MOONAH LINKS GOLF CLUB FINGAL • VICTORIA
Distant thunder rumbled in the sky as the rain began to ease. The sudden downpour had been brief, but the storm shelter found beside the 8th fairway of the Open Course at Moonah Links had been an inviting sight all the same.
The Peter Thomson-designed layout on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula was completed in 2001 and now forms one half of an impressive 36-hole complex, which has been dubbed “The Home of Australian Golf ”.
The links-inspired Open Course was purpose-built to host the Australian Open, which it did in 2003 and 2005, and remains, in Thomson’s words: “A mighty and ferocious test of golfing ability, the likes of which even the top pros only occasionally experience.”
The five-time
