The Beach Course
The Beach Course: Tony Cashmore (2001). Par 72, 6,951 yards. Cameron John won the 2026 Vic Open here with 280 (−8).
The Beach Course: Tony Cashmore (2001). Par 72, 6,951 yards. Cameron John won the 2026 Vic Open here with 280 (−8).
The Beach Course: Tony Cashmore (2001). Par 72, 6,951 yards. Cameron John won the 2026 Vic Open here with 280 (−8).
Updated October 24, 2026
13 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
PGA Tour of Australasia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Cameron John | 280 (−8) | won in a playoff |
| 2025 | Josh Geary | 275 (−13) | by 4 strokes |
| 2024 | Brett Coletta | 270 (−18) | by 2 strokes |
| 2023 | Michael Hendry | 267 (−21) | by 4 strokes |
| 2022 | Dimitrios Papadatos | 267 (−21) | by 1 stroke |
| 2018 | Simon Hawkes | 274 (−14) | won in a playoff |
| 2017 | Dimitrios Papadatos | 272 (−16) | by 2 strokes |
| 2016 | Michael Long | 275 (−13) | won in a playoff |
| 2015 | Richard Green | 272 (−16) | won in a playoff |
| 2014 | Matthew Griffin | 281 (−7) | won in a playoff |
| 2013 | Matthew Giles | 275 (−13) | by 1 stroke |
DP World Tour; PGA Tour of Australasia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Min Woo Lee | 269 (−19) | by 2 strokes |
| 2019 | David Law | 270 (−18) | by 1 stroke |
The 13th Beach land was an asparagus farm before the Beach Course opened in December 2001.
Source: 13th Beach about page
Since 2013 the Vic Open has had men and women playing the same courses at the same time for equal prize money, a format the club calls unique in world professional golf.
Source: 13th Beach tournaments page
The first four holes run through the residential precinct on relatively flat land; the club says the links terrain begins when the 5th tee opens onto the dunes.
Source: 13th Beach: The Beach Course · Golf Australia: Beauties of the Bellarine
Golf Australia calls the four par 3s the Beach Course's highlight: the long, exposed 3rd, the 7th and 12th with green complexes that feed balls toward some flags and away from others, and the 16th.
Golf Australia calls the 113-metre par-3 16th the jewel in the crown and says that downwind, with nothing to stop a pitch and no room for a running shot, only a perfectly judged wedge holds the green.
Developer Duncan Andrews, who had built The Dunes Links, hired its architect Tony Cashmore, who took a minimalist approach and placed tees and greens among the coastal dunes.
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ISPS Handa Vic Open 6–9 February 2020 | Min Woo Lee | DP World Tour |
| 2019 | ISPS Handa Vic Open 7–10 February 2019 | David Law | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
Data: 13th-beach-beach.json. Spot an error? See corrections.