Welcome To The New Bellarine Peninsula Golf Course
Welcome to Lonsdale Links! The Bellarine Peninsula golf course has been redesigned as a deliberate throwback to an earlier age. Featuring an exciting layout unique for Australia, the Bellarine Peninsula golf course winds around salt marshes and wetlands and spreads out across coastal dunes beside the picturesque Lake Victoria. The par-70 course boasts bouncy fairways, strong winds and challenging green complexes, making Lonsdale Links ideal for even the most accomplished player.
The intention was to create a strategic course, which reveals more of itself each time you play golf Bellarine Peninsula. Drawing inspiration from trailblazer, Charles Blair Macdonald, and his colleagues Seth Raynor and Charles Banks, course architects Ogilvy Cocking Mead (OCM) designed the Bellarine golf course as a deliberate throwback with template holes featuring throughout. Elements of these templates and the holes that inspired them can be found in the design at Lonsdale Links, including the opening hole ‘Alps’, which commands sweeping views over Lake Victoria and encourages players to take on the dune off the tee to enter the first square green. Other inspired template holes include Biarritz, Plateau, Eden, Leven, Punchbowl, Thumbprint, Redan and Road.
Our Terrace Extension works are now complete and our new market umbrellas have arrived! Just in time for a cracking week of weather ☀️🥂
We were thrilled to host the 5th Annual Geelong Independent Secondary Sport Association (GISSA) Golf Championships at Lonsdale Links earlier this month.
28 players across the following Schools competed:
Saint Ignatius College
Kardinia International College
Christian College Highton
Geelong College
St Joseph's College Geelong
RESULTS 🏆
1. GISSA Champion - Charlie Larson (Geelong College) - 74 Gross
2. GISSA Runner Up - Louis Van Ingen (St Joseph's College Geelong) - 77
3. GISSA Best Nett - Noah Schammer (Saint Ignatius College Geelong) - 67 Nett
4. GISSA Stableford Winner - Handicaps 19 to 36 - Tom Greer (Geelong College) - 37 points
Well done and congratulations to all winners.
We look forward to holding the 6th Annual GISSA Golf Championship at Lonsdale again in 2022!
Hole 16 – Road
Either played as a long 3 or a short 4 this hole was inspired by the famous road hole at the Old Course at St Andrews. In theory, the approach is a little easier from the left but no matter where the pitch is played from, care must be taken to avoid the out of bounds fence that sits against the green and the ‘Road hole’ inspired bunker on the right. Although this bunker may seem small, its sphere of influence is quite large, with the surrounding contours funneling many running approach shots into the sand.
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⭐️Have you heard about our new Junior Membership Program?⭐️
We are now offering free weekly Junior Clinics for Junior and Cadet Members! For as little as $122 per year for Cadets and $246 for Junior Members, your child can receive a years worth of golf clinics on top of their Membership! Junior and Cadet Membership is also free for the children of 7 Day and Age 31-39 Members (excluding Golf Affiliation fee for Juniors).
Beginner and Intermediate Clinics are currently being held on Sunday afternoons and are taken by our fantastic PGA Professionals Laurie and Matt. For more information on Junior and Cadet Membership, please visit our website https://www.lonsdalelinks.com.au/.../mem.../categories-fees/
Membership Applications can be made online at https://www.lonsdalelinks.com.au/.../membership-application/
Make the most of this great offer and help us grow the game of golf in our community ⛳
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Hole 15 – Samphire
Named Samphire after the low growing succulent that covers the salt marsh on the left of the hole, this is a Cape style hole where the approach to the green is shorter the closer your drive finishes to the salt marsh. A unique green that is almost square and a throwback to the days where some putting surfaces in the UK shaped that way as a result of the fences used to keep the sheep out!
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Our Bistro Menu is back for Lunch Wednesday to Sunday and Dinner Thursday to Saturday.
5.30pm and 7.30pm Dinner sittings available.
Book online via our website 🍽
Hole 14 – Reverse Redan
A hole designed to sit amongst the old Moonah trees on what was the neighboring farmland, the ground naturally sloped from left to right which we felt was perfectly suited to a reverse Redan.
The original Redan tilted from right to left but a feature of that hole and this one is the green that slopes from front to back. Guarded by a short-left waste bunker and a right green side bunker, the ideal shot lands close to the front edge of the putting surface and uses the large mound on the left to feed the ball down towards the pin.
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To celebrate Melbourne Cup Day Long Weekend, our 6 Hole Par 3 course Mulligans will be open all day tomorrow, with tee times available from 10am!
Visitors welcome - $10 for Adults and $5 for Kids.
Call the Golf Shop to book ⛳️
We're open for Dinner tonight and tomorrow night from 5.30pm with a limited Menu. Walk-in only, last orders at 8pm. See website for Menu.
Lunch from 12pm - 3pm also available both days.
See you soon 🍹🍕
Hole 13 - Long
The longest hole on the course this par 5 plays over a beautiful tumbling piece of ground. The fairway cambers to the right so your tee shot is best aimed a little left of centre. The large bunker affectionately known as ‘Hell’, after the famous trap at St. Andrews, guards the preferred line for the approach to the green. A shot across Hell should finish close to the bunker less green.
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