Ellerston Golf Course

Ellerston,

nr Scone, New South Wales

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About the course

  • The Course:

    18 holes. Open links-style. Undulating terrain - several slopes to climb (and long green-to-tee walks).

  • Surroundings:

    Rolling bushland.

  • Designer:

    Greg Norman Golf Course Design (lead designer Bob Harrison).

Back
tees
Club
tees
Front
tees
Metres
6602
Par
72
SSS or slope

Location

Latitude:

-31.807177

Longitude:

151.299355

How to get there:

220 km NW of Newcastle.

Ellerston Golf Course

Private: A course for members and their invited guests only.

Est. 2001

Ellerston Golf Course: hidden away in the secluded high country of the Upper Hunter, the ultra exclusive Ellerston golf course remains the very private "playground" of one of Australia’s wealthiest families, the Packers.

Founder Kerry Packer's instructions to Australian golfing superstar and course designer Greg Norman were unequivocal. "Build me the toughest and most spectacular golf course in Australia". One imagines budgetary considerations took a back seat, as Norman set about designing a world-class course.

In every respect, from the superb and challenging design, faultless day-to-day conditioning, and sheer golfing exhilaration, Ellerston is (they say) a world-beater. But who's to know, except an elite few who have played there.

The majority of holes are laid out along a dramatic and fast-running stream (Pages Creek). Others meander into and through the spectacular and undulating terrain of the upland country. Beyond the course, the pristine rolling hills of the Upper Hunter play their very scenic part in this fabulous but very private project.

List of courses: Hunter Valley, Aus

Visitors

Who can play and when?

Private course, reserved exclusively for the owners and their invited guests.

Green fees

Outside visitor fee not applicable; private course for the owners and their guests.

Practice facilities

Good

Did you know?

Ellerston was conceived by the late Kerry Packer (1937-2005) as an exclusive and world-class golf (and polo) facility for his family and invited guests. Kerry Packer, son of Australian media proprietor Sir Frank Packer, became one of Australia's most powerful media tycoons and, in his time, the richest man in Australia.

Beyond his media interests, Packer was best known for founding World Series Cricket, which helped transform and modernise the game, but at the time was considered an affront to the cricketing establishment and its controlling bodies.

Published ranking

World's former 83rd best course (GOLF Magazine, 2021/22; not in latest edition of this ranking).

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