The Best Golf Resorts in Perth
Perth is the most isolated golf city on earth and one of the sunniest, and its resort golf concentrates into two genuine stay and play properties, Joondalup's quarry cut Trent Jones Jr masterpiece in the north and The Vines' 36 holes in Swan Valley wine country, plus three bases that unlock the coast. We ranked all five honestly, including who each one is actually for.
Photograph: Joondalup Resort Golf Course, via Google
How we chose
This list was researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk, with every fee and design credit checked against course and hotel published sources in June 2026. Perth's golf headline is Joondalup: 27 holes by Robert Trent Jones Jr, opened in stages from 1985, where the Quarry nine's holes 3 to 5 play through actual limestone quarries and rank among the most dramatic golf holes in Australia. Its published 2026 card runs 178 to 208 Australian dollars for 18 holes with a twin share cart, falling to 123 to 136 for hotel guests, which is the single best reason on this list to sleep where you play. The Vines in Swan Valley answers with 36 holes by Graham Marsh and Ross Watson, and the wider public market, from The Cut's ocean dunes at 62 to 72 dollars online to Wembley's 42 dollar city rounds, is priced in our Perth green fees guide.
Only two properties here are true golf resorts, so the back half of the ranking is about geography: a luxury city base for the visitor sampling the lot, the Mandurah waterfront for the southern links run, and one island wildcard. Private sandbelt style clubs like Lake Karrinyup stay off the list because access runs through members, not hotel desks. Every entry below can be booked by anyone, and the golf beside it verified to be bookable too.
The best in Perth, ranked
Joondalup Resort, Connolly
The complete answer. Joondalup is the only Perth property where a serious hotel and genuinely great golf share a driveway: three Robert Trent Jones Jr nines, Quarry, Dune and Lake, rotating into 18 hole combinations that all play to par 72, with the Quarry stretch through 30 meter limestone walls the photograph everyone takes home. The 2026 numbers reward sleeping on site, 123 to 136 dollars with cart against 178 to 208 for the public, and the resort wraps it in pools, a spa and multiple restaurants 25 minutes from the city. Collared shirts required, denim refused, standards kept. Our verdict: the one unmissable golf stay in Western Australia.
Access: resort and course fully public; book weekend mornings well ahead. Check stay and play rates.
Novotel Vines Resort Swan Valley
The volume and vineyard play. The Vines plants a full resort among the Swan Valley vines with 36 holes out the back, the championship Ellenbrook and Lakes loops shaped by Graham Marsh and Ross Watson through bushland where kangaroos graze the fairways at dusk, golf that once hosted the European and Australasian tours. Two courses on one property means a 36 hole day never repeats a hole, and the valley's cellar doors and breweries solve every afternoon. The hotel is a comfortable four star Novotel rather than a luxury address, which the rate reflects. Our verdict: the buddies trip base, where the second round and the second bottle are both walking distance.
Access: resort and courses fully public; social golf rates published online. Check stay and play rates.
Crown Towers Perth, Burswood
The luxury hub. Crown Towers is Perth's showpiece hotel, a glass tower over the Swan River with the city's best pools, suites and restaurant floor, and it earns third place as the base for the golfer who wants to sample the whole map rather than marry one course. Joondalup is 35 minutes north, The Vines 30 minutes east, the southern links under an hour, and the public parkland holes of Burswood Park sit next door for a jet lag loosener. The honesty clause: you will drive to every round, and the non golfer will not care even slightly. Our verdict: the splurge base for a couples or mixed trip built around two or three marquee tee times.
Access: hotel public, golf booked course by course. Check stay and play rates.
The Sebel Mandurah
The links run headquarters. The Sebel sits on the Mandurah waterfront an hour south of the city, within a 10 to 25 minute drive of the coast's three destination courses: The Cut's true ocean dunes at Dawesville, 62 to 72 dollars booked online in 2026, the Links Kennedy Bay at 69 to 79, and Robert Trent Jones Jr's Meadow Springs between them. That cluster is the best golf value corridor in Western Australia, and basing on the estuary boardwalk beats driving it twice daily from Perth. The hotel itself is a polished, modest 84 room four star; the dolphins in the marina do the entertainment. Our verdict: the smart pick for a three round links weekend.
Access: hotel public, golf booked online with each course; online rates beat walk in. Check stay and play rates.
Samphire Rottnest, Rottnest Island
The left field finisher. Samphire is the boutique beachfront hotel on Rottnest Island, a 30 minute ferry from Fremantle, and it makes this list for the trip nobody regrets: a barefoot island day or two bolted onto a Perth golf week, with the island's nine hole country club course supplying the most relaxed golf in this guide between swims, quokka encounters and sundowners over Thomson Bay. Nobody crosses an ocean for the course itself, and that is the point; it is the decompression chapter after Joondalup's quarries and the Mandurah links. Our verdict: the closing two nights of the perfect Western Australia golf itinerary.
Access: hotel public, ferry from Fremantle or Perth; golf casual, clubs available on island. Check stay and play rates.
Designers, fees and distances verified June 2026 by the GolfForKings editorial desk from course and hotel published sources. Rates shown carry their season and year and are indicative only; always confirm directly with each property before booking. Tee times across Perth's public courses can also be compared via our tee time partner.
Plan a Perth golf trip
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Building the trip
The efficient Perth golf week runs north to south: two nights and 27 or 36 holes at Joondalup, a Swan Valley night at The Vines with a cellar door afternoon, then the Mandurah corridor for The Cut and Kennedy Bay before Rottnest closes the show. October through April is reliable sunshine, with the famous afternoon sea breeze, the Fremantle Doctor, rewarding morning tee times all summer. Perth also opens the west coast leg of a longer swing; our Australia golf holidays page maps it against the best courses in the country, most of which cluster on the Melbourne sandbelt and Tasmania, and the Australia vs New Zealand comparison settles the bigger itinerary question. When the shortlist is set, plan my trip prices the whole run in one brief.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Joondalup's Robert Trent Jones Jr design, 27 hole layout and published 2026 fees of 178 to 208 dollars public and 123 to 136 dollars for hotel guests, both with twin share cart, verified June 2026 against the resort's published green fee page; The Vines' 36 holes and Marsh and Watson design credit, and The Cut and Links Kennedy Bay 2026 online rates, verified against course published pages; hotel locations and facilities verified against hotel published pages. Last reviewed June 2026.