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Metropolitan Golf Club is hosting the 2009 Women's Australian Open 12-15 February. If you are interested in volunteering to help during this prestigous event please click on the below link for more information.
2009 Women' Australian Open home page |
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World Top 20 players, Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy were at Metro on Tuesday 7 October for a casual game. Both players said they had heard on the grapevine that Metro was in superb condition, and given it is one of their favourite courses in the world they said they couldn't pass up the opportunity to play. | The Metropolitan Golf Club, one of Melbourne's renowned 'sandbelt' courses and widely regarded as one of the finest championship courses in Australia, is a private members Club located approximately 20 minutes from the city centre. Limited playing times are available to interstate and overseas visitors.
Metropolitan enjoys a reputation as one of the best-conditioned and most beautiful courses in the country. Pure couch grass fairways with large, fast bent-grass greens that are hand-mown to the edges of the greenside bunkers add greatly to the challenge of the course. In total there are 96 bunkers and almost every hole is flanked by huge stands of Australian native trees which provide sanctuary to many species of native birds.
METRO RANKED NUMBER 53 IN THE LATEST U.S GOLF DIGEST WORLD RANKINGS
In the May 2007 edition of US Golf Digest magazine Metro has been ranked number 53 in the best 100 courses outside the USA. These rankings are conducted every two years by a team of international panellists, interestingly Metro is the only Australian course from the 2005 rankings that has improved its ranking in 2007 - up from number 66. Just five Australian courses are ranked lower than Metro and two of these, the Royal Melbourne Composite Course and the Packer family Ellerston course, cannot be played by regular golfers.
If you are a member of an interstate or overseas golf club and would like to play at Metro, click on the "Bookings" link above and make a request by email - limited playing times are generally available on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.
2009 Charity Golf Day
The annual golf day in support of our preferred local charity, the Oakleigh Centre for Intellectually Disabled Citizens, is scheduled for Sunday 1 March 2009. On this day the course will be open to non-members and all green fees raised are donated to the Oakleigh Centre. The day will be run as morning and afternoon shotgun starts and as in past years we anticipate the fields will be almost full. Combined with sponsorship on the event by other local businesses, the Oakleigh Centre generally raises in excess of $30,000 on this one day and it is their major fundraising event for the year.
All these funds are very much appreciated by the Oakleigh Centre and it helps fund many of their programs and workshops for intellectually disabled citizens.
Contact the Oakleigh Centre direct for more details regarding this event. Tel 9569 0603 or email info@oakleighcentre.org
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