Guide
Melbourne Sandbelt Golf Courses
The Melbourne Sandbelt is Australia's most celebrated cluster of heathland golf — a stretch of rolling terrain south-east of the city where Alister MacKenzie, Alex Russell, and their contemporaries shaped courses that rank among the finest in the world. Our consensus table shows where each Sandbelt course sits across five independent published lists.
- Courses ranked
- 11
- In Australia's top 20
- 7
- In the top 50
- 11
- Average national rank
- 16
| Golf List | Course | Avg | Golf Digest 2026–27AGD ’26 | Golf Digest 2024–25AGD ’24 | Golf Australia 2026GA ’26 | Golf Australia 2024GA ’24 | Top100.com 2026T100 ’26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1Royal Melbourne (West) | 1.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2Kingston Heath | 2.40 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| T7 | T7Royal Melbourne (East) | 7.80 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 |
| 9 | 9Victoria | 8.00 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 |
| 14 | 14Metropolitan | 13.80 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 16 |
| T7 | T7Peninsula Kingswood (North) | 7.80 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 11 |
| 15 | 15Peninsula Kingswood (South) | 16.80 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 |
| 21 | 21Yarra Yarra | 22.00 | 28 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 |
| 22 | 22Commonwealth | 22.67 | 24 | – | 25 | – | 19 |
| 27 | 27Woodlands | 25.40 | 32 | 24 | 27 | 24 | 20 |
| 46 | 46Huntingdale | 44.50 | 18 | – | – | – | 71 |
Golf List positions are national. Based on 5 lists; see the methodology.
The lists disagree most about Yarra Yarra, placed from 16 to 28.
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Frequently asked questions
- Which is the highest-ranked course in this guide?
- Royal Melbourne (West) is the highest-ranked, at #1 in Australia on The Golf List.
- How are these courses ranked?
- By the mean of each course's position across 5 published lists (Golf Digest 2026–27, Golf Digest 2024–25, Golf Australia 2026, Golf Australia 2024, Top100.com 2026), lowest first. Every source position is shown in the table.
- How many of these courses are in Australia's top 20?
- 7 of the 11 courses listed are in the Golf List top 20, and 11 are in the top 50.