in my opinion, there is no top 100 golf course in australia that isn’t worth playing at least once… views are definitely amazing there…

malvern said 1 and 2 crap, I thought they were okay… 3 is much worse… but the seaside holes do make it worthwhile…

So I guess that’s even more true for a consistently top 5 course, like NSW, then. First three holes are crap??? Every hole looks awesome on the NSW GC site… . So what’s in the gift bag thing they give visitors?

Keep it surreal folks.

I wouldn’t say there are any crap holes on a course thats well within the worlds top 100 (like Top 10 outside of the US).

3 is a belter of a hole, you just have to have played it a dozen or so (at least!) times to work out where you’re going! Tip, the line’s a lot further left off the tee than you could possibly imagine on your first go.

14 is the standout, possibly the best bunker less hole in world golf! I reckon the stretch from 13 to 16 is as good a four hole stretch as any.

Its a must play but I’m not sure with the ” any weather ” opinion. I drove down from the north coast for a game a few years back and it was raining when we left. I held out hope, forlornly as it turned out. the southerly was in

we hit off 10 and got through 10(protected by some dunes), 11,12 with a cross wind and survived with only having our buggies turned over ( on the cross axis of the wheel base mind you) 4 times in 3 holes. Got to 13 and once you turn the dog leg that was it. hit a full 6 iron (normally 150m) 80m into the green only to see it stop, turn around and blow back off the front of the green and about 30m back towards me. we went up and placed the balls on the green and still couldnt get them to stay put. Had to quit at that point.

I played it last year in about 50-60kmh south westerly. Hit a 3 hybrid ( normally 180m) off the front tee at 6 aiming it 50m left of the green after having watched a few other shots. It blew back on line but finished 20m short of the putting surface just over the ocean. pitched up and holed a 30 footer for one of the pars of my life.

any more wind than that would have been bordering unplayable in spots. A big southerly is unplayable in a lot of spots.

they talk about 6 as a signature but i love 5 and 14 the best

Its a must play course for sure, i have fond memories of my 1st game in a NSW schoolboys championship where I birdied the 1st hole then trebled the par 3 second hole, ended up with an 81 which I thought was great way back then.In top three of all the courses I have now played enjoy the experience….........

def worth playing regardless of weather….and use the back tee on the signature par 3 over the water!!

I certainly plan on walking the bridge on 6 – surely they won’t lynch me for it:). Wanna try play from members tees throughout – cheapens courses when they make social players play from tees that are heaps forward….sucks.

Keep it surreal folks.

Unless you break the visitor rules you won’t be playing off the members tees or plates….they have social front tees out mid-week.

All visitors to the club are allowed to play off the plates at 6… it’s a local “allowance” they have there..

... i have fond memories of my 1st game i… where I birdied the 1st hole then trebled the par 3 second hole, ended up with an 81 which I thought was great way back then.……......

thebeerman

It was. Most golfers still don’t break 100.

I played there last week… It’s definitely worth playing once. I’m making my way through the “Group 1” courses – I can honestly say I’d love to play at NSW over and over again if finances weren’t a consideration.

The gift bag… Screensaver CD, divot tool, logo socks, course guide and post card. The course guide comes in really handy!

I assume you’re already playing as I’m writing this but anyway… 3rd hole blind tee, huge dog leg left, aim further left than you think. 15th tee is as difficult a drive as any in the world, aiming for a narrow chute with a lost ball either side.

In terms of the tee placement I have to give them credit, they aren’t that so far forward that it ruins the round (I really hate having a 160m par 3 turn into a 110 par 3 because of the tee placements)

A bloke I know teed off on the first one day, holed out for for 6/1. That was the only point he scored all day!!

Bit of a wrap lads, for those who have me by posting here. Great conditions for NSW yesterday arvo – sunny, dry, and a little windy, but not too windy, given how it gets out there. The course is seriously, insanely awesome – I’d play it over, over, and over again if I had the dough. Conditioning is AWESOME, layout is AWESOME, views are AWESOME. The revetted pot bunkering is superb. I shot 7 over my 12 handicap, but loved it. Even after seeing so many photos of it, the view and feeling you get standing on the tee (and walking from tee to green) on 5 is sensational and jaw-dropping. From the tee, the crest of the fairway is just sitting there in the distance over all the scrub, gorgeous on the horizon with the blue of the ocean and then the sky as its backdrop. It almost looks like an island between the scrub and the ocean – this is the best driver-off-the-tee hole that I’ve played yet. And that feeling you get as you ‘re at the start of the fairway and it just goes up and up and up, then you get to the top and it all goes straight down to the ocean, is breath-taking – the degree to which that hole climbs and drops is amazing. Every golf fanatic seriously has to experience it for themselves. My drive trickled off the right side of fairway at top of crest, then I punched out of the sandy wasteland, PW into green and made the birdie putt. But then trundled over the bridge to the championship tee at the 6th tee and dumped one in the water:(.
Without the course guide first-timers would struggle, for sure. I’d wish I’d known that the fairway on 3 dropped so severely over that crest – I would’ve just bombed a driver down there if I’d known there was so much space, but I took a nancy 3W and pushed it right, left me with a 4-iron in. I was driving it better on back 9 and played 13 thru 18 one under my HC. Lovely holes those doglegs on 13, 15, 16. 15 is a daunting tee shot indeed, through the chute and up and over the hill. All in all, I couldn’t have had a better time of it at NSW and will definitely be back there again – might have to turn tricks to fund it, but it’s definitelly worth the $180. St Mick’s and NSW for the first time back to back in one day – I all but creamed myself.
The sad part is (I asked the pro shop) and there remains a 15-year waiting list for membership at NSW. I was talking with two old members there (lovely blokes), and they said NSW only had around 550 full members… . One of them one had been a member there since 1967! Might complete an application just for kicks…surely I can scrape together the bucks by 2028 when I’m in my mid-40s. Wonder if there’s any/many NSW members who are under 30….or even 40… . A former colleague of mine, over the last 20 years had held memberships at each of Royal Sydney, NSW, and The Australian (not simultaneously). He’s at RS now…

Forgot to say, the fact that you can get on to a course as amazing as NSW GC without knowing any members, or being guested, is unbelievable. Hell, I only booked my round 48hrs before I teed off – and I got to go round on my own, even having time to take a bunch of cool photos. I only got on at Royal Sydney cos a former colleague of mine is a member there and guested me. And I only got to play The Lakes cos I volunteered at The Open there back in Decemeber. But the fact that NSW is quite accessible (on weekdays) without the need to know someone there to get on the course, well that’s just awesome. Can’t overstate that…

Fuzzy, how could you leave 14 out of the memorable moments???

Fuzzy, how could you leave 14 out of the memorable moments???

Golf is not a game of perfect!

Hey mate,
14 was nice for sure, and interesting with the fairway undulation as well. I scored a regulation par with 2-iron off tee and 9-iron in. EVERY hole is a memorable moment, right? I could go on about that course forever! Love the view on 13 walking from fairway up to green – actually, the walk up to every hole is so lovely. The couch around the greens and pot bunkers is sooooooo smooth and gorgeous looking, and I love that subtle, blue-tinged green colour of the greens set again that crimson red colour of the flags.

Played it 1990s was 60 dollars or so back then.6th tee was roped off was off a bunny front tee.Our friends in front on the 6th green watched us jump the rope, and play back after they had hit off rabbit tee.Awesome hole from back there.Don`t know why it was roped off, no work being done.Worth 200 but no other course in Sydney worth that.Once is enough, luckily quite windy so was tough.3 or 4 holes in Pebble Beach`s class.