Eric Apperly designed the course at Duntryleague Golf Club in the mid-1930s when the property was acquired from the local diocese of the Catholic Church. The original manor house still serves as the clubhouse, complete with rooms used for guest accommodation.
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Eric Apperly designed the course at Duntryleague Golf Club in the mid-1930s when the property was acquired from the local diocese of the Catholic Church. The original manor house still serves as the clubhouse, complete with rooms used for guest accommodation.
Duntryleague
In 1935, Orange Golf Club purchased 180 acres of the Duntryleague estate from the Catholic Church, which had inherited the property from a previous owner. The club's professional, John Irving, mapped out an 18-hole course within the grounds and his plans were approved by architect Eric Apperly.
The club engaged Latvian landscape architect Ilmar Berzins to undertake a masterplan of the course in 1949, setting out the existing tree species and specifying future plantings. Rather unusually, the fairways were then planted with South African couch, a drought-resistant grass.
Feature holes include the right doglegging 360-metre 4th, the short par four 14th, with out of bounds running the right side of the fairway, and the 182-metre 17th, played across a triangular-shaped irrigation pond to a long, narrow sand-protected green.
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