Architect Graham Papworth redesigned the original course at Geelong Golf Club after a lengthy closure at the start of the new millennium. Today, this 9-hole layout is routed around a substantial residential development with fairways weaving between large clusters of housing.
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Architect Graham Papworth redesigned the original course at Geelong Golf Club after a lengthy closure at the start of the new millennium. Today, this 9-hole layout is routed around a substantial residential development with fairways weaving between large clusters of housing.
Geelong
Architect Graham Papworth redesigned the original course at Geelong Golf Club after a lengthy closure at the start of the new millennium. Today, this 9-hole layout is routed around a substantial residential development with fairways weaving between large clusters of housing.
Geelong was founded in 1892, making it the oldest golf club in the state of Victoria, but it ran into financial difficulties at the end of the 1990s. Unfortunately, it then took the best part of two decades to sort out the club’s future.
Today, the new 9-hole layout extends to just over 2,000 metres, playing to a par of 33, with four par threes, four short par fours and one par five on the scorecard. Highlight holes include the 450-metre 5th (rated stroke index 1) and the last (and longest) of the par threes at the 166-metre 8th.
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