Belmont Golf Club

Lake Macquarie is one of Australia's largest coastal saltwater lakes, and the communities that ring its shores have a quiet, unhurried character that sits somewhere between working-class Newcastle and the holiday beaches of the Central Coast. Marks Point occupies a low-lying finger of land on the lake's eastern edge, and Belmont Golf Club has long been part of the local sporting fabric here — the kind of member-owned club that generations of Hunter Valley golfers have called their home track.

The lakeside setting shapes the experience considerably. Flat to gently undulating terrain, coastal vegetation, and the ever-present proximity to water mean that wind off Lake Macquarie can turn a straightforward round into something more demanding. Conditions shift quickly in this part of coastal New South Wales, and local knowledge counts.

As a community club in a region that takes its golf seriously — Newcastle and the Hunter have produced more than a few professional players over the years — Belmont offers the kind of genuine, unpretentious golf that remains the backbone of the Australian game.