South Broken Hill Golf Club

Offer:

2 for 1 Green Fee - Valid 7 Days

Address: 1 South St Broken Hill New South Wales 2880
Phone: 08 8087 4639

Measures 6154m Par 72 with four par 3s ranging from 125-184m, ten par 4s ranging from 339-395m and four par 5s ranging from 447-501m.

Course has flat wide couch fairways and large flat teebeds with anything off the fairways running into red dirt with desert scrubs and flowers. The course has a short tree-lined fairway layout with medium sized bent grass greens which play slow and currently have dead patches over most portions of the greens. There are 46 bunkers on the entire course which have a thin covering of red clay-like sand.

Highlights include: the most heavily bunkered hole on the course the 343m straight 1st (index 9) with an elevated tee and 2 fairway bunkers on the left with another 3 bunkers around the green; the 395m slight dogleg left 4th (index 1) with a dry water hazard across the fairway from 100-120m out of the green with a long bunker 20-80m short of the green; the 501m slightly uphill 7th (index 5) with an L-shaped bunker on the left off the tee, an OOB fence far right and a green guarded by 2 bunkers shortside; the 184m 8th (index 7) with an elevated teebed to a green guarded by 3 bunkers along the leftside; the 339m slight dogleg left 10th (index 10) with a fairway bunker on the right at the dogleg corner with a green guarded by a pond 15-30m short right and a bunker short left and the 360m slightly uphill and dogleg right 18th(index 8) with a green guarded by 4 bunkers.

Apart from the 7th the par 5s are slightly weak. Most holes are straight and the par 4s are all of similar length. Every hole has at least one bunker which is good to see outside of the metropolitan courses.

Broken Hill is a mining city of 20000 people at approximately 300m above sea level. Rainfall for the first 6 months this year has been 430mm, nearly twice its annual rainfall total. Regardless of how much rain the city receives, the course’s fairways are quite green and uses reclaimed water for its fairways and teebeds.

Played here 19/09/2011 with $32 green fees. The course is the benchmark for golf in Outback NSW. Closest grass green course is Wentworth which is over 265km south.

The course is one of the better desert-style courses in Australia. I’d recommend a round here to anyone but preferrably in the early summer mornings to avoid the extreme heat.

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