New South Wales Golf Club

Liverpool Golf Club

Australia, NSW, Sydney
4.9 (30)
Designer:
Course Opened: 1971

Liverpool is a highly regarded Championship Course and is commonly recognised as one of the premier layouts in Sydney. The Par 72 (74 Ladies) course is a wonderful test of golf for both professional and amateur golfers with water in play on 14 holes. Good shot selection is key with players rewarded for straight hitting!

Experienced golfers will revel in the challenge from the Championship tees while social golfers will appreciate the beauty and serenity of the lake land environment. Having undergone significant remodelling of the bunkers in recent years, the course enjoys an enviable reputation as one of Sydney's top golf venues.

Extract from the club website:

The official opening of the new course by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler, amongst enormous excitement and pride, occurred on December 4th, 1971.

Just as the old course at Collingwood was linked closely with the early history of New South Wales, so the new club continued this sense of history. The course is less than 2 Km from the historic Lansdowne Bridge on the Hume Highway, one of the oldest on the Australian mainland. The course is also partly surrounded by Prospect Creek, and opposite the third fairway a fork in the Georges River joins the creek. This is where Governor John Hunter, the second governor of New South Wales, landed in 1798 after a voyage up the Georges River from Botany Bay, naming the area Bankstown.

The task of transforming the dairy paddocks to a championship course was given to the firm of golf course architects Golf and Recreation Planners Pty. Ltd. headed by Robert (Bob) Green. Among the striking features of the layout were seven artificial lakes. Combined with the gently undulating land, and the tall trees skirting Prospect Creek, the course had immediate aesthetic appeal with its character and beauty offsetting the considerable despair felt by golfers who strayed off the fairway.

The attractive playing facilities were complemented by the construction of the clubhouse, set on the highest portion of the course, commanding an unobstructed view of the course from a large open sundeck on the first floor, and a grandstand view of the 9th and 18th holes.

The first competitive game at Lansvale was held on July 22nd, 1971 and the Liverpool Golf Club was on its way to becoming one of Sydney's most beautiful and challenging courses. Although the move to Lansvale meant leaving the city which gave the club its name, it transformed a small club with little prospect for expansion into a major centre for the game in New South Wales.

 

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