Royal Adelaide Golf Club
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    Rank
    9
    • Par 72
    • 18 holes

Royal Adelaide Golf Club

The Royal Adelaide Golf Club was founded in 1892. In 1906 they moved from Glenelg to Seaton, where the course was laid out around the edge of sand dunes about a mile from the shore. In 1923 the club received their Royal title. During the early years the fragrant pine trees were planted.

A unique feature of the course is that the Adelaide-to-Grange railway line runs through it. The line runs by the clubhouse and the first hole and is not far from the thirteenth green.

In 1926 Dr Alister Mackenzie visited the course and was impressed with the setting. "No seaside courses that I have seen possess such magnificent sand craters as those at Royal Adelaide", he wrote [ref: Planet Golf]. He made various recommendations for improvements including re-routing the course through the dunes, making them central rather than peripheral to the layout, and ending the to-and-fro'ing across the rail lines.

Three standout holes are:
- - The 11th, known as "Crater Hole", where the green is set into its own duned amphitheatre framed by pines.
- - The par-4 3rd, of which it has been said that "with a frontal pin (this) may be the best short par four anywhere in the world" [Planet Golf].
- - The 7th, guarded by eight (yes, eight) huge bunkers, is a 148 metre uphill par-3, where the green slopes away from the hole.

The Royal Adelaide Golf Club has hosted many major tournaments over the years, including the Australian Open nine times, the Australian Amateur Championships 16 times, and the Australian Ladies Amateur and Open Championships. In 2017 the club hosted the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open.

The Royal Adelaide Golf Course is an 18 hole championship open-links-style course, a par-73. It is located on Tapleys Hill Road in Seaton, Adelaide, nine km from the city centre. It is a private golf club, however visitors from interstate and overseas who are members of a recognised golf club may be able to play on certain days during the week.


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