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Australia is a large and diverse continent. Its golf courses are just as diverse, offering spectacular world-class layouts amidst jaw dropping scenery and typical Australian hospitality, making the land down-under the perfect destination for a world class golf trip.

Golf is Australia’s number one participant sport and more than 460,000 Aussies belong to a golf club. 1.3 million people or approximately 10% of the adult Australian population play golf. With more than 1,800 golf courses to choose from, the variety is staggering. Given the fact that this is such a huge country it’s quite amazing that the best Australian golf courses can be found in one small area of Melbourne, known simply as the Sand Belt.

There are several claims for the earliest golf played in Australia. To date there is only one claim with contemporaneous evidence. This primary source evidence comes from ten entries in 1839 in the diary of Alexander Brodie Spark. These show that golf was played in 1839 at Grose Farm, which is now part of urban Sydney. Spark and his friends instituted the New South Wales Golf Club on the 1st of June 1839. The NSW Golf Cluband Grose Farm are the first golf club and first golf course in Australia. The oldest continuous surviving club is believed to be The Australian Golf Club in Sydney. The members met as an informal club in 1882/83 and the Club was formally constituted in 1884, but the Club lost its home course from 1888 to 1895.

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