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Royal Melbourne Golf Club is a 36-hole golf club in Australia, located in Black Rock, Victoria, a suburb in southeastern Melbourne. Its West and East courses are respectively ranked number 1 and 6 in Australia. [1] [2] The West course is ranked in the top-five courses in the world.
Metropolitan Golf Club shares its origins with Royal Melbourne Golf Club, which was founded in 1891 as Melbourne Golf Club, with the Royal title being granted in 1895. When the original course at Caulfield was turned over to housing, Royal Melbourne moved to a new course at Sandringham . [ 1 ]
The Australian Golf Club was founded in 1882, which makes it the oldest golf club in Australia followed by Royal Melbourne Golf Club (founded 1891). However, The Australian did not have a golf course between the years of 1888 and 1895, which has led to debate as to which golf club is the oldest.
The phrase Royal Melbourne can be used in several contexts: The following are organisations, institutions, and places in Melbourne, Australia: Royal Melbourne Golf Club; Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne; Royal Melbourne Hospital; Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron; Royal Melbourne Philharmonic; Melbourne Royal Show, formerly the Royal Melbourne Show
In 1882 Lord Normanby, the Governor of Victoria, opened the court of the Royal Melbourne Tennis Club at 343 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, just north of La Trobe St.This building originally consisted of a real tennis court and club rooms, but later included squash courts (said to have been Australia's first) and an indoor swimming pool.
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Green, John (2011), The Royal Melbourne Golf Club, History of the Courses. ISBN 978-0-646-55588-1. Muirhead, Desmond (July 1995), "Symbols in Golf Course Architecture" in Executive Golfer. "Alister MacKenzie Links Designer, Dies; Golfers Have Praised Famous Courses Laid Out by Him in America and Scotland". The New York Times. 7 January 1934. p. 31.
Storey Hall, located at 342–344 Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia, is part of the RMIT City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University). It consists of a grand meeting hall constructed in 1887, extended and renovated in 1996, providing a large upper hall, the lower hall as home to RMIT Gallery First Site, and ...