Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Royal Melbourne Golf Club is a 36-hole golf club in Black Rock, a suburb in the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1891 as the Melbourne Golf Club and received the Royal prefix in 1895, and it is described as the oldest extant and continually existing golf club in Australia. Its two courses, the West and the East, were designed by Alister MacKenzie and Alex Russell and opened in 1931 and 1932 on the Melbourne Sandbelt, after the club gave up its earlier site at Caulfield. The West course is ranked among the best in the world. The club has hosted many national and international events, including the Australian Open, the Canada Cup, the World Cup and the Presidents Cup in 1998, 2011 and 2019.