SHORTPRICED FAVOURITE
Mollymook Golf Club has long been home to one of Australia’s favourite courses, an honour that was recognised last year when it was voted third in Australia’s 50 Favourite Courses for 2020 by readers of this magazine.
The picturesque Hilltop Course at Mollymook, found in the Shoalhaven region of NSW, is affectionately known as “The Ultimate Challenge” and is open to the public every day of the week. The layout is set in tranquil bushland – 220 kilometres south of Sydney – however waves from Mollymook Beach can be heard crashing throughout your round.
The Hilltop Course has, for the fourth consecutive year, risen in Golf Australia magazine’s Top-100 Public Access Courses and currently sits at No.68 after this year’s ranking was released in January.
Complementing the Hilltop Course is the nine-hole Beachside course, which plays 2,102 metres from the tips and meanders around Collers Beach inlet.
Green fees for the Hilltop Course start from $59 for 18 holes on weekdays and $69 on weekends. Visitors can play the Beachside course for $19 on weekdays or $25 on weekends.
For more information, visit the website www.mollymookgolf.com.au or call
(02) 4455 2055 (Hilltop).
There are few greater places to play golf in Australia than the spectacular Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, which is home to a plethora of Golf Australia magazine’s Top100 Public Access Courses.
One such course belongs to the Mornington Golf Club, located one hour’s drive south of Melbourne. The club made its debut in the aforementioned ranking in 2019 at No.84 and had risen an impressive 20 places to No.64 earlier this year, thanks to ongoing changes led by Ben Davey and Darius Oliver.
Mornington is one of the oldest clubs on the peninsula – having been established in 1904 – but it has probably never owned a layout that has played or looked as good as today’s offering. Don’t believe us? Go and check it out for yourself.
Green fees start from $55 for 18 holes on weekdays and $75 on weekends and public holidays. There is currently a waiting list for seven-day full memberships, but five- and six-day memberships are available.
For more information, visit the website www.morningtongolf.com.au or call (03) 5975 2784.
Coffs Harbour Golf Club has commissioned Craig Parry to complete a 27-hole masterplan for the course.
The NSW North Coast club – which had its Lake Course ranked at No.89 in Golf Australia magazine’s Top-100 Public Access Courses in the country earlier this year – is taking a decade long approach to major upgrades.
Parry recently spent time touring the course with course superintendent Justin Sheehan, taking photographs and notes, while pointing out areas of interest.
“What we’ve done is sort of just cosmetic stuff. We’ve put paths in, we’ve changed our fairways over to couch and we’ve put an irrigation system in,” Sheehan said.
“So, we’ve got the nuts and bolts there but we just need that next step and I think Craig can do that for us.
“Just tweaking all of the bunkers and the strategy of the golf course, it will be good. I think it will be a vast improvement.”
The design business of the former PGA and European Tour player has been busy in recent times. In the past two years, Parry has overseen the remodelling of greens and holes at Palm Beach, Cabramatta, Bayview and Wakehurst Golf Clubs in Sydney, as well as north coast courses Forster Tuncurry and Teven Valley.