Royal Adelaide Golf Club - Australia

Golf in Adelaide dates back to 1870, but the original Adelaide Golf Club dissolved in 1876 and was not revived until 1892. The club moved in 1906 to its present site in the suburb of Seaton, less than two miles from the coast, with the course designed by Harry Swift and H.L. Rymill. Alister MacKenzie advised on the redesign of the course in 1926 while on his whirlwind tour of Australia, having been engaged to redesign Royal Melbourne. MacKenzie wrote of Royal Adelaide: "One finds a most delightful combination of sand dunes and fir trees, a most unusual combination even at the best seaside courses. No seaside courses that I have seen possess such magnificent sand craters as those at Royal Adelaide." Not all of MacKenzie's suggestions were adopted but his rerouting did bring the dunes more into play and prevented holes from being played across the railroad tracks. The sand hills clotted with pines and swamp oaks are magnificent and the deep, loamy pot bunkers are multitudinous. Royal Adelaide has hosted the Australian Open nine times, most recently in 1998.

Brookwater Golf Club - Australia

Brookwater Golf Club, located in Queensland southwest of Brisbane, is a dazzling layout designed by Australian golfing legend Greg Norman and his design partner Bob Harrison. Opened in 2002, Brookwater has the rippling fairways of a links-style seaside course, but it is set in a dense forest of ironbarks and tall, spindly golden eucalypts that pinch the narrow corridors of green. The undulating nature of the site allowed the designers to create the bold, whorled bunkers that echo the creations of the great Alister MacKenzie in the Melbourne sand belt. The course is the centerpiece of a planned development, with housing set back from the holes.