One of the most picturesque golf courses in Australia
Its location on Stuart Island, surrounded by the Nambucca River, creates a beautiful setting for a game. The par 69, 18-hole layout by Ross Watson is a challenge for skilled players and enjoyable for all golfers, featuring flat, easy walks on fairways lined with Sheoak and Paper Bark trees. Our bent grass greens are often called the best north of Newcastle due to decades of dedicated effort.

100 Years: From Goat Track to Championship Golf Layout at Nambucca
It’s been a remarkably bumpy ride to get to where we are now in 2026, the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Club’s centenary year. The passage of time has been something of a Groundhog Day – the resilience of volunteers, relocation and expansion and of course, disastrous floods.

An ace, an assassin and a president collide at Nambucca Heads golf course
A SMILING assassin and a gunshot president make uneasy bedfellows, but that’s how it played out at the Nambucca Heads Island Golf Course on Saturday.

Island Classic a crowded house for hopes and dreams at Nambucca Heads
THE WELCOMED wave of visitors in town for the 36-hole Island Classic at the weekend was powerful enough to stoke the already overheated immigration debate – but the locals more than held their own on the Nambucca Heads golf course.