FROM BUST TO BOOM
Nov 18, 2020
4 minutes
YOU’VE probably never heard of the Tarnagulla and District Golf Club.
You won’t find it on any national ranking lists. But it is a much-loved little nine-hole country course that has been around for 103 years, with a devoted membership that is growing ... just a handful of years after being on the verge of extinction.
This story begins in 1917 with the opening of nine fairways and sand-scrape greens laid out on a cleared reserve to the north of what once was a bustling goldfields town, Tarnagulla. Today, Tarnagulla could almost be classed as a ghost town: a speck on a map on the
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