Bellarine Peninsula Golf Escape 2026
Every year our Par Tee Girls golf trip rolls around with two clear goals — play some golf and have a bloody good time trying.
This year nine of us headed to Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula for four days of golf, food, wine, laughs and highly questionable scorekeeping.
Once again, we left the organising to Fairway Golf Tours, which meant all we had to do was get ourselves — and our golf bags — to Perth Airport. After flying into Melbourne, Warren our driver from Murrell Group was efficiently waiting and we were transported to Geelong, where Oaks R Suites became home for the next four nights.
Naturally, no sooner had we unpacked than we headed straight out for dinner at Caruggi. Excellent Italian food, plenty of wine and early discussions about who was “feeling good about their game” before anyone had actually hit a golf ball.
Round One — 13th Beach Golf Links
Our opening round was at 13th Beach Golf Links on the Creek Course.
The weather was kind, spirits were high and everyone still thought they were a genuine chance at the GOAT Trophy.
With time to spare before tee off, instead of sensibly warming up on the putting green or hitting balls on the range, the girls headed straight for the pro shop. The selection of shoes, clothes and accessories was next level — honestly far better than anything we’ve seen at most Perth clubhouses — and suddenly “just having a look” turned into a full pre-game shopping session.
Eventually golf was played.
13th Beach was a challenging start to the week. The bunkers looked more like giant craters designed to crush confidence and swallow golf balls whole. Escaping some of them became a genuine achievement and by the back nine, avoiding sand entirely felt like the smarter strategy.
Back in Geelong, dinner at Nectar Kitchen & Bar provided the perfect recovery — Mediterranean food, excellent wine and plenty of lively discussion around miraculous putts, tragic bunker shots and suspiciously generous handicaps.
The 3 Club Ambrose Challenge
Day two was the famous 3 Club Challenge at Lonsdale Links and suddenly golf became far more serious.
The rules are simple — three clubs each for the entire round. No sharing, no swapping, just questionable decisions and team strategy.
With three groups of three players, each player had to take three tee shots during the round before the team chose the best ball and everyone played from there.
What followed was part golf, part survival and part group therapy.
Suddenly everyone became tactical experts. Club choices were analysed like life-changing decisions, while some players became deeply emotionally attached to a hybrid they’d barely used before.
It turns out when you only have three clubs, creativity becomes very important. So does luck.
The competition was tight, the banter was strong and somehow the golf actually improved — although there were still plenty of shots that had absolutely no business going where they did.
By the end of the round there was plenty of fun banter, questionable gameplay and a very deserving lunch at the clubhouse restaurant.
18th Amendment Bar, Geelong
Our afternoon saw us swap golf shoes for chocolate treats as we headed to Village Cinemas for a private screening of Devil Wears Prada 2.
With the weather turning miserable outside, we spent the evening tucked away in the 18th Amendment Bar sipping cocktails and sharing dumplings from Bahjong while trying to keep our eyes open as a full day of golf, wine and creeping jetlag started catching up with us.
Championship Day — Queenscliff Golf Club
Round two at Queenscliff Golf Club was the GOAT Trophy decider and what quickly became less of a golf round and more of a survival event.
Rain, hail, sideways wind and freezing temperatures rolled in from the opening holes and the Par Tee Girls quickly became the Rainbow Girls as everyone piled on every available layer of clothing.
The rush to buy hand warmers the previous afternoon suddenly looked like genius behaviour.
Some players got lucky and waited out the worst of the weather from the clubhouse with sausage rolls and coffee. The rest battled rogue umbrellas, flooded fairways and golf carts whose brakes simply couldn’t withstand the conditions.
Despite everyone panic-buying extra golf balls, surprisingly few were actually lost.
The first groups powered through and finished early while the final groups copped the worst of the weather — spending much of the afternoon searching for balls in trees, puddles and neighbouring fairways before eventually deciding enough was enough and calling it a day.
Although only two groups completed the full course, the GOAT Trophy winner was crowned. Well done Sarah - 2026 Par Tee Girl Champion!
By the end of the day, nobody really cared about scores anymore. Everyone was mostly just happy to be reunited with heating, champagne and dry clothes.
The best part of these trips is never really the golf. It’s the laughs, the chaos, the weather dramas, the competition, the stories and the fact that no matter how badly anyone plays, everyone still turns up the next morning ready to do it all again.
The Bellarine Peninsula gave us great golf, excellent food, ridiculous weather and another memorable Par Tee Girls trip.
Until next year ⛳🍷
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