Roseville

An 18-hole course was in play at Roseville Golf Club in 1925, two years after the club’s formation. The layout has served the club well but it’s been upgraded in recent years, with architect James Wilcher reconstructing five of the holes.

Occupying a property of less than 70 acres, there’s not really enough room for an 18-hole course at Roseville but somehow the club has managed to shoehorn them in, albeit with one of the most lop-sided configuration you’ll ever come across: par 30 on the front nine of 2,009 metres and par 37 on the back nine of 2,831 metres, featuring six par threes on the outward half and three par fives on the inward half.

Highlight holes include the 160-metre downhill 5th, with the green positioned behind Moore’s Creek; the left doglegging par four 7th which plays to a raised green that slopes from right to left; the 193-metre 12th that mandates a carry over a new irrigation lake to a well-bunkered green; and the par five finishing hole where the fairway snakes towards a home green that’s surrounded by sand hazards.