A leading tournament venue, Concord’s hosted a number of championship tournaments including the Australian PGA, the NSW Open, the ANZ Championship and the Australian Women’s Open.

Centrally located in the Inner West of Sydney, Concord’s challenging and superbly-presented championship course, classic clubhouse and beautifully manicured gardens make it one of the most respected in the country.

From conception and construction, through to its day-to-day operations, the Hamilton Island Golf Club is strongly committed to preserving the pristine environment of the world’s largest protected marine area – the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The island’s natural and rugged beauty, together with its mountainous terrain affords stunning 360 degree views across secluded coves and beaches to adjacent islands and the mainland beyond.

The stunning Chris Beckingham-designed clubhouse is ideally perched to catch the soft sea breeze and to take in the stunning views of Passage Peak and the sparkling Coral Sea. The clubhouse offers a stylishly relaxed restaurant and bar, along with a well-stocked pro shop and ladies and mens locker rooms including showers. The staff can assist with a variety of services including bookings, rental clubs, on-course refreshments and comprehensive expert tuition to help fine-tune your game.

Getting to Hamilton Island is easy; it’s the only island in the Whitsundays with a commercial airport. There are direct flights from Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Cairns and simple connections from other major Australian cities. Once on Hamilton Island, Dent Island is just a short ferry ride from the Hamilton Island Marina.

In 2008 Huntingdale celebrated its 30th consecutive year of hosting the Australian Masters and is justifiably recognised as the ‘Home of the Australian Masters’.

Huntingdale’s golf affiliations go back to 1896, when Surrey Hills Golf Club was established. The Club prospered until 1914, when it disbanded on the outbreak of the First World War. By 1941, after moving from the Surrey Hills site, to Canterbury Road in Box Hill then Doncaster Road, Doncaster, club members elected to move into the Sandbelt region, and onto land previously used for coursing by the Melbourne Hunt Club. When the course re-opened in 1941, it took the name Huntingdale Golf Club.

Among the big events played on the course are the 1967 Australian Open, which local player Peter Thomson won by seven shots, and the 2010 and 2011 Women’s Australian Open, both won by Yani Tseng of Taiwan.

The Club has also been included in Tom Doak’s list of 31 courses ‘among the first I would take a good friend to see’. He said that…

‘The genius of Commonwealth is its adherence to one simple rule – that each green should be oriented or tilted in such a way that it cradles an approach from one side of the fairway and shoulders away shots from the incorrect line of approach’

NSW is a wonderful combination of undulating fairways, beautiful scenic vistas and a spectacular clubhouse which is a magnificent combination of traditional architecture and five star comfort. Shortly after its 1928 opening, an edition of ‘Golf in Australia’ magazine described NSW as needing ‘only the improving hand of time to become the acme of perfection’. The hand of time has indeed improved this masterpiece and though it is unlikely any course is the absolute ‘acme of perfection’, NSW Golf Club gets about as close as any in Australia.

The course and club are steeped in history. It is a well known historical fact that Captain Cook and his crew found their first drinking water in a natural spring below where the 18th tee is located today.

In short, this is more than just a golf course – it is an unforgettable experience of nature. To play golf at NSW Golf Club is to play golf how the game was intended to be played – at the complete mercy of Mother Nature and the golfer’s ability.

Designed by Dan Soutar with bunkering from Dr Alister MacKenzie, and constructed by Royal Melbourne greenkeeper Mick Morcom, the course was ready for play in 1925. It was officially the longest course ever seen in Australia. Measuring a little over 6200 metres, its par of 82 included 12 par 5s and just two par 3s.

Nowadays as a par 72 course, many golfers are grateful they were not around to tackle the Heath in its infancy armed with a hickory shafted Brassie and Niblick.

Since the 1948 Australian Open, Kingston Heath has regularly hosted national and international tournaments, including seven Australian Opens and one Women’s Open. Having first played at Elsternwick in 1909, the Club marked its centenary in 2009 with a new clubhouse and by staging the Australian Masters, won by Tiger Woods.

As the metropolis expanded, members found a new home in 1911 at nearby Rosanna on the banks of the Yarra River. Yarra, an indigenous word for ‘flowing’, was selected when renaming the Club to reflect their new surroundings. In 1927, the necessity to find better golfing land led to the purchase of the present site in Bentleigh East, and the club relocated once more.

Hundreds of people attended the official opening of the course and Mediterranean-style clubhouse in February 1929. Then and now, Yarra Yarra Golf Club presents a warm and friendly ambience in a setting unrivaled among Melbourne’s golf courses.

Many of the world’s greatest golfers have competed in tournaments here. This includes Walter Hagen, ‘Babe’ Didrickson, Joe Kirkwood and Peter Thomson, along with Johnny Miller, Greg Norman, Ian Baker-Finch, Karrie Webb, Anika Sorensten, Jan Stephenson and Rachel Teske. What’s more, Robert Allenby and Stuart Appleby both launched their professional careers from their membership as amateurs at Yarra Yarra.

In February 2007, the multimillion dollar re-furbished clubhouse was opened. The first-class facilities ensure Yarra Yarra retains its standing as one of Melbourne’s leading prestigious private golf clubs.

By 1919, the basic design of the course was completed and little has changed since then. The course is in a natural bush setting and was declared a sanctuary for native game in 1925.

The present clubhouse was rebuilt after fire destroyed the old clubhouse in 1927. In 2010, it was renovated at a cost of over $8 million and is an outstanding example of Australian architecture. The clubhouse provides panoramic views of the golf course and hosts many member, golf and business events.

The Club has an incredible history in world golf and in 1954, perhaps one of the most remarkable feats in world golf occurred. VGC Club Members, Doug Bachli and Peter Thomson set the Club on the world stage when Bachli won the British Amateur Championship and Thomson won the first of his five British Open Championships. Both trophies sat side-by-side on the mantelpiece in the Members Bar. In recognition of this feat, and the contribution of these two great members to the game of golf, the Club named a room in their honour – the Bachli Thomson Room. Club member Geoff Ogilvy has also had recent international success, winning the 2006 US Open.

The clubhouse is regarded as one of the best in Australia and includes 15 twin-share accommodation rooms. The contribution of these houseguests to the ‘fabric’ of the Club is significant. The hospitality experiences offered by the Club are exceptional and the awe of first-time guests ensures that they become regular visitors to the Club.

As Peter Thomson said, ‘Some clubs have a special character that sets them apart. It is not necessarily the quality of the course, or the accommodations of the buildings that distinguishes them. It is more essentially the membership, past, and present, and the file of achievements over such a period of decades that creates such a tradition. Victoria Golf Club is such a club’.

Before starting work on the West Course design, MacKenzie asked for a listing of all members’ ages and handicaps, determined to make his course enjoyable for golfers of any ability. MacKenzie produced a masterpiece in the West Course during the short weeks he spent in Melbourne.

He then made club member and 1924 Australian Open champion Alex Russell his business partner. Subsequently, it was Russell who designed the East Course that opened in 1931.

From the 1930s, The Royal Melbourne Golf Club has been the preferred venue for the big tournaments including the Australian Open, the World Cup, Bicentennial Classic and The Presidents Cup. Since 1959 these events have been played on the Composite Course made up of six holes from Russell’s East Course and 12 from MacKenzie’s West.