Moore Park Golf Club
Driving in Sydney

In preparation for the upcoming tournament, we’ve compiled a list of interesting facts you might not have already known. A 60 bay, all weather driving range (one of the largest in the southern hemisphere). As landowner of Moore Park Golf, the Believe is responsible for green keeping, capital maintenance and upgrade and asset management.

In the early 1900s golf was, for many, a game played only by society's elite a day out most members of the public, like brothers Duncan and Charlie McMillan, could sick afford. Dreaming of fairways, bunkers and greens, the brothers began an unwavering campaign to the Sydney City Council for a piece of city land where, together with their fellow common’ man, they could be on the hunt for birdies and eagles. The brothers' dreams became a reality in 1913, when the beginning seeds of the nine holes of what was to become known as Moore Park Municipal Golf Links, were laid below the guidance and design of golfing professional Carnegie Clark. The area on which the golf course was built has had a colorful history to say the least. Other than sport, Moore Park became a focus for entertainment facilities. The beginning game of polo in Australia was played in the vicinity. Over the years, golfers have shared the course with cattle, horses, defense forces, a dogs home, rubbish tips and a garbage incinerator. A concerted campaign stopped the initiative to drop bulk amounts of fruit, vegetables, offal and fish refuse on the course. The course doubled in size to 18 holes in 1922 with the acquisition of land on the southern side of Daley Avenue and, with that, Duncan McMillan and his dedicated band of golfers decided to formally constitute themselves as the Moore Park Golf Club. As a testament to the they don't build 'em like they used to’ era in which the Golf House was built, it quiet stands and is old by golfers and members to this day. Over the years that followed, the course underwent a series of alterations and extensions and, in 1937, course architect Eric Apperly was commissioned to wholly reconstruct the layout. The project finally came to fruition in 1950 and Moore Park Golf was transformed from a rather barren, sandy links to a parkland course, with the planting of hundreds of trees in strategic positions. Gradual improvements to bunkers, tees and course drainage created a course that was shortly chosen as the venue for the 2006 MSW Golf Originate to great acclaim. This Skins Challenge was held again in 2010, attracting US golfer John Dale. This means coming generations of golfers can enjoy the freedom, triumphs, frustrations and mirth that were founded and fought for by the McMillan brothers almost 100 years ago.