Golf Courses - Sandbelt

‘It burns me up that with the billions of dollars spent on course construction in the past fifty years, all the architects together haven’t been able to build another Royal Melbourne.’ Gene Sarazen...

‘Never yet have I advised upon a course where, owing to the excellence of design and construction work, the problems have been so simple.’ Dr Alister MacKenzie on Kingston Heath

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The Metropolitan Golf Club was founded by a group of Royal Melbourne members who rejected the club’s 1901 move into Melbourne’s southern sandhills and opted instead to remain at their inner-city ho...

The concept for Royal Melbourne’s East Course was born shortly after Alister MacKenzie had left Australia and while his famous West Course was still under construction. The club’s plan to build a n...

Melbourne businessman William Meader is considered the forefather of Victorian golf, having helped establish the state’s Golf Association in 1902 and founding the Victoria Golf Club the following y...

One of Australia’s most famous tournament venue’s, Huntingdale was designed by an Englishman, Charles Alison, who never actually set foot on the site. Built on a narrow stretch of former swampland ...

Located in the bayside city of Frankston, the Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club has two nice courses positioned geographically within the Melbourne Sandbelt yet only minutes from the thriving M...

Largely unheralded outside Australia, Woodlands is yet another exceptional example of classic golf course architecture within Melbourne’s glorious Sandbelt. Though today it is one of the best bunke...

Like a number of Melbourne’s famous clubs, the Commonwealth Golf Club was founded by frustrated members of a clay-based city course who, in the 1920’s, decided to move to the prospering southern Sa...

Like most of the major Melbourne Sandbelt clubs Yarra Yarra was born many miles away from the fertile golfing ground it currently calls home. Originally the Eaglemont Golf Club the name Yarra Yarra...