Great Golf Books

Great Golf Courses of the World is a high quality panoramic coffee table book featuring spectacular imagery from over 100 courses in 20 countries around the world.

The publication showcases the best of golf around the world outside the USA with spectacular imagery captured by acclaimed and award-winning golf course photographer Gary Lisbon.

Great Golf Courses of the World features over 400 images – many which have never before been published. To aid the reader’s navigation, Great Golf Courses of the World groups courses into both regions and countries, each section commencing with an informational piece and location map.

The panoramic format of the book is unique and showcases images in the most appealing manner.

The photographic representation is broad – from the Northern Lights and Land of the Midnight Sun in Norway – to the dry, hard and firm links courses of the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Australia’s famous Melbourne Sandbelt region is featured in all its glory as are the contemporary and truly spectacular New Zealand beachside courses.

Mainland Europe is highlighted with representation from France, Spain, The Netherlands and Portugal whilst the beauty of Scandinavia is fully on show with imagery from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

South Africa and Mauritius represent the climes of this region and from Asia the best from South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and China are also featured.

Great Golf Courses of the World provides a worldwide golfing journey from the comfort of your living room. Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt presents an intimate and contemporary portrait of one of the world's greatest golfing regions — eight clubs, ten courses, and a stretch of sandy, fast-draining soil in the southeastern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, that has produced a concentration of world-class golf unmatched anywhere on the planet.

With the majority of images captured in 2026, acclaimed golf course photographer Gary Lisbon has succeeded in documenting the Melbourne Sandbelt at the peak of its beauty and conditioning. Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt features over 210 images — ground-level and aerial — spanning all ten courses across the eight clubs. Royal Melbourne's East and West Courses, Kingston Heath, Metropolitan, Victoria, Yarra Yarra, Commonwealth, Huntingdale, and Peninsula Kingswood's North and South Courses are each presented in full, with photography that captures the distinctive character, strategic brilliance, and natural beauty that have made the Sandbelt famous the world over.

To enrich the visual journey, each club is accompanied by original artwork from illustrator Daniel Hille, whose detailed clubhouse renderings and course maps bring an additional layer of depth and context to the story of each layout. Essays contributed by respected members of each club add a personal and historical dimension, offering readers a genuine insight into what it means to call one of these remarkable clubs home.

A foreword by Geoff Ogilvy, major champion, product of the Melbourne Sandbelt, and one of the finest golfers this country has produced, sets the tone for a book that is as much a celebration of place as it is a work of photography.

Whether you are a member of one of these celebrated clubs, a golfer who has had the privilege of playing on the Sandbelt, or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of great golf courses, Great Golf on the Melbourne Sandbelt offers an unparalleled window into a region that has no equal.