THE NATIONAL GOLF CLUB
If there is such a thing as a ‘super club’, The National Golf Club can rightly claim to be one.
In fact, there are few clubs around the world that can boast as many diverse and interesting holes as can be experienced at The National.
Australia’s largest golf club boasts four 18-hole courses. There is the Old, Moonah and recently opened Gunnamatta layouts spread across exceptional golfing terrain on the oceanside of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula at Cape Schanck. Some 40 minutes’ drive north towards Melbourne is the club’s Long Island course. Long Island was added to the stable of The National’s courses after a merger five years ago.
All four courses are ranked in Australia’s Top-100 Courses by Golf Australia magazine, with the Cape Schanck-based layouts all featured highly at No.10 (Gunnamatta), No.13 (Moonah) and No.23 (Old).
These accolades, a membership exceeding 3,200 and to see the golf that exists there after 35 years, is testament to one of the greatest success stories of Australian golf.
The National Golf Club was launched to the public in a tent at the 1985 Australian Masters by entrepreneur David Inglis. The foundation of its establishment was based on the memberships being sold as an equity shareholding of the club and this model has been copied by several clubs since.
As a result of his creative design at Joondalup
