Locals are well aware of Bairnsdale’s enviable year-round conditioning and interesting variation of holes, some of which make you feel as though you’re on a Melbourne Sandbelt course. But has the course captured the attention of city golfers? Not so much.
Discussions amongst Melbourne golfers about where to play golf in Gippsland often throw up Lakes Entrance and Leongatha as the must-play layouts and Bairnsdale – more than three and a half hour’s drive east of Melbourne – is too often forgotten.
However, that is changing.
“I don’t think there’s a poor hole,” Bairnsdale General Manager, Jeff Graham, said.
“It’s an even, consistent layout that is going to test most golfers when they come and play here. It’s not overly long. You’ll generally come up with a good lie in the bunkers and then some of those holes you stand on,…