Ranking the world’s top 10 composite golf courses

Here are 10 of the best composite courses – and a couple honorable mentions – to host some of golf’s biggest events through the years.

Kingston Heath

Australian Open

The new-look 19th hole at Kingston Heath in Victoria, Australia. Photo by @kingston_heath.

This Australian Sandbelt gem formerly was the site of the Australian Masters and will reprise its role as host of the Australian Open in 2020. For tournament play the 10th hole, regarded as one of the best par 3s in all of Australia, if not golf, is replaced by the club’s 19th hole. The tee box for the 10th is used to lengthen the course’s 4thhole and while it may allow for better spectator movement (there’s usually a food station there), Ian Baker-Finch says it’s “sacrilege” not to play this great specimen of the beauty of short par 3s. However, it should be pointed out that its replacement is none too shabby and blends in well with the holes it is cozied up in between.

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