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Victoria Golf Club

Park Rd

Cheltenham, VIC 3192

Australia

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Overview

Located kitty-corner across a road from Royal Melbourne, Victoria Golf Club is the home course of professional tour stars Peter Thomson (who passed away in 2018) and Geoff Ogilvy, now of the architectural firm Ogilvy, Cocking & Mead (OCM). It was designed originally by a couple of club founders. Alister MacKenzie made bunkering suggestions during a 1926 visit, changes later implemented by Alex Russell. Victoria has smaller greens than at other prominent Melbourne courses, and bunkers that sit hard against the collars, making them play even tighter. Once heavily forested, the club has been uncluttering the property over the past two decades, and in 2016, OCM, with former partner Mike Clayton, carried out the most significant renovation of the course since MacKenzie was there, rebuilding every green complex, adding bunkers and revamping the natural vegetation.

About

Holes 18

Length 6888

Facility Type Private

Year Opened 1927

Designer William Meanor, Oscar Damman (1927); Alister MacKenzie (1927); Mike Clayton, Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking & Ashley Mead (2015); Mike Cocking, Geoff Ogilvy, Ashley Mead (2019)