Nomadic_golfer : 2020 Summary – Holes
All-Star 18
After playing 100 different courses in 2020, I have pulled together my ‘All-Star 18″. It is the compilation of my favourite holes by hole number, from the 100 courses I played, ie favourite 1st hole, 2nd hole etc. I have produced a 2nd place and an honorable mentions field. Some number holes had multiple contenders (14-16 for eg) yet some had just 2 that stood out. It is a good mix of iconic holes (The National’s par 3 7th on The Old, Royal Adelaide’s 3rd and 14th, of which the latter was named in Golf Magazine’s best 100 holes in the world in 2020) and country bolters (Tenterfield’s 12th, Gundagai’s 15th, Junee 17th). The conditioning of the respective courses hasn’t had much impact on my choices here.
| Hole | Best | 2nd | Honorable Mentions |
| 1 | Royal Canberra 361m par4 (Brindabella 1st) | Victor Harbor 402m par4 | |
| 2 | Gunnamatta, Nat’l 286m par4 | Crescent Head 105m par3 | Tathra 501m par5 |
| 3 | Royal Adelaide 269m par4 | The Old, National 367m par4 | Victor Harbor 150m par3 |
| 4 | Tallwoods 318m par4 | Casino 338m par4 | |
| 5 | Murwillumbah 505m par5 | Long Island, National 461m par5 | |
| 6 | Loxton 500m par5 | Harden 268m par4 | Longyard 161m par3 |
| 7 | The Old, National 121m par3 | Grafton 379m par4 | |
| 8 | Sawtell 495m par5 | Junee 155m par3 | Wentworth, Orange 468m par5 Mallacoota 404m 4 |
| 9 | Mt Broughton 494m par5 | Wagga City 172m par3 | Coomealla 407m par4 |
| Hole | Best | 2nd | Honorable Mentions |
| 10 | Ocean Shores 364m par4 | Inverell 546m par5 | Coffs Harbor 371m par4 |
| 11 | Gold Creek 389m par4 | Royal Adelaide 353m par4 | Federal 331m par4 |
| 12 | Tenterfied 384m par4 | Bonville 404m par4 | |
| 13 | Bairnsdale 503m par5 | Glen Innes 506m par5 | Mt Broughton 359m 4 Byron Bay 493m 5 |
| 14 | Royal Adelaide 382m par4 | MacLean 463m par5 | Federal 374m par4 |
| 15 | Gundagai 390m par4 | Long Island 378m par4 | Duntryleague 374m 4 Barmera 337m 4 Murray Downs 163m 3 Tuncurry 475m par5 |
| 16 | Shelly Beach 300m par4 | Leongatha 146m par3 | Nambucca 385m par4 Young 178m par3 |
| 17 | Junee 379m par4 | Tumut 131m par3 | Gunnamatta 269m par4 Duntryleague 154m par3 |
| 18 | Riverside Mildura 146m par3 | Kooindah Waters 382m par4 | Moss Vale 379m par4 |
All-star front 9 photo’s clockwise, from left to right by row: Royal Canberra’s Brindabella course’s 1st hole from the tee, the green complex from directly in front of Royal Adelaide’s short par 4 3rd, Tallwood’s steep downhill, short par 4 4th hole from the tee; and the last 100m of Sawtell’s left sweeping par 5 8th.
Back 9 photo’s below, from left to right in hole order: the last 60m of Ocean Shores’ 10th after turning right at the corner and flattening out; the approach to the diagonal green on Gold Creek’s 11th from the ’saddle’ 150m out; Tenterfield’s 12th once you walk over the brow following a blind tee shot; Bairnsdale’s spectacular par 5 13th from behind the green, in front of Lake King; the green complex at Royal Adelaide’s 14th named in the world’s top 100 holes (credit royaladelaidegolf.com.au for the photo); what the 2nd shot has in store on Gundagai’s long par 4 15th, Shelly Beach’s short par 4 16th in it’s entirety; the tee shot at Junee’s 17th with the rocky outcrop to the right of the fairway just visible in the middle of the photo; and a rear view of the stadium-like finishing par 3 at Riverside, Mildura.
