Carnarvon

Founded in 1927, Carnarvon Golf Club moved to a new location in 1933 before decamping to its current premises just after World War II. Arthur East designed the club’s 18-hole layout which opened in 1949 after a 2-year build.

Occupying a long, narrow tract extending to no more than 110 acres, this tree-lined course measures 6,175 metres from the tips (playing to a par of 72) and holes are arranged as two returning nines, each of which start out from the clubhouse with a par five. Aquatic hazards come into play at a couple of holes: a long, thin irrigation pond runs along the right side of the par four 8th and there’s a larger water feature to the right of the fairway on the par four 18th.

Highlight holes include the 410-metre 2nd (where the tee shot is played blind to a fairway that doglegs left over the crest of a small hill before gradually descending to a bunkerless green); the 178-metre 7th (which is a downhill par three with three deep bunkers guarding the front, left and right edges of the relatively small green); and the 457-metre 17th, doglegging right to the target around a hundred metres short of the left to right sloping green.