SOME COURSE HISTORY
Extracts from “Hidden Gem on the Yarra” The history of the Green Acres Golf Club - by Brendon Maloney 2012.
The official opening of our course by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Dallas Brooks, was on 16 December 1950.
It is said that the more things change, the more they remain the same. The course at Green Acres has undergone 60 years
of extensive renovation and redesign but the basic layout has changed little.
The vision of Gordon Bernard Oliver
Green acres was probably the last course designed by Gordon Bernard Oliver, while Peninsula was his first. In between he did the
original layouts of Long Island, Olinda, Patterson River and Emerald and in 1929 put forward plans for a lavish golf resort at Bridport
in Tasmania, which did not eventuate.
In 1948 Gordon Bernard Oliver, the designer, put forward his proposal for a par 73 course of 5764 metres/ 6244 yards. Six
decades later it plays to a par of 71 and is fractionally longer at 5935 metres/6430 yards.
It is possible he did other work between Peninsula in 1922 and Green Acres in 1948, but