Sydney's home of public golf, Moore Park Golf Club is located minutes from Sydney CBD in the heart of the one of Australia’s most loved parklands. Moore Park Golf is a golfing complex that boasts convenience, accessibility and spectacular views of the city skyline.

Moore Park Golf Course was founded by two young Scottish immigrants, brothers Duncan and Charlie McMillan, who surveyed the land at Moore Park and thought it an ideal location for a golf course. Their devotion to golf actually caused considerable alarm amongst the local constabulary, who continually confiscated the brothers’ clubs for practicing on what would eventually become the Moore Park Golf Course!

The course doubled in size to 18 holes in 1922 with the acquisition of land on the southern side of Dacey Avenue and, with that, Duncan McMillan and his dedicated band of golfers decided to formally constitute themselves as the Moore Park Golf Club.

Due to the ever increasing number of players on the course and the club's closeness to the city, the City Council agreed to build a new Golf House, which was opened in 1926 to much fanfare from the local Sydney press. As a testament to the ‘they don't build 'em like they used to’ era in which the Golf House was built, it still stands and is used by golfers and members to this day.

Over the years that followed, the course underwent a series of alterations and extensions and, in 1937, course architect Eric Apperly was commissioned to completely re-construct the layout. The project finally came to fruition in 1950 and Moore Park Golf was transformed from a rather barren, sandy links to a parkland course, with the planting of hundreds of trees in strategic positions.

The remodelled course (in various configurations) remained in play until 1991. At this point the Moore Park Golf Club, in partnership with the newly appointed custodians of the parklands, the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust, decided to fully re-construct the golf course and build additional facilities – including the 60 bay, three-tiered driving range practice facility.

The new layout, designed by golf professional and course architect Ken McKay, came into play in late 1996.

Gradual improvements to bunkers, tees and course drainage created a course that was shortly chosen as the venue for the 2006 NSW Golf Open to great acclaim.

In 2009 Moore Park Golf was approached to host the inaugural Australia v New Zealand Skins Challenge, featuring former US Open winners Michael Campbell and Geoff Ogilvy. This Skins Challenge was held again in 2010, attracting US golfer John Daly.

In October 2009, Clublinks was appointed to manage the Moore Park Golf facilities after a competitive tender.  Clublinks successfully won the subsequent tender in November 2015.

Today, Moore Park Golf continues to build on its roots of being the 'people's golf course'. A recent agreement signed with the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust has assured that Moore Park Golf Club has a further 20 year tenure on the site. This means future generations of golfers can enjoy the freedom, triumphs, frustrations and fun that were founded and fought for by the McMillan brothers almost 100 years ago.

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