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.
Under the new Government restrictions, we are now able to seat 30 people inside the Clubhouse and 100 outside for fully vaccinated patrons. We are still running a limited snack lunch menu every day and pizza for dinner on Friday and Saturday nights as well as takeaway. We are still operating on a walk-in basis for dining in.
We look forward to being able to reintroduce our Bistro menu and bookings once the 80% double dose vaccination target is reached!
We appreciate your understanding as we navigate these changes 🙏
Hole 12 – Thumbprint
A green with a large indent in its centre, shaped almost as if a thumb had been pressed deeply into its middle. Such thumbprint greens were a common feature of the ‘short’ template hole commonly used by Macdonald and Raynor in the early 20th century, with the best examples found at Sleepy Hollow (New York), 10th at Chicago GC and the 6th at the National Golf Links of America. Three distinct pin positions here, left, centre or right with the centre in the middle of the thumbprint probably being the easiest. Any shot running off the back is punished so the play is to be short.
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Don’t feel like cooking tonight? Takeaway Pizza is back! 🍕
Friday & Saturday Nights from 5pm - 7.30pm. View Menu and Order Online via our website and collect your order from the Bar.
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Hole 11 – Punchbowl
The long 11th can switch between being a par 4 or 5 and plays around the Southern border of the property with views across farmland and the coastal dunes. The tee shot often plays straight into the wind, so this hole plays longer than the card suggests and the large sandy blow-out on the right guards the shortest route to the green. Be sure to check the sign at the tee to find the pin position for the day as the putting surface is blind with just a narrow gap in the dunes as the entrance to the green.
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We are excited to have Allpress Espresso onboard as our new coffee supplier! Make sure you drop in and grab a coffee ☕️ Open everyday from 9am, sit in and takeaway available.
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TAKEAWAY PIZZA IS BACK 🍕
Friday & Saturday Nights from 5pm - 7.30pm. View Menu and Order Online via our website and collect your order from the Bar.
#pizza #pizzanight #takeaway #takeawaypizza #pointlonsdale #bellarine #queenscliff #oceangrove #eat #food #dinner
⭐️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 taken by our fantastic PGA Professionals Laurie and Matt. For more information on Junior and Cadet Membership, please visit our website.
Membership Applications can be made online via our website too.
Make the most of this great offer and help us grow the game of golf in our community ⛳
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Hole 10 – Lookout
Perched on the edge of the 9th dune this tee shot plays across the edge of a deep valley.
The lookout at the back of the tee provides a terrific view across the course and to the nearby lighthouse as well as seeing if play has cleared ahead. Be sure to avoid the trench style bunker on the corner of the dogleg… its deep and difficult and many have unraveled from in here. The green is small with the easiest pin positions near the front and most difficult up the plateau in the back left, corner.
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The roller coaster ride has continued with the announcement made today that all of Point Lonsdale will come out of lockdown at midnight tonight. Our staff are busy making preparations to reopen the course and clubhouse from tomorrow under the same restrictions that we had prior to the lockdown:
- Attendance at the Club only by those people who don't live in locked down areas. Locked down areas currently include City of Greater Geelong (excluding Point Lonsdale), Surf Coast Shire, Mitchell Shire and Metropolitan Melbourne.
- Social Play in groups of 4.
- 10 people inside and 20 people outside the clubhouse for seated service.
Please note that several of our staff live in Greater Geelong and are not considered essential workers. As such the Club will open with the following services and times:
- Golf Shop open from 7am - 4pm
- Clubhouse open for drinks and light food from 11am-5pm tomorrow and then 9am - 5pm from Friday onwards (please note there are very limited staff available in the front of house, so please be patient for service)
- Reception is closed
We know many of our Members are still in lockdown and are not able to visit the Club. We hope you can join us again soon.
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