Bob Green and Murray Dawson (who also fashioned the acclaimed Sun City to the north of Neerabup) designed Wanneroo Golf Club in 1973. It’s billed as “The Gem of the North” (Perth that is) and it’s hard to disagree. It’s an exacting test and former host to the Western Australian PGA Championship.
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Bob Green and Murray Dawson (who also fashioned the acclaimed Sun City to the north of Neerabup) designed Wanneroo Golf Club in 1973. It’s billed as “The Gem of the North” (Perth that is) and it’s hard to disagree. It’s an exacting test and former host to the Western Australian PGA Championship.
Wanneroo
Known locally as “The Gem of the North,” the course at Wanneroo Golf Club lies around half an hour’s drive north from Perth city centre. It was founded in the early 1970s by a group of golfers who were unhappy with the standard of public golf facilities in the northern suburbs, and since then the club has gone from strength to strength.
Occupying a compact 115-acre property on the outskirts of the Banksia Grove suburb, the course was designed by Bob Green and Murray Dawson and constructed to a very high standard by club volunteers and sponsors, its tree-lined fairways becoming the first fully irrigated holes in Western Australia when they opened for play on 14th March 1973.
The course has enjoyed plenty of tournament play in recent years. It previously hosted the Western Australian PGA Championship in 2003, which was won by home favourite Kim Felton, and since then it has co-hosted with Lake Karrinyup the early rounds of both the men’s and women’s Australian Amateur Championships.
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