State rankings

Best golf courses by state

Each course is ranked among its state's courses by the Golf List, then shown with where that puts it in Australia.

The top-ranked golf course in each Australian state
State	Best course	In Australia	Ranked courses
Victoria	Royal Melbourne (West)	#1	42
Tasmania	Cape Wickham	#3	8
New South Wales	New South Wales	#5	25
South Australia	Royal Adelaide	#11	7
Western Australia	Lake Karrinyup	#20	12
Queensland	Royal Queensland	T29	16
Australian Capital Territory	Royal Canberra (Westbourne)	#34	2

Victoria

42 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in Victoria
VIC	Course	Australia	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	1.20	1	2	1	1	1
2	2Kingston Heath	2	2.40	2	3	3	2	2
T3	T3Peninsula Kingswood (North)	T7	7.80	5	5	10	8	11
T3	T3Royal Melbourne (East)	T7	7.80	9	8	7	6	9
5	5Victoria	9	8.00	7	10	8	7	8

8 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in Tasmania
TAS	Course	Australia	Avg	Golf Digest 2026–27AGD ’26	Golf Digest 2024–25AGD ’24	Golf Australia 2026GA ’26	Golf Australia 2024GA ’24	Top100.com 2026T100 ’26
1	1Cape Wickham	3	2.60	3	1	2	3	4
2	2Barnbougle Dunes	4	4.20	6	4	4	4	3
3	3Barnbougle Lost Farm	6	6.40	8	7	5	5	7
4	4Seven Mile Beach	10	10.00	11	–	9	–	10
5	5Ocean Dunes	18	19.40	17	13	18	17	32

25 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in New South Wales
NSW	Course	Australia	Avg	Golf Digest 2026–27AGD ’26	Golf Digest 2024–25AGD ’24	Golf Australia 2026GA ’26	Golf Australia 2024GA ’24	Top100.com 2026T100 ’26
1	1New South Wales	5	6.20	4	6	6	10	5
2	2The Lakes	17	18.80	23	22	16	15	18
3	3Royal Sydney (Bay)	25	23.50	19	–	–	–	28
4	4The Australian	T31	30.80	25	20	36	31	42
5	5Newcastle	33	31.50	–	31	35	30	30

7 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in South Australia
SA	Course	Australia	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 Adelaide	11	10.80	10	9	12	11	12
2	2Kooyonga	23	22.80	21	18	24	26	25
3	3Glenelg	35	35.00	29	32	32	37	45
4	4Grange (West)	43	43.20	49	42	40	35	50
5	5Grange (East)	54	52.60	58	52	52	47	54

12 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in Western Australia
WA	Course	Australia	Avg	Golf Digest 2026–27AGD ’26	Golf Digest 2024–25AGD ’24	Golf Australia 2026GA ’26	Golf Australia 2024GA ’24	Top100.com 2026T100 ’26
1	1Lake Karrinyup	20	21.60	22	17	22	21	26
2	2Joondalup (Quarry/Dune)	37	36.00	30	21	46	39	44
3	3Links Kennedy Bay	T38	39.00	40	–	38	–	39
4	4The Cut	50	49.20	42	38	62	58	46
5	5Mount Lawley	58	55.67	37	–	30	–	100

16 ranked courses, top 5 shown

Top golf courses in Queensland
QLD	Course	Australia	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 Queensland	T29	29.00	35	28	26	23	33
2	2Brookwater	41	42.00	43	41	47	41	38
3	3Hamilton Island	44	44.00	38	30	44	46	62
4	4The Grand	52	52.00	47	37	64	60	52
5	5Sanctuary Cove (Pines)	55	53.80	44	40	63	59	63

2 ranked courses

Top golf courses in Australian Capital Territory
ACT	Course	Australia	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 Canberra (Westbourne)	34	33.20	33	29	41	36	27
2	2The Federal	T101	89.00	83	89	95	91	87