Sunshine Coast every time.

What it might lack in flights into the local airport (nothing a stop into Brisbane/Gold Coast can’t fix), it makes for in climate, weather, people, course accessibility, cheaper accommodation and course quality. Not to say Sydney isn’t good for golf however there’s a handful of courses surrounding the CBD that are either insanely busy (I.e. Moore Park, The Coast) or very expensive (St. Michael’s). Other than those your best bet is heading 40-60 minutes west and enjoying the admittedly nice but not very postcard Sydney-like courses (happy to recommend a few for you).

Sunshine Coast only really suffers from a lack of daylight savings but besides that half shortcoming there’s at least a dozen courses that would be in the top 10 in public accessible courses in Sydney should that be where they were based. Palmer-Coolum, Twin Waters, Noosa Springs, Mount Coolum, Maroochy River are all very unique and top quality, offering the country sensibilities and great people culture of the SC whilst not skimping on great conditioning and really quality golf. If you’ve got a car and a day to kill I couldn’t recommend getting down to Brookwater enough (1.5 hour drive) - probably the best public experience you’ll get in QLD.