THE JUDGING PANEL

Each of the judges, drawn from the large pool of loyal Golf Australia readers, was given specific guidelines about how to rank courses and they could only rank courses they had seen since December 2016.

1. Brendan James

2. Joe Thomas

3. Hamish Walker

4. Felicity Chapman

5. Susan Johnson

6. Jacqui Lee

7. Steven Jackson

8. Jamie Walsh

9. Norman Greenfield

10. Joseph Baker

11. Nikki Scott

12. Daniel O’Keefe

13. Matthew Greig

14. Deborah Hill

15. Sandra Lyons

16. Ellen Wilson

17. Chris Davidson

18. Phillip Nicholls

19. Toby McCracken

20. Danny Jenkins

21. Richard O’Reilly

22. Christian Harris

23. John Blackwell

24. Scott Matthews

25. Graham Brady

26. Ken Robinson

27. Nicole Robinson

28. Jillian Smith

29. Tony Brown

30. Harley McMahon

31. Geoff Smart

32. Nathan Burgess