Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt presents an intimate, contemporary portrait of one of the world's greatest golfing regions — eight clubs, ten courses, and a stretch of sandy, fast-draining soil in Melbourne's southeast that has produced a concentration of world-class golf unmatched anywhere on the planet.

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With the majority of images captured in 2026, acclaimed golf photographer Gary Lisbon documents the Sandbelt at the peak of its beauty and conditioning.

 

Never have these courses collectively looked as good — the product of over a decade of faithful restoration by a new generation of architects honouring the original visions of Alister MacKenzie, Alex Russell, C.H. Alison and their contemporaries.

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The book features over 210 images, ground-level and aerial, spanning all ten courses: Royal Melbourne's East and West, Kingston Heath, Metropolitan, Victoria, Yarra Yarra, Commonwealth, Huntingdale, and Peninsula Kingswood's North and South.

 

Each is presented in full, capturing the distinctive character, strategic brilliance and natural beauty that have made the Sandbelt famous the world over.

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Each club is accompanied by original artwork from illustrator Daniel Hille, whose clubhouse renderings and course maps add depth and context, while essays from respected club members offer a personal insight into what it means to call these places home.

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A foreword by Geoff Ogilvy — major champion and product of the Sandbelt — sets the tone for a book that celebrates place as much as photography.