Port Augusta measures 5757m (Par 70) with four par 3s ranging from 146–165m, twelve par 4s ranging from 312–408m and two par 5s ranging from the 513m straight 2nd (index 2) and the 451m 17th (index 13) which doglegs 45 degrees to the right from 200m off the tee to a green guarded by 2 short side bunkers.
The course has fairly wide and quite lush kikuyu fairways with patches of couch grass. The rough has softish red sand/dirt with clover weeds and even some patches of couch grass with short tree-lined fairways with some clusters of saltbush. The medium-to-large sized greens have tifdwarf couch grass greens which are dormant in the winter and can run fast but true. There is also a mix of couch/kikuyu grass surrounding the greens.