1. Richie_Hornsby | Rated | 06 Jan 2008 | Add A Review

Fantastic course, beautiful condition and although the wind was a bit frightening it did reward several shots. Would definately come back here.

PROS

• Best condition course in Sydney that I have seen.
• Fantasic value for money
• The view of some of the runners

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2. Blackers | Rated | 03 Dec 2007 | Add A Review

For a public course Long Reef is in impeccable condition and it was nice to play a links style course. In the wind however this course is a nightmare for players who get any sort of loft.

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• Avondale Golf Club

3. quasimodo | Rated | 07 Jul 2007 | Add A Review

This course is unreal, I really enjoyed my round here. I agree with everyone else with the best public course around. Views are good, pro shop was friendly, course was in good condition. I will come back here anytime.

4. gomdol | Rated | 04 Oct 2006 | Add A Review

I think this is an excellent golf course.

It has that wonderful links layout with great views out to the beaches and sea. But don't be fooled by the open nature of the course. Not too many trees but the swamps and ditches with the red stakes eat your balls for breakfast.

Yes and my friend was complaining it was too hot and a nice breeze would do nicely. By the fourth hole we were introduced to the brutal nature of links golf...wind.

Thoroughly enjoyable.

5. badboy | Rated | 29 Jun 2006 | Add A Review

A very nice course indeed.

The front nine, in my opinion, is definitely more difficult than the back nine - the opening hole being particularly testing on a chilly early morning!

Played here last weekend and the course was in great condition.

The best public access course I have played on in Sydney - beats Mona Vale (just up the road).

6. kitkat | Rated | 04 Apr 2006 | Add A Review

Where else in the world can you play on such top quality links type golf course for $35? Yes the course was easy but the conditions were very benign. Greens were fast and true. The views are magnificent.

7. spider1 | Rated | 22 Mar 2006 | Add A Review

Long Reef is one of the best true links challenges in Sydney, add a bit of wind and it will test even the best players. The course is usually in great shape and the greens are true and usually pretty quick.

Not sure what kjgreen is on about...Ok you had a bad experience, doesn't mean the course is anything but one of Sydney's best public access courses.

Give Long Reef a go, pretty good value for money as well.

8. pjl | Rated | 06 Oct 2005 | Add A Review

im a solid guy you know.

a good 85 kilos, short build. but walking UP the 8th fairway was probably the biggest struggle of my golfing career.

other that the wind and unprotected tees.

the course is magnificent. better than 99%of public courses in sydney.

would reccoment to all people who have som sense of aim and precission...oh and did i mention WIND??? yes.

this is the closest i have come to a 5 star. on this site...but just couldnt go the distance.

9. kywong73 | Rated | 27 Jul 2004 | Add A Review

Long Reef is a spectacular links course that juts right out into the Pacific. Wind direction and strength changes the nature of the course quite dramatically. For example, the par 4 14th is a birdie chance when an easterly is blowing. Play into into a strong sou-wester though, and you'll do well to get a bogie!

There's a bit of water on the course (in play on the 5th and 6th especially), and more than a few bunkers. The wind is the major hazard however...

Of course, golfers like kjgreen may also be a hazard, since there are NO tee positions at Long Reef where you should hit anywhere near an adjacent green. If you hit at 45 degrees to the line of the fairway however...

10. seanny | Rated | 23 Jul 2004 | Add A Review

KJgreen shoudl realise that long reef is a links corse and as such, should stop whining. "never been so scared on a course" beat it! I take it you still get frightened when Mum turns the light out and says good night.

I played Long Reef and think it to be one of the best courses in Sydney. No need to travel all the way to Troon, just up Pittwater Rd.

Great layout, great views, great greens great golf. KJgreen, beat it!

11. kjgreen | Rated | 07 May 2004 | Add A Review

We got to play long reef in a members only comp day as our course was holding a tournament and I have never been so scared on a golf course in my life, all we heard all day was FORE and as we stood on the 8th tee we heard it yet again and I ducked in time to see a ball fly past me and straight into my playing partners head, 4 external and 6 internal stitches later he is ok but the course layout is one which just begs for someone to get hit your teeing off in places that go almost right across a neighbouring green, the only saving grace on the day was it was not windy at all, it is so open and unprotected from the wind that it would be a shooting gallery if the wind blew and this was a members day not just your average open day, will never play again and will never recomend anyone else play there.

12. bennyonacid | Rated | 24 Feb 2004 | Add A Review

Location, location, location. That's what Deborah Hutton would say if she was playing here.

Long Reef is all about the views. Set on the headland between Dee Why and Long Reef beaches, the course offers golfers panoramic views from Manly's North Head in the South, up past the Hawksbury River inlet to the North.

The course usually holds up well despite the traffic it absorbs, and the greens, whilst a little lumpy in places, are nonetheless well maintained.

The amount of visitors to the course can sometimes be an issue - getting a tee off time at the weekend occasionally poses a problem. But then this is Sydney.

If you're planning a visit, go for a full round of 18 holes as the back 9 will offer you the best vistas.

Dress rules are very strict and you will be expected to adhere to them here. So don't make the trek to the course from the Western Suburbs without checking your attire first - you will be required to make an unexpected purchase from the Pro-Shop otherwise.

Additionally, and to curb post-round hunger, the best pie shop on the Northern Beches is located just outside the course.

13. genericguy | Rated | 27 Feb 2003 | Add A Review

I played Long Reef G.C for the first time today, and was more than pleasantly surprised.

Undulating fairways and some interesting bunkering.

Greens were fairly bumpy, with no signs of recent airating; which was the only thing that detracted from the course.

Absolutely fantastic views...