The most significant change to the Victorian golf architecture landscape has been the expansion of golf outside of Melbourne to the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas.
In the early 1970s the old pro, Colin Campbell, built the original course at Cape Schanck, and deserves the credit for understanding the potential of the ‘cups’ land of the Mornington Peninsula. A small part of Campbell’s original Cape Schanck course became part ofThe National’s Old Course. A decade after he built Cape Schanck, Campbell made the original 18 at The Dunes, which course developer Duncan Andrews bought in 1993 and completely reimagined with architect Tony Cashmore.
So successful was Andrews’ foray into golf ownership and development he found land on the Bellarine Peninsula close to Barwon Heads and hired Cashmore to make the Beach Course at 13th Beach. Later he put together a Cashmore/Nick Faldo collaboration to make The Creek, the development’s second course.
The Beach Course unsurprisingly takes
