Melbourne, then where?

A short flight up from Melbourne to three nights on the harbour.

Play New South Wales at La Perouse, where the holes run along the cliffs above Botany Bay. MacKenzie routed it the year before he built Meadow Club. Then The Australian, a regular home of the Australian Open. The rest of the time is Sydney's: the harbour, the Opera House and long lunches by the water.

Three days of links golf, then three slow days at Saffire.

Fly to Launceston and drive out to Barnbougle on the north-east coast. Play The Dunes and Lost Farm, two great courses side by side in the dunes, with the short Bougle Run if you want more. Then cross the island to Saffire on the Freycinet Peninsula: the Hazards out the window, the walk to Wineglass Bay, and oysters from the bay below.

Four courses, 74 holes and no airport queues.

The jet takes you from Melbourne to Barnbougle for The Dunes and Lost Farm, then across Bass Strait to King Island for Ocean Dunes and Cape Wickham, both laid along the island's wild coast. In between, King Island's cheese and crayfish. Three nights, the most golf of any extension, and home to Melbourne without a check-in queue.

Wine country at harvest, then an island most people never reach.

Three nights in the Barossa during vintage, when the grapes are coming in and the cellar doors are at their busiest. Then a helicopter across to Kangaroo Island for Darius Oliver's new course at The Cliffs, with the island's coast and wildlife on the doorstep. Add a round at The Grange in Adelaide if you'd like one more.

Across the Tasman to two courses on one stretch of Pacific dune.

Fly to Auckland and drive ninety minutes north to Te Arai. Tom Doak's South Course and Coore & Crenshaw's North sit side by side above the beach, with a replay of whichever you like best. Stay in the Suites on site, walk the beach, and spend an afternoon among the Matakana wineries. Kauri Cliffs can be added further north.