The Grange Golf Club has been voted the best golf club in South Australia thanks to a reader poll on the Adelaide Now website for the best golf club in the state.
Thanks to those members that voted Grange ‘best-of’poll from a field of 25 nominees.
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Seaside course Grange gets top honours in quest to find the state’s best golf club
The votes are in and South Australia’s best golf club is closer than you might think. Find out which club has hit a hole in one and why it’s the favourite.
Grange Golf Club has won the reader poll for the best golf club in the state. Pictured is general manager Barry Linke. Pic: Roy VanDerVegt
There’s nowhere better to get on the green than the Grange Golf Club, according to our reader poll.
Grange took out our latest ‘best-of’poll from a field of 25 nominees and it was a tight race with the club attracting just over 11 per cent of the hundreds of votes that poured in.
General manager Barry Linke was chuffed to have taken out the title.
“It’s a real privilege to have won it,” he said.
The Grange Golf Club has been around since 1926.
“We have two golf courses – our western and eastern courses,” Mr Linke said.
Grange Golf Club has won the reader poll for the best golf club in the state. Pictured is general manager Barry Linke. Pic: Roy VanDerVegt
“The eastern course was opened in the mid 1960s and was rebuilt and redesigned by Greg Norman in 2012.
“Greg Norman actually had his first ever win in professional golf at Grange in the West Lakes Classic in 1976, so we’ve had a very good relationship with him over the years.”
Grange is a private members club and is at capacity at the moment with 2150 members.
“Since COVID, golf has really been in a boom,” Mr Linke said.
The top five golf clubs in SA, as voted by our readers, are:
- Grange Golf Club, Grange
- Mount Compass Golf Course, Mount Compass
- Glenelg Golf Club, Novar Gardens
- Blackwood Golf Club, Cherry Gardens
- The Vines Golf Club of Reynella, Reynella
“Prior to COVID we were marketing for members but with people not travelling overseas anymore, quite a lot have started playing golf.”
On its busiest days – Saturdays and Sundays – Grange can have up to 400 people playing across the two courses.
It’s not only golf the club offers, with a multi-awarding winning function centre that caters for weddings, seminars, birthdays, business dinners and corporate events.
The manicured greens at the Grange Golf Club, which has won the reader poll for the best golf club in the state. Pic: Roy VanDerVegt
The golf club also has a gym on site.
Its restaurant Grilled at Grange is open on Friday and Saturday evenings and for lunch every day.
The perfectly manicured golfing greens and array of facilities draw people from right across the state.
“Our members come from all across Adelaide,” Mr Linke said.
Grange is also host to world-class events such as the Women’s Australian Open – which rotates between Grange, Royal Adelaide and Kooyonga.