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EASTLAKE GOLF CLUB SYDNEY EASTERN SUBURBS • NSW

Driving to the airport from Sydney’s CBD along the Eastern Distributor, it’s not hard to notice the roll out of one golf hole after another. You get a sneak peak of The Australian Golf Club. Then, within seconds, The Lakes Golf Club looms up on the left.

Looking further to the east, another private club in Bonnie Doon skirts the edge of what might be considered the Sydney Sandbelt.

Wedged in between the Doon and The Lakes, on a long, narrow stretch of dramatic sandy terrain, is Eastlake Golf Club – a public accessible course for the past 90 years and one of NSW’s most improved courses in the past decade.

A vast expanse of Botany Wetlands (part of the old Sydney drinking water supply) separates Eastlake from

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