in Australia

Lost Farm – Now ranked 82nd in the world Golf.com has just released their biennial ranking of the Worlds Top 100 golf courses.  The rankings are always hotly debated and also used by fanatical golfers as a travel planner to attempt to play the entire list, many such as John Sabino still face the toughest [...]

The rolling sand dunes just out of Bridport on the North East coast of Tasmania were built for golf, thankfully Richard Sattler decided to do just that and hired Tom Doak and Bill Coore to turn the dunes into 38 holes of golfing heaven. Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm offer a world class golf experience, and [...]

After playing Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm last November, I knew I needed to return. The two layouts located on the remote North East coast of Tasmania are something very special. So I joined my golfing mates Steve, Nigel and Kelvin on a two day golf trip, also playing for the illustrious Purple Jacket in [...]

The latest edition of Australian Golf Digest arrived in my mailbox this week, and there were no surprises to learn that Kingston Heath had indeed knocked off Royal Melbourne for top spot in the Top 100 courses in Australia. Kingston Heath narrowly beat New South Wales Golf Club, with Royal Melbourne West, Barnbougle and Ellerston [...]

Steve Keipert, Editor of Australian Golf Digest (definitely worth a read) was interviewed recently on “The Pro Shop”, a weekly locally produced golf show on OneHD (definitely worth a look). Steve was discussing the bi-annual ranking of the Top 100 Australian Golf Courses. The Top 100 ranking like any other ranking is always going to [...]

Played St Andrews Beach Golf course on the Mornington Peninsula recently with Scott and Anthony, and its well worth a visit. The Tom Doak designed Gunnamatta layout opened in late 2005 and was planned as an exclusive private 36 hole layout. The second course (Fingle) was to be added over the next year or so. [...]

Played golf after work yesterday with colleagues Nige and Linds. Teed off at about 5:30pm at Yarra Bend Golf Course, only a short drive from Melbourne CBD. The summer twilight golf deal is excellent, $15 unlimited golf from 3:30pm. There arent many golf courses around that cost less than $1 per hole! Yarra Bend is [...]

Last year I blogged about Tony Cashmore’s golf course designs which include the Dunes, 13th Beach and Heritage Henley courses.  Having recently played the stunning Eynesbury golf course, I have to add Graham Marsh to my favourite course designers. Graham Marsh has designed courses throughout Australia, North America and Asia.  He makes the most of [...]

Golf Australia have recently released their top 50 Australian courses. The top ten are: ROYAL MELBOURNE (West course) (1) Designer: Dr Alister Mackenzie (1931) KINGSTON HEATH (2) Designer: Dan Soutar (1925) NEW SOUTH WALES (3) Designers: Alister Mackenzie (1928); Eric Apperly (1937 & 1951); Peter Thomson & Mike Wolveridge (1985); Jack Newton, Graeme Grant & [...]

After recently playing the Heritage Golf and Country Clubs’ Henley Course, I’ve added another Tony Cashmore designed layout to my list of favourite courses.  Tony Cashmore has designed numerous layouts throughout Australia, Yarrambat Park – A public course in North Eastern Melbourne, fantastic layout let down by a lack of water and probably a lack [...]