The Dunes Golf Links - Australia
The Dunes Golf Links is a public course on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, with fairways
splashed across ruddy native grasses and sandy
wastes. The course owes its creation to the
financial distress of the Limestone Valley Golf
Club, a basic course that previously occupied the
site. When that course was put up for sale, one of
the creditors, Duncan Andrews, came to view the
property on a whim. He was so taken by the natural
beauty of the setting that he decided to purchase it
himself Andrews brought in Australian designer Tony
Cashmore to undertake a complete overhaul of the
site. Cashmore sculpted an authentic links with a
bold palette of colors, creating many of the natural
looking features from scratch. The Dunes is both
visually striking and very playable, making it one
of Australia's top public courses.
National Golf Club (Moonah Course) - Australia
The Moonah Course
at the National Golf Club, which opened in 2000,
is a breathtaking links that swoops across the
sweeping folds of the seaside farmlands and sand
dunes of Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. With
its broad fairways and swaths of native grasses,
framed by the jagged ridges of the Bass Strait
Dunes near
Gunamatta Beach, the course is an Australian
original. Designed by golf's Great White Shark, Greg
Norman, Moonah is one of three courses at the
National Golf Club. The original Robert Trent
Jones, Jr. course overlooks the Cape Schanck hills,
and is now known as the Old Course. The Ocean
Course, which also opened in 2000, was designed by
Peter Thomson and Michael Wolveridge. The Moonah
Course takes its name from the native moonah trees
studded across the countryside, which can grow to be
1,000 years old.
The Dunes Golf Links and
National Golf Club (Moonah Course), Australia
