The Australian Golf Club
The Australian Golf Club: Carnegie Clark, Jock Hutchison, Gilbert Martin, redesigned by Jack Nicklaus (2013). Par 72, 7,229 yards. Bob Shearer won the 1982 Australian Open here with 287 (−1).
The Australian Golf Club: Carnegie Clark, Jock Hutchison, Gilbert Martin, redesigned by Jack Nicklaus (2013). Par 72, 7,229 yards. Bob Shearer won the 1982 Australian Open here with 287 (−1).
The Australian Golf Club: Carnegie Clark, Jock Hutchison, Gilbert Martin, redesigned by Jack Nicklaus (2013). Par 72, 7,229 yards. Bob Shearer won the 1982 Australian Open here with 287 (−1).
Updated October 24, 2026
24 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Ashleigh Buhai | 280 (−9) | WPGA Tour of Australasia |
| 1975 | JoAnne Carner | 228 | ALPG Tour |
PGA Tour of Australasia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Bob Shearer | 287 (−1) | by 4 strokes |
| 1978 | Jack Nicklaus | 284 (−4) | by 6 strokes |
| 1977 | David Graham | 284 (−4) | by 3 strokes |
| 1976 | Jack Nicklaus | 286 (−2) | by 4 strokes |
| 1975 | Jack Nicklaus | 279 (−9) | lowest winning score in this event · by 3 strokes |
PGA Tour of Australasia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Matt Jones | 269 (−15) | by 1 stroke |
| 2017 | Cameron Davis | 273 (−11) | by 1 stroke |
PGA Tour of Australasia; OneAsia Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Matt Jones | 276 (−8) | by 1 stroke |
| 2014 | Jordan Spieth | 271 (−13) | by 6 strokes |
PGA Tour of Australasia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Craig Parry | 277 (−11) | by 1 stroke |
| 2004 | Peter Lonard | 281 (−3) | by 1 stroke |
Golf Australia
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 | Clyde Pearce | 311 | by 3 strokes |
| 1904 | Michael Scott | 315 | by 8 strokes |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Joaquín Niemann | 271 (−14) | won in a playoff · DP World Tour; PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Greg Norman | 280 (−8) | by 8 strokes · PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | John Morse | 283 (−5) | won in a playoff · PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Kel Nagle | 284 | by 5 strokes · Golf Australia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Eric Cremin | 287 | by 7 strokes · Golf Australia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | George Naismith | 299 | by 1 stroke · Golf Australia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Ivo Whitton (a) | 301 | by 1 stroke · Golf Australia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Fred Popplewell | 299 | by 2 strokes · Golf Australia |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Joe Kirkwood Sr. | 290 | by 5 strokes · Golf Australia |
The club says it was inaugurated in 1882 and is the oldest golf club in the Commonwealth; Wikipedia notes it had no course from 1888 to 1895, which fuels the debate with Royal Melbourne (1891).
Source: The Australian Golf Club guests page · Wikipedia: The Australian Golf Club
The club's first course at Moore Park was lost to a new road in 1888; it played an 11-hole course at Waverley from 1895, then Botany, which hosted the first Australian Open in 1904, before settling at its present Rosebery site.
Players must enter and leave bunkers at the low points marked with a painted green T, and leave the rake there with its handle sticking out of the bunker.
In his late-1970s redesign Nicklaus combined the original par-4 10th and short 11th into the par-5 opener, now 461 m from the tips; it is played as a par 4 in the Australian Open.
Source: Golf Australia: Review - The Australian Golf Club (2024-11-19)
Each nine ends with a series of adjacent long holes running back and forth to make the most of the seasonal winds; the 7th to 9th are three long two-shotters to small greens guarded by ponds.
The par-5 18th (486 m from the back) ends at a deep three-level green on the edge of a lake within view of the clubhouse; Golf Australia notes Joaquin Niemann hit an 8-iron there in 2023, five clubs less than Bob Shearer's 3-iron in 1982.
Source: Golf Australia: Review - The Australian Golf Club (2024-11-19)
Asked to update holes on the course
New layout approved by members giving the club two starting holes
Redesign completed after a proposed road threatened the course (1967)
1977-1980 significant alterations adding length and water hazards
Renovation (re-routing of several holes); club calls the course a Jack Nicklaus Signature Design renovated in 2013
Source: The Australian Golf Club guests page · Wikipedia: The Australian Golf Club
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | ISPS Handa Australian Open 30 November – 3 December 2023 | Joaquín Niemann | DP World Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
Data: the-australian-golf-club.json. Spot an error? See corrections.