The Royal Sydney Golf Club

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Royal Sydney Golf Club, NSW,20 minutes from Sydney CBD.

A private club for members and their invited guests.

Royal Sydney is one of Australia's great sporting complexes with Tennis, bowls, croquet, squash, a fitness centre and swimming pool all available to members!

Accommodation is available for guests of members as well, with some fine views to be had.

The Championship course is famous for hosting Men's and Women's Australian Open's throughout it's time in the beautiful and leafy surrounds of Rose Bay, one of Sydney's premier suburbs.

The day I was to play the course the heavens opened sadly, the course itself held up very well in these conditions, and as it's exceptionally hard to get on here (it took this writer 3 years) you don't pack up and head back to the clubhouse.

The course has one of the more interesting opening holes in Australia, a short par 4 that has an elevated tee box and has bunkers everywhere posing a problem straight away, lay up is the best option!

Speaking of bunkers the course has significantly reduced it's bunkering from yester year, but it still poses a threat all day and definitely makes the golfer think before their next shot.

The course runs fairly up and back with not too much directional change, or elevation, but what it lacks in these departments in more than makes up for in design of the current holes. You can see why major tournaments are held there.

Greens are a challenge and having local knowledge on the day certainly helped!

The Club is in the midst of a potential change to the course design with the great Gil Hanse reportedly undertaking the redevelop of the Championship course, for myself this could certainly see a rise in the ranking for this mighty course, and I'd certainly enjoy playing here once this change is completed.

Tyson.

Royal Sydney Golf Club is not only one of Australia's most iconic golf clubs but also a sporting club with tennis, Bowls, Croquet, Squash and fitness available. The club is located in the middle of the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay no more then 20min from the city center. With its sandy ground and undulating fairways the course is characterised by playing firm and fast. Although greatly reduced the course at one point had more then 300 bunkers. Maybe not quite as good as its southern cousin Royal Melbourne, Royal Sydney's under going renovations by Gil Hanse.