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.
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22 Jul 2008
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1. leroy8888 | Rated
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11 Sep 2009
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I haven’t had the pleasure (yet) of playing the other two courses but I think people need to stop comparing this to it’s neighbours and give it the credit it is due. As a standalone course in Australia, it is simply unbelieveable. The condition of the fairway and greens is a testiment to the groundskeepers and I only wish they were working at my club.
Obviously a great course starts from the design and it truely is a challenge with several playing options on most holes to keep you thinking. And couple that with the nasty wind which was blowing during my round and you’d better bring your A-game along if you don’t want to spend most of the time looking for your ball in the rough.
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