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After 40 Years, Club Rooms For All Golfers At Olinda Golf Course

The Olinda Golf Course in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges can now offer free club room facilities to visiting golf clubs and groups now that the golf course has taken on management of the club rooms.

By Olinda Golf Course - 26th August 2009 - Back to News

The club rooms on the golf course have great facilities such as BBQ’s and meeting rooms which will be made available to golfers and other groups.

"It’s a great facility for the public to have access to" said Trish Jonescu the manager of the golf course. "It’s about time that the facility with lockers, showers, kitchen and bar were made available to all golfers who use the public golf course."

Since the club abandoned the golf course we have been getting lots of phone calls asking if the golf course is still open Trish said.

"I don’t think a lot of people realise that the Olinda Golf Course is a public golf course and is open to everyone. The café and golf course are both open seven days a week."

Trish only took on the golf course after seeing the golf course in total disrepair saying "I could never understand why the golf club which has now disbanded didn’t look after the course or put any effort into its maintenance. One of the top three country golf courses in Victoria is totally run by volunteers."

Olinda is definitely a golf course for fit players. There are still groups of senior players with season tickets who play the course every week, but the seniors usually play a composite course which avoids the hill climbs.

Ian Stevens a regular visitor to the Olinda Golf Course claims that the improvements to the golf course over the last twelve months are fantastic saying "two years ago the back nine holes had been closed and there were twenty-one trees down over the golf course".

This year the golf course had a number of requests to use the club rooms. Oxfam wanted to offer showers and rest rooms for people participating in their annual Trail Walk through the Dandenong Ranges. Also a number of sports clubs and social golf clubs wanted the rooms for fund raising golf days. Now Olinda Golf Course can offer these facilities.

Over the last fifteen years the club was getting smaller and smaller so that last year there were less than 12 club members with a season ticket. Public golf courses often have a number of different clubs sharing the same facility. For instance there might be social clubs, men’s golf and ladies clubs all independent of each other. The Olinda Public Golf Course can now look at opening the club rooms for all groups of golfers.

Source: http://gippsland.com/

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