The Melbourne Sandbelt is Australia's most celebrated cluster of heathland golf — a stretch of rolling terrain south-east of the city where Alister MacKenzie, Alex Russell, and their contemporaries shaped courses that rank among the finest in the world. Our consensus table shows where each Sandbelt course sits across five independent published lists.
Rankings aggregated from five published lists (2024–2026). See our methodology.
| Course Name | Golf Digest 2026–27 | Golf Digest 2024–25 | Golf Australia 2026 | Golf Australia 2024 | Top100.com 2026 | Golf List |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Melbourne (West) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 Average: 1.20 |
| Kingston Heath | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 Average: 2.40 |
| Royal Melbourne (East) | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | T7 Average: 7.80 |
| Victoria | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 9 Average: 8.00 |
| Metropolitan | 13 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 15 Average: 13.80 |
| Peninsula Kingswood (North) | 5 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 11 | T7 Average: 7.80 |
| Peninsula Kingswood (South) | 15 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 Average: 16.80 |
| Yarra Yarra | 28 | 27 | 17 | 16 | 22 | 22 Average: 22.00 |
| Commonwealth | 24 | - | 25 | - | 19 | 23 Average: 22.67 |
| Woodlands | 32 | 24 | 27 | 24 | 20 | 28 Average: 25.40 |
| Huntingdale | 18 | - | - | - | 71 | 47 Average: 44.50 |