This month saw the release of the 2024 Top 100 list from Australian Golf Digest. What must be said, it is probably the most controversial, or thought provoking in some time. Only once before in the magazines 37 year history of conducting the rankings, has a course deposed Royal Melbourne G.C. West from its number one spot. That was in …
Aussiegolfquest Update – 2023 Year in Review
Four interstate trips playing some top golf clubs, along with half a round in the USA and my first venture into golf in the United Kingdom, were the highlights for 2024.
Rosebud Country Club (North)
Rosebud Country Club, located on the Mornington Peninsula, south east of Melbourne, is a course I have always thought about going to visit. Unfortunately it would always become second fiddle to many of the other courses found in the area,
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So the site has been down for just over a year. Maybe not quite with the message shown in the image, but still not viewable. I won’t get into the technical details, but it has been quite frustrating trying to get this fixed. The web hosting company could not assist. A web developer (colleague) was going to look, but never …
2023 Top 100 Golf Courses Public Access
Last month saw the release of the 2023 Golf Australia Magazine Top 100 public access golf course list. This is revised every two years, with a part of this period affected by Covid lockdowns. I find this list more susceptible to greater change, compared to the all course list, with sixteen courses entering this ranking compared to 2021 as some …
Yarra Yarra Golf Club
Location: Bentleigh East, VICEstablished: 1929Architect: Alex Russell (1929)/ Tom Doak & Brian Slawnik (2020-Ongoing)First Played: 11th Nov 2009Last Played: 11th Jan 2022 Magazine Ratings 27 (Current) 16 (Current) Originally having played Yarra Yarra Golf Club before starting my Top 100 adventure, but also before the major renovations in 2020, so it was inevitable that a return was necessary. My original …
Sandy Golf Links
Sandy Golf Links is located next door to a World top 10 course in Royal Melbourne Golf Club. Open to public access, it allows everyone to play a Sandbelt course.
Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club (North Course)
Fortunate enough to have previously played the original version of the Peninsula Country Golf Club north course, hearing that it would undergo a full redevelopment, meant there would definitely be a visit in the future. OCCM were awarded the work to carry this out and they certainly did not disappoint.
Aussiegolfquest Update – 2022 Year in Review
Another golfing year gone, another year older. Think I am starting to feel my age now. Two years have quickly passed since the outbreak of Covid. Gladly most of the lock downs and restrictions the World saw, are a distant memory. 2022 saw only one interstate visit to Tasmania, now a regular stop on my golf rota. There were still …
2022 Top 100 Golf Lists
During early 2022, the latest Top 100 golf lists were published from Golf Australia Magazine and Golf Digest Australia. Both underwent a challenging time with the compilation, due to COVID related travel restrictions and border closures, limiting the capability for both panels to view the number of courses visited. To compensate, an extension of time for the ranking period occurred, …