National Golf Club (Ocean)
Mornington/Bellarine, VIC | User Rating: 
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The National Golf Club is a 54 hole private members golf club, providing three distinct golfing challenges (Old Course, Moonah Course and Ocean Course). The three courses have been designed by three of the world’s leading golf architects – Greg Norman, Robert Trent Jones Jr and Peter Thomson. As such each of the courses, although located very closely to one another, offer the golfer a range of golfing experiences.
The Ocean Course, which opened for play on December 26, 2000, is a classic Thomson, Wolveridge and Perrett design. Many Thomson courses include links style pot bunkers placed strategically in the middle of fairways tempting the golfer to go for it or lay up. The Ocean is no exception and many of the green surrounds also are framed by this style of bunker. The course is a gentler test than the Moonah with a number of short par 4’s but still has its fair share of tougher holes.
The National, located on the Mornington Peninsula approximately 80 minutes from the city of Melbourne, is a must play for any keen golfer.
1. MrNoisy | Rated
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22 Jul 2008
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The poor cousin down at The National is just that. Yes there are some great holes on the course, 1 i think is a great hole, i know most will disagree, 7,8 11,13 all good holes 17 is interesting and 18, well there aren’t to many tougher closing holes around. 440ish from the back tees, into the prevailing wind, just nasty. Tight off the tee. If the ocean was a stand alone course it would be spoken more highly of, just the fact that the Moonah and the Old courses share the grounds detracts from it. Overall a nice course just brutal in the wind. Play the Moonah and Old first though.