Mollymook Golf Club (Hilltop)

Mollymook Golf Club sits on the South Coast of New South Wales, about 3 hours south of Sydney, in one of the most naturally beautiful stretches of the Australian coastline. The club actually operates 2 courses, and the Hilltop layout lives up to its name — perched above the township of Mollymook Beach, it offers sweeping views across the Tasman Sea and the surrounding bush-covered headlands that the flat Lakeside course simply cannot match.

The Hilltop course has earned a genuine reputation as one of the stronger regional layouts in New South Wales, attracting golfers who make the drive down the Princes Highway specifically to play it. The terrain rolls and pitches in ways that demand shot-shaping and course management, and the native bush that lines the fairways means wayward drives are genuinely punished. Several holes play across or along ridgelines where the ocean backdrop becomes an active distraction.

Mollymook township itself is a relaxed, unhurried place popular with Sydney weekenders, surfers, and retirees — the golf fits that character. This is unpretentious, honest golf in spectacular surroundings, the kind of experience regional Australia does particularly well.