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Prepare yourself for the very best of what Australian golf has to offer. Experience the highly regarded Melbourne Sandbelt with courses like Royal Melbourne, Kingston Heath and Metropolitan. From there you’ll enter isolation and discover four courses that will make you feel like you’re playing the links of Ireland or Scotland.
When to go: November - April
Price: From AUD$6,800 pp
Ideal length: 4 - 8 days
GOLF COURSES
Ocean Dunes incorporates a challenging 18-hole course, set amidst rolling dunes, and features unsurpassed views along two kilometres of majestic, King Island coastline – land made for golf, and reminiscent of the links of Scotland and Ireland. With 360-degree ocean views on nearly every hole, highlights include two spectacular par 3's that cross the surging ocean, plus a number of exciting, risk-and-reward, short par 4's. The 'inland' holes follow the coastal creek that flows through the course.
Location: Currie, King Island
Designed by renowned US golf architect, Mike DeVries, Cape Wickham sits on a magnificent piece of coastal land at the far North Western tip of King Island, in the windswept waters of Bass Strait. The course is gently undulating and interspersed with giant sand dunes and ridges, and has already captured the attention of international golf writers, with one recent review commenting... “Add jaw-dropping vistas into the mix and, for golfing purists, this surely ranks among the most important courses to have opened in living memory.“
Location: Cape Wickham, King Island
Rated the #2 Golf Course in Australia by Australian Golf Magazine (2013) and #11 in the World by U.S. Golf Digest, Barnbougle Dunes, is a links course unlike any other in Australia, or the world. The elder of the two courses at Barnbougle, The Dunes is a spectacular example of traditional links golf that meanders along Tasmania’s dramatic North East coast – it’s where breathtaking scenery and thrilling golf truly come together.
Location: Bridport, Tasmania
Just a short pitching wedge across the river from The Dunes, lies Barnbougle’s second golf course – Lost Farm. Despite Lost Farm’s close proximity to The Dunes, it is remarkably different, featuring 20 holes that wind along the coast and through the coastal dunes. Ranked as the #2 public course in Australia by Golf Australia Magazine, and #23 in the World by US Golf Digest, the Lost Farm course is an exciting challenge for golfers of all levels of experience.
Location: Bridport, Tasmania
Kingston Heath is one of Australia's best golf courses and consistently ranks in the top 50 courses in the world. The course is renowned for its natural approaches created by its superbly crafted greens and stupendous bunkering. The combination of this ageless design has helped Kingston Heath remain a supreme test of one’s golfing smarts. In 2010 it was rated by Australian Golf Digest as the premier course in Australia, qualifying it as the most outstanding course in terms of layout, shot making, condition and strategy. It is also the preferred Australian venue of the R&A for the staging of International Final Qualifying for The Open Championship, held each year in January.
Location: Moorabbin, Melbourne
The origins of Royal Melbourne date back to 1891 when a group of prominent Melbournians formally introduced the Royal and Ancient game to Victoria by establishing the Melbourne Golf Club on leased land near an inner-city railway station. As urban encroachment threatened, the search for a permanent home brought the club to the heathland scrub of Sandringham in the city's south. What they uncovered among the undulating sand dunes was the ideal location for their new links. Much has been written on the qualities of its West Course but put simply it is the combination of great land, great design and great construction. Indeed it is certainly hard to imagine that the game of golf gets any better than Royal Melbourne.
Location: Moorabbin, Melbourne
Tucked away quietly in Melbourne’s southeast, just fifteen minutes from the CBD, The Metropolitan Golf Club is one of the renowned Sandbelt courses and for almost a century has been regarded as one of the finest championship courses in Australia. Over the years the course has moved with the demands of the times and staged its first Australian Open in 1930, after modifications suggested by the famous Scottish course architect Dr Alister MacKenzie in 1926. With magnificent plantings and some of the purest couch fairways and bent grass greens on the planet, a round at Metro is an exceptional experience. The Metropolitan Golf Club was the host of the 2014 Australian Masters.
Location: Moorabbin, Melbourne
Tom Doak has found a beautiful relationship between the coastal landscapes of Australia and the lush, rolling hills of Scotland and Ireland, and his ability to build world renowned links style courses down under is amazing for golfers of all abilities. Located on the Mornington Peninsula outside of Melbourne, Doak designed St. Andrews Beach around the same time he was developing Barnbougle Dunes and has perfected the links style golf in an Australian coastal climate. Since 2009, St. Andrews Beach has maintained its position as one of the country's premier golf courses. With plenty of holes that require a "don't hit it there" attitude, it is easy to see why this course requires concentration on every hole. Although most links courses play different depending on the wind, the natural landscape of St. Andrews Beach offers protection through valleys and trees.
Location: Cape Schanck, Victoria
ACCOMMODATIONS
Lost Farm Lodge provides a stylish accommodation option for those looking to wake up right on its namesake golf course, with each suite only a short stroll to the Lodge Restaurant, Spa, Clubhouse and first tee. Lost Farm Lodge offers two types of luxury accommodation – Single and Double Queen Suites. These open plan, hotel-style rooms provide a choice of views, with the Ocean View Room or the Course View Room looking out across Anderson Bay and the Lost Farm Golf Course, respectively.
Cape Wickham has recently developed 16 deluxe rooms on their coastal property. These superb north facing views over Victoria Cove Beach, Cape Wickham Lighthouse or the Golf Course. Each room contains, 2 king single beds, ensuite, safe, fridge, TV, reverse cycle air-conditioning, wifi.
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When you think golf travel destinations, so often Scotland and Ireland are at the forefront of the conversation. But there’s a new kid on the block. Prepare to be enthralled by the share epic pieces of property that the top courses in NZ are located. Mix in world-class accommodation and a bucket load of unique localised experiences and you have yourself the golf trip of a lifetime.
Trek your way across this great country, playing some of the best courses in the world. Seven remarkable golf courses across three different states which all have their own unique flavour. From ocean wonders such as NSW GC to links heaven in Barnbougle, Tasmania and the widely heralded sandbelt courses in Melbourne. This is something special! This 14 day experience also includes fantastic local cuisine, and experiences across vastly different landscapes.
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