Sunday, 11 February 2018

Seaview Golf Club, Cottesloe, Western Australia

 www.seaviewgolfclub.com.au

Blue tees par 71, SSS (ACR) 70, 5564 metres
Red tees par 72, SSS (ACR) 73, 4998 metres





Today was the start of the Australian odyssey - seven true links courses in three weeks.  We started at Seaview Golf Club which is at Cottesloe on the beautiful coastline north of Perth, Western Australia.  The golf course opened in 1909 and was designed by founder members NC Fowlie and Peter Anderson.  A Scot from Forfar, Anderson won the British Amateur Championship in 1893 which he followed by tying for 19th place in the Open championship in the same year.  Both were played at Prestwick, an iconic true links course.  Initially the course was owned by the Cottesloe Golf club which moved to a new course in 1931, when Seaview Golf Club was formed.
A view of the Indian Ocean from the 7th green

We played Seaview on a warm and sunny summer day but buffeted by the Fremantle Doctor, the nickname for the strong south-westerly breeze which blows in the afternoon. It is a nine hole course which disappointingly is not really a true links course.  Although by the sea with lovely views of the Indian Ocean and built on sandy soil the course does not have hard and fast running fairways and has a substantial number of Norfolk pines throughout.  The greens are slow and attempting a running shot inevitably leaves the ball short.  The bunkers are shallow and not as challenging as the revetted bunkers of a true links course.  There are no truly memorable holes - most are fairly short and there are no doglegs.
The par 3 8th

Worth playing?  A fun holiday course if you are in the area but don't go out of your way - it is not a true links.


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