{"id":46082,"date":"2026-08-04T05:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46082\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T05:13:26","slug":"top-7-golf-courses-in-south-australia-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/46082\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 7 golf courses in South Australia \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              August 4th, 2026                <\/p>\n<p>\n                By Australian Golf Digest              <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Australia\u2019s golf heritage centres on Adelaide\u2019s own sandbelt, home to some of the country\u2019s most decorated championship layouts. Here\u2019s the definitive ranking of South Australia\u2019s top 10 golf courses, according to Australian Golf Digest\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/top-100-courses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Top 100 Courses<\/a> panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Royal Adelaide Golf Club \u2014 No.10 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: Tapleys Hill Road, Seaton, Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The grand dame of South Australian golf, renowned for its Character. Dr Alister MacKenzie\u2019s design work remains one of the finest in the country, having hosted multiple Australian Opens, with panellists describing it as a club you could play solely for the rest of your life.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/10-royal-adelaide-1-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150711\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Kooyonga Golf Club \u2014 No.21 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: May Terrace, Lockleys, Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Renowned for its Conditioning, Kooyonga sparkled as host of this year\u2019s Women\u2019s Australian Open and is set to welcome LIV Golf Adelaide next year. It ranks eighth nationally for Conditioning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/21-kooyonga-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150712\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Glenelg Golf Club \u2014 No.29 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: Novar Gardens, Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Achieving its highest ranking yet on the back of a redesign under Neil Crafter, Ryan Van Der Veen and Bob Tuohy. Renowned for its Shot Options, the reopened layout drew nearly 20 panellist visits during the summer alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Grange Golf Club (West) \u2014 No.49 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: White Sands Drive, Grange, Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authoring a ninth consecutive placing in the 40s, the West course is renowned for its Conditioning. Its overall scores continue to be buoyed by excellence in the potent Shot Options, Challenge and Conditioning combination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Grange Golf Club (East) \u2014 No.58 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: White Sands Drive, Grange, Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East course doesn\u2019t live in the shadow of its sister layout, renowned for its Conditioning and polling favourably across all seven judging criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 Links Lady Bay \u2014 No.69 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: Normanville, Fleurieu Peninsula<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A windswept course overlooking South Australia\u2019s Gulf St Vincent, renowned for its Shot Options. Its future could brighten further once the new course on nearby Kangaroo Island opens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LinksLadyBay_01Side_5589-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150713\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7 Mount Compass Golf Course \u2014 No.79 overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Location: Mount Compass, Fleurieu Peninsula<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the ranking\u2019s most dependable courses, renowned for its Distinctiveness. Once known as Fleurieu, Mount Compass boasts a spread of only 0.31 points across all seven judging criteria, making it popular through whichever lens it\u2019s viewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Want to see how the rest of the country stacks up? Check out the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/australias-top-100-golf-courses-2026-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> full Top 100 Courses ranking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 4th, 2026 By Australian Golf Digest South Australia\u2019s golf heritage centres on Adelaide\u2019s own sandbelt, home to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18134,44,18135,1417,18136,54,18137,18138,13736],"class_list":["post-46082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-glenelg","tag-golf","tag-grange-golf-club","tag-kooyonga","tag-links-lady-bay","tag-news","tag-royal-adelaide","tag-south-australia-golf-courses","tag-top-100-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}