Glenelg jumps to 29th in golf course rankings

We are pleased to announce that in the current January 2012 edition of Golf Australia magazine, Glenelg Golf Club has been ranked 29th in Australia.

Golf Australia Magazine previously ranked their top 50 course each year, but have expanded their rankings to a biennial top 100, in the same manner as Australian Golf Digest Magazine.

Glenelg ranked one spot higher than Grange West, and ahead of The Australian, Portsea, The Cut, Joondalup, The National (Ocean Course), Brookwater, Yarra Yarra, Huntingdale, Moonah Links (Open Course) and Royal Canberra.

Golf Australia Magazine commented “Adelaide’s Glenelg layout finished just outside the top 50 in 2010 but it jumped 23 places, more than any other course, to find a spot at No. 29.” 

Some of the other judges comments included:

“Glenelg is a fabulously maintained golf course with some fine par-3 holes and well-bunkered driving zones” – Cameron Howell

“The half-revetted bunkering throughout the course is a real feature, as is Glenelg’s approach to environmental and vegetation management” – James Bennett

“Glenelg is no longer the poor cousin on the Adelaide Sandbelt.  Neil Crafter’s re-design, highlighted by revetted bunkering, has given the course a great unique character” – David Elvins

Other Adelaide courses to fair in the rankings were Royal Adelaide (10th, out from 7th last year), Kooyonga (23rd, out from 12th last year), Grange West (30th, up from 37th last year) and Links Lady Bay (66th).  Grange East was not rated due to course works currently under way.

It will now be interesting to see where Glenelg will be ranked when Australian Golf Digest release their rankings in the March 2012 edition, due out in mid-February.  In the previous rankings in March 2010, Glenelg was rated 45th, up one from the 2008 rankings.

For more information, visit Golf Australia Magazine