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The Melbourne Sandbelt is a collection of eight clubs that epitomise the golden age of golf architecture.
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Home of the 2018 World Cup of Golf and 2019 Presidents Cup.

16/03/2020

The superb greens and bunkers are the highlight at Yarra Yarra Golf Club and as good as many of Dr Alister MacKenzie’s own creations. Typically large, fast and undulating, the greens feature some of the most extreme slopes in Melbourne, while the bunkers are constructed to blend naturally with their surrounds and are intrinsic to the strategy of each hole.

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

11/03/2020

Many experts point to the 15th as one of the finest holes at Victoria Golf Club and yet another of the Melbourne Sandbelt’s wonderful, short par fours. The smart play is a shot well to the right and perhaps level with the first bunker. From there, it is just a short iron and maybe a putt for birdie.

30/01/2020

The ninth hole at Metropolitan is a long par-4 with a sharp dogleg right. Most play down to the corner with the perfect shot to fade around the corner. This is the most beautifully contoured and shaped green on the golf course – being on in two is no guarantee of a par.

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

27/01/2020

Just 8 hours left to bid on some wonderful online auction items to help raise money for the Victorian bushfire appeal.

Check it out below 👇

https://www.allbids.com.au/c/charity-community-auctions/victoria-government-bushfire-appeal #?page=1&count=50

23/01/2020

The Melbourne Sandbelt is teaming up with this year's Premiers Cup to help provide support for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

The Premiers Cup will be held on Monday 27 January at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club.

All spots are currently filled, however, you can still support but checking out the fantastic online auction items we have on offer including:

➡️ Presidents Cup US team signed club car
➡️ Presidents Cup International team signed club car
➡️ Visit Melbourne Sporting Experience - Men's T20 Cricket Final, Women's T20 Cricket Final, Bledisloe Cup, Men's Australian Open Tennis Finals and Women's Australian Open Finals - Value $10,000
➡️ plus there are over 30 more great prizes on offer

To bid and view all items, https://www.allbids.com.au/t/all-proceeds-to-the-victorian-government-bushfire-appeal #?page=1&count=50&filter%5BDisplay%5D=true

Bidding closes Monday 27 January at 8:30pm (AEDT)

20/01/2020

This is Huntingdale Golf Club.

20/12/2019

Tiger Woods had glowing reviews of Royal Melbourne and the Melbourne Sandbelt during his recent Presidents Cup visit.

15/12/2019

What an epic conclusion to the 2019 hosted by Royal Melbourne on the Melbourne Sandbelt.

📷: Presidents Cup

11/12/2019

The par-4 18th at Royal Melbourne’s Composite Course. Soon-to-be the finishing hole of the 2019 Presidents Cup 🏆

See you tomorrow.

10/12/2019

The Melbourne Sandbelt: A Golfing Great

29/11/2019

The narrow and strategically shaped second green at Commonwealth Golf Club is well protected by front and green side bunkers which presents a very testing approach shot. What is your strategy?

26/11/2019

View of the creek running in front of the first green at Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club. A nod to the original design of the South course from the 1930's, OCM Golf removed pipe works to reinstate the original waterways.

📸: Caddie Magazine

18/11/2019

The Presidents Cup course will incorporate the best holes in the “home paddock” at Royal Melbourne, combining to make a golf course of outstanding quality with an intriguing mix of Scottish Links characteristics and rugged Sandbelt beauty. What is your favourite hole on the composite course?

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

12/11/2019

Aside from brilliant bunkering, wonderful greens and incredible construction, Kingston Heath Golf Club's charm lies in the use of its native grasses and the manner in which the holes and hazards seamlessly integrate into the surrounding vegetation.

📷: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

08/11/2019

Huge news today with 15-time major winner Tiger Woods announcing he will be a playing captain next month at Royal Melbourne when locks horns with Ernie Els and at the Presidents Cup on the Melbourne Sandbelt from 9-15 December.

01/11/2019

"Yarra Yarra Golf Club has never been a long course. The shorter courses - especially in the modern game - rely for their defence on the slope, size and speed of their greens. Yarra Yarra is no exception; the slopes on the putting surfaces are as severe and dramatic as any in the country."

- Golf Australia Magazine

24/10/2019

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22/10/2019

The par 3's at Victoria Golf Club are the strength of the course, each of them uphill and heavily bunkered, but that is where the resemblance ends. The fourth hole has a shiny plateau green which requires a straight shot in.

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

16/10/2019

Sunset falling over the seventh hole at Huntingdale Golf Club.

📷: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

10/10/2019

A major feature of Commonwealth Golf Club is the natural lake that comes into play on the third - where the fairway is bunkered on the left and slopes toward the water on the right - and the sixteenth hole. This is one of Commonwealth's most photogenic holes, but it's a challenge, too.

30/09/2019

During the redesign at Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club, OCCM Golf introduced Pure Distinction bentgrass on all greens across both North and South courses for an unbeatably fine and smooth green surface.

📸: Caddie Magazine

26/09/2019

The fifth at Royal Melbourne Golf Club is the first one-shotter on the West Course. It is one of the best par threes in Melbourne, which makes it one of the best in the world.

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

19/09/2019

A bird's-eye view of the par-3 10th at Kingston Heath Golf Club.

16/09/2019

The 14th at Yarra Yarra Golf Club is a straightaway hole that narrows down from 220 metres off the tee. The green is one of the flattest on the course however, very subtle breaks makes putting harder than meets the eye.

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

11/09/2019

The central and southern sections of Victoria Golf Club are a highlight, particularly holes nine to 13, which take the golfer on an absorbing journey through the most interesting undulation on the course.

📸: Gary Lisbon

06/09/2019

Spring has sprung at Metropolitan Golf Club ☀️

03/09/2019

"Any discussion of the back nine at Huntingdale Golf Club would be incomplete without mention of the par-4 finishing hole, which ranks the hardest on the course. Tipping out at 410m, the 18th hole was a famous final hurdle for any potential Australian Masters winner and remains one of the standouts on the course."

- Jimmy Emanuel

📸: Gary Lisbon Golf Photography

28/08/2019

Start your round at Commonwealth Golf Club with the par-4 1st hole, also offering spectacular views of the clubhouse.

23/08/2019

Often the best approach for a redesign is not to start from scratch, rather to accentuate the best of what you already have. Accordingly, it's not the wickedness of the greens or an abundance of any red stakes that is so endearing at Peninsula Kingswood, instead it's seeing the Sandbelt DNA in the property now take the top billing. - Golf Australia Magazine

📸: Caddie Magazine

12/08/2019

The pinnacle of golf in Australia.

📸: Lisbon Golf Photography

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Huntingdale Golf Club

This is Huntingdale Golf Club. #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf

Tiger Woods discussing the Melbourne Sandbelt

Tiger Woods had glowing reviews of Royal Melbourne and the Melbourne Sandbelt during his recent Presidents Cup visit. #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf #RoyalMelbourneGolfClub #PresidentsCup

The Melbourne Sandbelt: A Golfing Great

The Melbourne Sandbelt: A Golfing Great #ClassicGolf

Metropolitan Golf Club

The beauty of @MetropolitanGC. #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf #MetropolitanGolfClub

Royal Melbourne Golf Club: West Course

The pinnacle of golf in Australia. 📸: @Gary Lisbon Golf Photography #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf #RoyalMelbourneGolfClub

Commonwealth Golf Club: Sixth hole

A bird’s-eye view of one of Melbourne’s best and hardest par-5’s, the sixth hole at Commonwealth Golf Club. #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf #CommonwealthGolfClub

Kingston Heath Golf Club

Kingston Heath Golf Club = Perfection 📽️: Caddie Magazine #MelbourneSandbelt #ClassicGolf #KingstonHeathGolfClub

The Melbourne Sandbelt - A Golfing Great

It has played host multiple times to the Presidents Cup, Australian Open Golf and this week, the World Cup of Golf. Introducing The Melbourne Sandbelt - A Golfing Great

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