YANCHEP • WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Ask Mike Clayton what he thinks about the quality of golf to be found in Perth and he will get straight to the point.
“Had Alister MacKenzie visited Perth instead of Melbourne, we would have spent nearly a century now admiring its world famous sandbelt courses,” said Clayton, Golf Australia magazine’s Architecture Editor and one of this country’s foremost course designers. “There is sand everywhere and the rolling landscape is ideally made for golf.”
A fine example of what Clayton describes can be found at Sun City Country Club at Yanchep, a 50-minute drive north of Perth’s CBD.
“Like so much of the golf course land in and around Perth, Sun City is blessed with brilliant undulation and a bed of sand,” Clayton says.
But it’s only in recent times that its sandy base was exposed to become an integral part of playing the course.
Sun City first opened for play in July 1974 and